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Four distinct pixel art display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray

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Four distinct pixel art display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray

Four distinct pixel art display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static displayed in

Composition

  • four
  • top-left text on stripes
  • top-right text with stars
  • bottom-left text over flower
  • bottom-right solid gray

Dense Caption

Top-left panel shows 'We da Best' in bold black-outlined white letters over horizontal teal stripes; a small white heart appears to the right of 'Best'. Top-right panel displays 'andd..' in similar lettering on white background with pink star above and black star below. Bottom-left features 'u kno it.' in same font over yellow sunflower, with '<3' symbol beneath. Bottom-right is solid gray. All text uses pixelated sans-serif type; colors include teal, white, black, pink, yellow, green.

Description

  • Four distinct pixel art display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811181438492117708503

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal stripes text best
  • pink star black star andd
  • sunflower u kno it <3
  • four pixel art

Objects

  • heart
  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixel art panels display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static panels displayed in grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel pixel art

Visible Text

  • We da Best
  • andd..
  • u kno it.
  • <3

Wordwall

  • teal stripes
  • white heart
  • pink star
  • black star
  • sunflower background
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated font
  • text 'We da Best'
  • text 'andd..'
  • text 'u kno it.'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811181438492117708503
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/07/07ea11fffe942c6540ea11b8f8f9ea299af4dbbe81283537693eebf4170929b3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
07ea11fffe942c65
SHA-256
07ea11fffe942c6540ea11b8f8f9ea299af4dbbe81283537693eebf4170929b3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000095

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 08:59 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000503

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000503falseself-harm0.000486falseself-harm/intent0.000217falsesexual0.000064falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:45 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082235

OpenAI category scores

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Four distinct pixel art display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,026 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 668

Review tags

  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • affirmative (mood, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • star black (object, 0.80)
  • star pink (object, 0.80)
  • sunflower (object, 0.80)
  • blocky lettering (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static displayed in

Colors

  • teal
  • white
  • black
  • pink
  • yellow
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • top-left text on stripes
  • top-right text with stars
  • bottom-left text over flower
  • bottom-right solid gray

Dense Caption

Top-left panel shows 'We da Best' in bold black-outlined white letters over horizontal teal stripes; a small white heart appears to the right of 'Best'. Top-right panel displays 'andd..' in similar lettering on white background with pink star above and black star below. Bottom-left features 'u kno it.' in same font over yellow sunflower, with '<3' symbol beneath. Bottom-right is solid gray. All text uses pixelated sans-serif type; colors include teal, white, black, pink, yellow, green.

Description

  • Four distinct pixel art display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811181438492117708503

Mood

  • playful
  • casual
  • affirmative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal stripes text best
  • pink star black star andd
  • sunflower u kno it <3
  • four pixel art

Objects

  • heart
  • star (pink)
  • star (black)
  • sunflower
  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixel art panels display text and symbols on varied backgrounds including teal stripes, white with stars, yellow flowers, and gray.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static panels displayed in grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • blocky lettering

Visible Text

  • We da Best
  • andd..
  • u kno it.
  • <3

Wordwall

  • teal stripes
  • white heart
  • pink star
  • black star
  • sunflower background
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated font
  • text 'We da Best'
  • text 'andd..'
  • text 'u kno it.'
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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
200811181438492117708503
Archive entry
200811181438492117708503.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#200811181438492117708503.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811181438492117708503.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016