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Red background with black text reading "OMG school starts on Sept 5" and a white plus sign that changes to a star, then an X, then a period, then a colon, then a dot, then a comma, then a series of dots.

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Red background with black text reading "OMG school starts on Sept 5" and a white plus sign that changes to a star, then an X, then a period, then a colon, then a dot, then a comma, then a series of dots.

Red background with black text reading "OMG school starts on Sept 5" and a white plus sign that changes to a star, then an X, then a period, then a colon, then a dot, then a comma…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • plus sign changes across observations

Animation Summary

The white plus sign next to "Sept 5" changes sequentially across observations: plus sign → plus sign with star → plus sign with X → plus sign with period → plus sign with colon → plus sign with dot → plus sign with comma → plus sign with multiple dots.

Composition

  • text centered
  • plus sign to right of "Sept 5"

Dense Caption

Red background with black text "OMG school starts on Sept 5" in pixelated font. White plus sign next to "Sept 5" changes across observations: first plus sign, then plus sign with star, then plus sign with X, then plus sign with period, then plus sign with colon, then plus sign with dot, then plus sign with comma, then plus sign with multiple dots. Text remains consistent across all observations. Pixelated rendering style. No other visual elements present.

Description

Red background with black text reading "OMG school starts on Sept 5" and a white plus sign that changes to a star, then an X, then a period, then a colon, then a dot, then a comma, then a series of dots.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • 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
  • 20070829150820595686680

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text OMG school starts on Sept 5
  • plus sign changes Sept 5
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • Sept 5 plus sign star X period
  • buddy icon animation plus sign
  • text-based animation Sept 5
  • OMG school starts on Sept 5 animation
  • plus sign dot comma colon period X star

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dot

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • OMG
  • school
  • starts
  • on
  • Sept
  • 5
  • +

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • OMG school starts on Sept 5
  • white plus sign
  • plus sign changes
  • star
  • X
  • period
  • colon
  • dot
  • comma
  • multiple dots
  • pixelated font
  • consistent text
  • no other elements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070829150820595686680
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
516 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
e5e514f4d599a7b7
SHA-256
e5e514f4d599a7b7066d13956283b6ab79e67adfcc06b47a5dcc7b78adfedc29
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096755

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with black text reading "OMG school starts on Sept 5" and a white plus sign that changes to a star, then an X, then a period, then a colon, then a dot, then a comma, then a series of dots.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,528 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 936

Review tags

  • plus sign changes (action, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • colon (object, 0.80)
  • comma (object, 0.80)
  • dot (object, 0.80)
  • multiple dots (object, 0.80)
  • period (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • plus sign changes

Animation

  • plus sign changes across observations

Animation Summary

The white plus sign next to "Sept 5" changes sequentially across observations: plus sign → plus sign with star → plus sign with X → plus sign with period → plus sign with colon → plus sign with dot → plus sign with comma → plus sign with multiple dots.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text centered
  • plus sign to right of "Sept 5"

Dense Caption

Red background with black text "OMG school starts on Sept 5" in pixelated font. White plus sign next to "Sept 5" changes across observations: first plus sign, then plus sign with star, then plus sign with X, then plus sign with period, then plus sign with colon, then plus sign with dot, then plus sign with comma, then plus sign with multiple dots. Text remains consistent across all observations. Pixelated rendering style. No other visual elements present.

Description

Red background with black text reading "OMG school starts on Sept 5" and a white plus sign that changes to a star, then an X, then a period, then a colon, then a dot, then a comma, then a series of dots.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • 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
  • 20070829150820595686680

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • urgent
  • informative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text OMG school starts on Sept 5
  • plus sign changes Sept 5
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • Sept 5 plus sign star X period
  • buddy icon animation plus sign
  • text-based animation Sept 5
  • OMG school starts on Sept 5 animation
  • plus sign dot comma colon period X star

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • period
  • colon
  • dot
  • comma
  • multiple dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static background

Visible Text

  • OMG
  • school
  • starts
  • on
  • Sept
  • 5
  • +

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • OMG school starts on Sept 5
  • white plus sign
  • plus sign changes
  • star
  • X
  • period
  • colon
  • dot
  • comma
  • multiple dots
  • pixelated font
  • consistent text
  • no other elements
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:34 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070829150820595686680
Archive entry
20070829150820595686680.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070829150820595686680.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070829150820595686680.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016