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Red background with cyan text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' and green rectangular bars in different positions across four views.

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Red background with cyan text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' and green rectangular bars in different positions across four views.

Red background with cyan text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' and green rectangular bars in different positions across four views. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Animation

  • green horizontal bar moves between three positions: above 'BOW', below 'CHIKA', and below 'WAH WAH'

Animation Summary

  • Green bar shifts between three positions: above 'BOW', below 'CHIKA', and below 'WAH WAH' while text remains static.

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • green bar position varies

Dense Caption

Four distinct visual states of a single asset on solid red background. Cyan pixelated text reads 'BOW', 'CHIKA', 'WAH WAH' stacked vertically. Green horizontal bar appears above 'BOW' (top-right), below 'CHIKA' (bottom-left), and below 'WAH WAH' (bottom-right). Text remains static across all states; only green bar position changes.

Description

  • Red background with cyan text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' and green rectangular bars in different positions across four views.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070930064502703471370

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text green bars
  • BOW CHIKA WAH WAH pixel art
  • green bar position variation
  • four visual states

Visible Text

  • BOW
  • CHIKA
  • WAH WAH

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • green bars
  • BOW CHIKA WAH WAH
  • pixelated font
  • four visual states

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070930064502703471370
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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
e6cdce45673b815d
SHA-256
e6cdce45673b815d2459aa1cea65c85b95a9c89d035b95d4b37235e3785ed88c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083137

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with cyan text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' and green rectangular bars in different positions across four views.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,993 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 690

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static text (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • green horizontal bar moves between three positions: above 'BOW', below 'CHIKA', and below 'WAH WAH'

Animation Summary

  • Green bar shifts between three positions: above 'BOW', below 'CHIKA', and below 'WAH WAH' while text remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • cyan
  • green

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • green bar position varies

Dense Caption

Four distinct visual states of a single asset on solid red background. Cyan pixelated text reads 'BOW', 'CHIKA', 'WAH WAH' stacked vertically. Green horizontal bar appears above 'BOW' (top-right), below 'CHIKA' (bottom-left), and below 'WAH WAH' (bottom-right). Text remains static across all states; only green bar position changes.

Description

  • Red background with cyan text 'BOW CHIKA WAH WAH' and green rectangular bars in different positions across four views.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070930064502703471370

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text green bars
  • BOW CHIKA WAH WAH pixel art
  • green bar position variation
  • four visual states

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static text

Visible Text

  • BOW
  • CHIKA
  • WAH WAH

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • green bars
  • BOW CHIKA WAH WAH
  • pixelated font
  • four visual states
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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
20070930064502703471370
Archive entry
20070930064502703471370.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#20070930064502703471370.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070930064502703471370.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016