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Two people in yellow shirts stand close together against a dark background with text reading "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" on the right.

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Two people in yellow shirts stand close together against a dark background with text reading "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" on the right.

Two people in yellow shirts stand close together against a dark background with text reading "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two figures on left
  • text block on right
  • dark background behind figures

Dense Caption

Left figure wears yellow shirt with white sleeve patch, brown hair; right figure wears solid yellow sleeveless top, light brown hair. Both faces show smiling expressions. Left hand holds black object near right figure's chest. Background is dark and indistinct. Right side features cyan pixelated text: "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" with heart symbol <8. Text uses blocky digital font on white background.

Description

Two people in yellow shirts stand close together against a dark background with text reading "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" on the right.

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

  • best friends forever cyan text
  • yellow shirts smiling people
  • <8 lulas!! pixelated text
  • two people holding black object

Visible Text

  • Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • text
  • people

Wordwall

  • two people
  • yellow shirts
  • smiling faces
  • <8 heart symbol
  • cyan text
  • white background
  • black object held

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709251410441923973001
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
1ffc06db2d231d41
SHA-256
1ffc06db2d231d415b2979f23f97cc747c5bab4b2750fa6fc5d179c90402ecf9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:17 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Two people in yellow shirts stand close together against a dark background with text reading "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" on the right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:47 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,292 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 596

Review tags

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  • black
  • brown
  • light brown

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  • text block on right
  • dark background behind figures

Dense Caption

Left figure wears yellow shirt with white sleeve patch, brown hair; right figure wears solid yellow sleeveless top, light brown hair. Both faces show smiling expressions. Left hand holds black object near right figure's chest. Background is dark and indistinct. Right side features cyan pixelated text: "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" with heart symbol <8. Text uses blocky digital font on white background.

Description

Two people in yellow shirts stand close together against a dark background with text reading "Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!" on the right.

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

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends forever cyan text
  • yellow shirts smiling people
  • <8 lulas!! pixelated text
  • two people holding black object

Objects

  • black object

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • people
  • text

Visible Text

  • Best Friends Forever!!<8 lulas!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • text
  • people

Wordwall

  • two people
  • yellow shirts
  • smiling faces
  • <8 heart symbol
  • cyan text
  • white background
  • black object held
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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
200709251410441923973001
Archive entry
200709251410441923973001.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709251410441923973001.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709251410441923973001.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016