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Animated fire icon with orange and yellow flames on red background, partially obscured by pixelated text fragments.

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Animated fire icon with orange and yellow flames on red background, partially obscured by pixelated text fragments.

Animated fire icon with orange and yellow flames on red background, partially obscured by pixelated text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • flames flicker with subtle motion

Animation Summary

  • Flames flicker with subtle motion on red background, with partial pixelated text fragments visible.

Composition

  • square
  • flames occupy top-left quadrant
  • text fragments below flames

Dense Caption

The icon displays a pixelated animation of orange and yellow flames on a solid red background. The flames exhibit subtle motion with shifting brightness and shape. Partially visible pixelated text fragments appear on the red background: 'c', 'sc', 'a', 'say', and 'wa'. The text fragments are black, blocky, and positioned below the flame animation. The overall composition is cropped to a square frame with no additional elements.

Description

  • Animated fire icon with orange and yellow flames on red background, partially obscured by pixelated text fragments.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • flames red background
  • pixelated text flames
  • animated fire icon
  • red background flames
  • flames flicker
  • text fragments flames
  • pixelated fire animation
  • red background text

Visible Text

  • c
  • sc
  • a
  • say
  • wa

Wordwall

  • flames
  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • orange
  • yellow
  • black text
  • solid background
  • motion
  • c
  • sc
  • a
  • say
  • wa
  • square frame

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081114185848302186800
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ec477acbaef37714aa5f0bac9ecf8ec9e49b465faae21f029e541713de95dd4c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
ec477acbaef37714
SHA-256
ec477acbaef37714aa5f0bac9ecf8ec9e49b465faae21f029e541713de95dd4c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112762

OpenAI category scores

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Animated fire icon with orange and yellow flames on red background, partially obscured by pixelated text fragments.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,343 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 704

Review tags

  • flames flicker (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • flames flicker with subtle motion (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • flames (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flames flicker

Animation

  • flames flicker with subtle motion

Animation Summary

  • Flames flicker with subtle motion on red background, with partial pixelated text fragments visible.

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • square
  • flames occupy top-left quadrant
  • text fragments below flames

Dense Caption

The icon displays a pixelated animation of orange and yellow flames on a solid red background. The flames exhibit subtle motion with shifting brightness and shape. Partially visible pixelated text fragments appear on the red background: 'c', 'sc', 'a', 'say', and 'wa'. The text fragments are black, blocky, and positioned below the flame animation. The overall composition is cropped to a square frame with no additional elements.

Description

  • Animated fire icon with orange and yellow flames on red background, partially obscured by pixelated text fragments.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • dynamic
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated text flames
  • animated fire icon
  • red background flames
  • flames flicker
  • text fragments flames
  • pixelated fire animation
  • red background text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • flames

Visible Text

  • c
  • sc
  • a
  • say
  • wa

Wordwall

  • flames
  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • orange
  • yellow
  • black text
  • solid background
  • motion
  • c
  • sc
  • a
  • say
  • wa
  • square frame
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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
20081114185848302186800
Archive entry
20081114185848302186800.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081114185848302186800.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081114185848302186800.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016