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Blue heart-shaped icons with pixelated text over a light blue and white checkered background, showing static content.

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Blue heart-shaped icons with pixelated text over a light blue and white checkered background, showing static content.

Blue heart-shaped icons with pixelated text over a light blue and white checkered background, showing static content. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text above hearts in top-left and bottom-left
  • gray block on right

Dense Caption

Four distinct sections of a single image: top-left shows "Katie +" in black pixelated font above a solid cyan heart; top-right displays "Nicole" in the same style above another cyan heart; bottom-left contains "= bffl" with an equals sign and lowercase letters over a third cyan heart; bottom-right is a plain gray rectangle. All hearts are identical, positioned on a light blue and white checkered background with faint pink dots. Text uses a retro pixelated font.

Description

  • Blue heart-shaped icons with pixelated text over a light blue and white checkered background, showing static content.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Katie Nicole bffl
  • cyan heart pixelated text
  • checkered background gray rectangle
  • Katie + Nicole = bffl

Visible Text

  • Katie +
  • Nicole
  • = bffl

Visually Supported Entities

  • bffl

Wordwall

  • cyan heart
  • checkered background
  • pixelated text
  • Katie +
  • Nicole
  • = bffl
  • gray rectangle
  • faint pink dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710131808471381615441
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1a/1a9effdacc66915ffd0b78cfcc1bd777332f1f7d511fbdfc2e21f8bb64db342f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
1a9effdacc66915f
SHA-256
1a9effdacc66915ffd0b78cfcc1bd777332f1f7d511fbdfc2e21f8bb64db342f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.212059

OpenAI category scores

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Blue heart-shaped icons with pixelated text over a light blue and white checkered background, showing static content.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,733 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 608

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered background (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cyan heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • light blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text above hearts in top-left and bottom-left
  • gray block on right

Dense Caption

Four distinct sections of a single image: top-left shows "Katie +" in black pixelated font above a solid cyan heart; top-right displays "Nicole" in the same style above another cyan heart; bottom-left contains "= bffl" with an equals sign and lowercase letters over a third cyan heart; bottom-right is a plain gray rectangle. All hearts are identical, positioned on a light blue and white checkered background with faint pink dots. Text uses a retro pixelated font.

Description

  • Blue heart-shaped icons with pixelated text over a light blue and white checkered background, showing static content.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Katie Nicole bffl
  • cyan heart pixelated text
  • checkered background gray rectangle
  • Katie + Nicole = bffl

Objects

  • cyan heart
  • checkered background
  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cyan heart
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • Katie +
  • Nicole
  • = bffl

Visually Supported Entities

  • bffl

Wordwall

  • cyan heart
  • checkered background
  • pixelated text
  • Katie +
  • Nicole
  • = bffl
  • gray rectangle
  • faint pink dots
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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
200710131808471381615441
Archive entry
200710131808471381615441.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710131808471381615441.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710131808471381615441.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016