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Green pixelated text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' on cyan background with red horizontal bars shifting across the text in animation.

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Green pixelated text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' on cyan background with red horizontal bars shifting across the text in animation.

Green pixelated text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' on cyan background with red horizontal bars shifting across the text in animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • red horizontal bars shift position to cover different lines of text in sequence

Animation Summary

  • Red horizontal bars move across cyan background, sequentially covering 'BOW', 'CHIKA', and 'WAH WAH' text lines in animation.

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • horizontal bar animation

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays green pixelated text reading 'BOW', 'CHIKA', and 'WAH WAH' stacked vertically. Red horizontal bars move across the image: top bar covers 'BOW' in first frame, middle bar covers 'CHIKA' in second frame, bottom bar covers 'WAH WAH' in third frame. Text remains static while red bars animate horizontally. All text is uppercase with consistent pixelated font style. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' on cyan background with red horizontal bars shifting across the text in animation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710011404401005314131

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan green red pixel art
  • text BOW CHIKA WAH WAH
  • horizontal bar animation

Visible Text

  • BOW
  • CHIKA
  • WAH WAH

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green pixelated text
  • red horizontal bars
  • text: BOW CHIKA WAH WAH
  • vertical text stacking
  • pixelated font
  • animation: bar movement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710011404401005314131
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dc606313dc4e3623f7732f862d2b1ae7a2c8f2c9bef430affc8e6c7652df97ad.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
dc606313dc4e3623
SHA-256
dc606313dc4e3623f7732f862d2b1ae7a2c8f2c9bef430affc8e6c7652df97ad
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088459

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' on cyan background with red horizontal bars shifting across the text in animation.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:26 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,252 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 563

Review tags

  • bars move horizontally across text (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • green text (object, 0.80)
  • red bars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • bars move horizontally across text

Animation

  • red horizontal bars shift position to cover different lines of text in sequence

Animation Summary

  • Red horizontal bars move across cyan background, sequentially covering 'BOW', 'CHIKA', and 'WAH WAH' text lines in animation.

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • horizontal bar animation

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays green pixelated text reading 'BOW', 'CHIKA', and 'WAH WAH' stacked vertically. Red horizontal bars move across the image: top bar covers 'BOW' in first frame, middle bar covers 'CHIKA' in second frame, bottom bar covers 'WAH WAH' in third frame. Text remains static while red bars animate horizontally. All text is uppercase with consistent pixelated font style. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' on cyan background with red horizontal bars shifting across the text in animation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710011404401005314131

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan green red pixel art
  • text BOW CHIKA WAH WAH
  • horizontal bar animation

Objects

  • red bars
  • green text

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • BOW
  • CHIKA
  • WAH WAH

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green pixelated text
  • red horizontal bars
  • text: BOW CHIKA WAH WAH
  • vertical text stacking
  • pixelated font
  • animation: bar movement
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200710011404401005314131
Archive entry
200710011404401005314131.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710011404401005314131.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710011404401005314131.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016