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Red pixelated text on white background reads 'BANGING TRASH CAN LIDS FOR AN HOUR!' in bold block letters.

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Red pixelated text on white background reads 'BANGING TRASH CAN LIDS FOR AN HOUR!' in bold block letters.

Red pixelated text on white background reads 'BANGING TRASH CAN LIDS FOR AN HOUR!' in bold block letters. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons, 2…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation present

Composition

  • centered text
  • five-line arrangement
  • simple layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a static 2D graphic with a white background and red pixelated text. The text is arranged in five lines: 'BANGING' on the first line, 'TRASH' on the second, 'CAN LIDS' on the third, 'FOR AN' on the fourth, and 'HOUR!' on the fifth. All text is in uppercase, using a bold, blocky sans-serif font with visible pixelation. The red color is consistent across all text elements. There are no additional visual elements, symbols, or figures present. The text is fully legible with no partial or obscured characters. The image has no animation or motion effects. The text is centered horizontally within the frame. The overall composition is simple and text-focused with no background details or decorative elements.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on white background reads 'BANGING TRASH CAN LIDS FOR AN HOUR!' in bold block letters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): grand-theft-auto-iv
  • collection identity (official; search): gta-iv
  • observation category (official): iv
  • provenance era: 2008-2009 Official Video Game Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2008
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance source-type: 27 surviving exact GIF and JPEG assets from official GTA IV and The Lost and Damned buddy-icon download directories

Metadata Only Entities

  • observation category (official): banging
  • observation category (official): downloads
  • observation category (official): wet
  • observation file-name (official): buddyicon3
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2008
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance source-type: 27 surviving exact GIF and JPEG assets from official GTA IV and The Lost and Damned buddy-icon download directories

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • banging trash can lids for an hour
  • red pixelated text white background
  • buddyicon3 text
  • gta iv buddy icon
  • banging trash can lids
  • for an hour text
  • red blocky text
  • text only buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • text is fully legible with no partial characters

Visible Text

  • BANGING
  • TRASH
  • CAN LIDS
  • FOR AN
  • HOUR!

Wordwall

  • red text
  • white background
  • pixelated text
  • blocky sans-serif font
  • uppercase letters
  • five lines of text
  • 'BANGING' line
  • 'TRASH' line
  • 'CAN LIDS' line
  • 'FOR AN' line
  • 'HOUR!' line
  • no additional elements
  • no animation
  • centered text
  • fully legible text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons

Source title
buddyicon3
Category
iv / wet / banging / downloads
Era
2008-2009 Official Video Game Promotion
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:14 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/342a86594e71da591df08609f0b126598e622773d90266ef2d7e031568bcc012.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Archive ID
342a86594e71da59
SHA-256
342a86594e71da591df08609f0b126598e622773d90266ef2d7e031568bcc012
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 07:00 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000620

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 02:27 UTC
Run
1242
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000619

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.561615

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red pixelated text on white background reads 'BANGING TRASH CAN LIDS FOR AN HOUR!' in bold block letters.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,820 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 823

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sans serif (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation present

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • five-line arrangement
  • simple layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a static 2D graphic with a white background and red pixelated text. The text is arranged in five lines: 'BANGING' on the first line, 'TRASH' on the second, 'CAN LIDS' on the third, 'FOR AN' on the fourth, and 'HOUR!' on the fifth. All text is in uppercase, using a bold, blocky sans-serif font with visible pixelation. The red color is consistent across all text elements. There are no additional visual elements, symbols, or figures present. The text is fully legible with no partial or obscured characters. The image has no animation or motion effects. The text is centered horizontally within the frame. The overall composition is simple and text-focused with no background details or decorative elements.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on white background reads 'BANGING TRASH CAN LIDS FOR AN HOUR!' in bold block letters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): grand-theft-auto-iv
  • collection identity (official; search): gta-iv
  • observation category (official): iv
  • provenance era: 2008-2009 Official Video Game Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2008
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance source-type: 27 surviving exact GIF and JPEG assets from official GTA IV and The Lost and Damned buddy-icon download directories

Metadata Only Entities

  • observation category (official): banging
  • observation category (official): downloads
  • observation category (official): wet
  • observation file-name (official): buddyicon3
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2008
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance source-type: 27 surviving exact GIF and JPEG assets from official GTA IV and The Lost and Damned buddy-icon download directories

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • gta iv buddy icon
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  • for an hour text
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Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • BANGING
  • TRASH
  • CAN LIDS
  • FOR AN
  • HOUR!

Wordwall

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  • white background
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  • blocky sans-serif font
  • uppercase letters
  • five lines of text
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  • 'TRASH' line
  • 'CAN LIDS' line
  • 'FOR AN' line
  • 'HOUR!' line
  • no additional elements
  • no animation
  • centered text
  • fully legible text
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Full source records (1)

Grand Theft Auto IV Official Buddy Icons (wayback-gta-iv-2008-2009-official-buddy-icons)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2008-2009 Official Video Game Promotion
Type
27 surviving exact GIF and JPEG assets from official GTA IV and The Lost and Damned buddy-icon download directories
Category
iv / wet / banging / downloads
Alt
buddyicon3
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Rights
official copyrighted video-game promotional artwork; research/reference only by default
Slice
late-AIM-era crime-game character, logo, motorcycle-gang, and fictional consumer-brand identity icons

Original: http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/wet/banging/downloads/buddyicon3.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20180707192927id_/http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/wet/banging/downloads/buddyicon3.gif