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Pixelated image with yellow text 'friends' repeated four times over a black background filled with cyan and teal circles of varying sizes.

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Pixelated image with yellow text 'friends' repeated four times over a black background filled with cyan and teal circles of varying sizes.

Pixelated image with yellow text 'friends' repeated four times over a black background filled with cyan and teal circles of varying sizes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • four text instances
  • multiple circle clusters
  • overlapping shapes

Dense Caption

The image consists of a black background overlaid with multiple circular shapes in shades of cyan and teal, ranging from small dots to large semi-circles. Four instances of the word 'friends' appear in bright yellow pixelated text, positioned above four distinct clusters of circles. The circles vary in size and opacity, creating overlapping patterns across the composition. No additional objects or figures are present.

Description

  • Pixelated image with yellow text 'friends' repeated four times over a black background filled with cyan and teal circles of varying sizes.

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
  • 200712081701461610694494

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • friends cyan circles black background
  • yellow text friends pixelated circles
  • cyan teal circle pattern yellow text
  • pixelated friends circles black

Visible Text

  • friends

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • 'friends'
  • black background
  • cyan circles
  • teal circles
  • varied circle sizes
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712081701461610694494
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1e/1e0c5ae111b2c3316c9c3bf428b707a39800e2de81b39923b86e2bb64f715341.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
1e0c5ae111b2c331
SHA-256
1e0c5ae111b2c3316c9c3bf428b707a39800e2de81b39923b86e2bb64f715341
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.064143

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with yellow text 'friends' repeated four times over a black background filled with cyan and teal circles of varying sizes.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,035 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • circles (object, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • cyan
  • teal

Composition

  • four text instances
  • multiple circle clusters
  • overlapping shapes

Dense Caption

The image consists of a black background overlaid with multiple circular shapes in shades of cyan and teal, ranging from small dots to large semi-circles. Four instances of the word 'friends' appear in bright yellow pixelated text, positioned above four distinct clusters of circles. The circles vary in size and opacity, creating overlapping patterns across the composition. No additional objects or figures are present.

Description

  • Pixelated image with yellow text 'friends' repeated four times over a black background filled with cyan and teal circles of varying sizes.

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
  • 200712081701461610694494

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • friends cyan circles black background
  • yellow text friends pixelated circles
  • cyan teal circle pattern yellow text
  • pixelated friends circles black

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • friends

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • 'friends'
  • black background
  • cyan circles
  • teal circles
  • varied circle sizes
  • pixelated style
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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
200712081701461610694494
Archive entry
200712081701461610694494.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#200712081701461610694494.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712081701461610694494.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016