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A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two of three identical icons each

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A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two of three identical icons each

A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two of three identical icons each. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Ca…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two of three identical
  • text below vehicle

Dense Caption

The image displays six identical static buddy icon panels arranged in two horizontal rows. Each panel contains the same visual content: a silver sedan-style car engulfed in bright orange and yellow flames against a light gray background. Below the burning vehicle, pixelated text reads "Burning" on the first line and "BMW" on the second line. The car appears to be a BMW model with visible headlights and wheels. All six panels show identical content without any animation or variation.

Description

  • A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two of three identical icons each

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • burning bmw car
  • flames buddy icon
  • bmw burning image
  • silver car flames
  • pixelated burning vehicle

Objects

  • car

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two rows of three identical icons each.
  • quarantined composition: two rows of three identical panels

Visible Text

  • Burning
  • BMW

Visually Supported Entities

  • BMW

Wordwall

  • burning
  • bmw
  • car
  • flames
  • silver
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / s
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:51 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / s
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2e275ab085d547e8016c3247d0459cbd0169b9556d3306d737b2c6ae69775312.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:51 UTC
Archive ID
2e275ab085d547e8
SHA-256
2e275ab085d547e8016c3247d0459cbd0169b9556d3306d737b2c6ae69775312
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106388

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924755onnx/unsafe0.106388onnx/nsfw0.061738onnx/nsfl0.044650
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two of three identical icons each

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,692 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,157, response 614

Review tags

  • burning (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • destructive (mood, 0.80)
  • car (object, 0.80)
  • flames (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • burning car (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • burning

Colors

  • silver
  • orange
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • two of three identical
  • text below vehicle

Dense Caption

The image displays six identical static buddy icon panels arranged in two horizontal rows. Each panel contains the same visual content: a silver sedan-style car engulfed in bright orange and yellow flames against a light gray background. Below the burning vehicle, pixelated text reads "Burning" on the first line and "BMW" on the second line. The car appears to be a BMW model with visible headlights and wheels. All six panels show identical content without any animation or variation.

Description

  • A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two of three identical icons each

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Mood

  • chaotic
  • destructive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • burning bmw car
  • flames buddy icon
  • bmw burning image
  • silver car flames
  • pixelated burning vehicle

Objects

  • car
  • flames

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image shows a burning BMW car with text below it, displayed in two rows of three identical icons each.
  • quarantined composition: two rows of three identical panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon

Subjects

  • burning car

Visible Text

  • Burning
  • BMW

Visually Supported Entities

  • BMW

Wordwall

  • burning
  • bmw
  • car
  • flames
  • silver
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:14 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / s
Alt
s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:51 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/s/s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060527214058id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/s/s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / s
Alt
s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/s/s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060527214058id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/s/s7310e77c0b-IMBUDDY.gif