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Red 'friends' text repeated across a cyan background with pink heart and chevron symbols in varying positions.

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Red 'friends' text repeated across a cyan background with pink heart and chevron symbols in varying positions.

Red 'friends' text repeated across a cyan background with pink heart and chevron symbols in varying positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts change from filled to outlined
  • chevrons shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts transition from filled to outlined; chevrons shift position across frames.

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of symbols

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays red pixelated lowercase 'friends' text at top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, and bottom-left. Pink pixelated hearts appear at top-middle (filled), top-right (outlined), and middle-left (small). Pink chevrons appear at middle-left (upward) and middle-right (downward). Gray rectangular shape occupies bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Red 'friends' text repeated across a cyan background with pink heart and chevron symbols in varying positions.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • friends cyan background pink hearts
  • pixelated friends text animation
  • cyan red pink gray icon
  • hearts chevrons friends animation

Objects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • friends

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • red 'friends' text
  • cyan background
  • pink heart symbols
  • pink chevron symbols
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711011857101281578630
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
302 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/21/218d374f1fc93a6cc136e0498917edec329eba6e9ef8b3427839b5a9f163c5b0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
218d374f1fc93a6c
SHA-256
218d374f1fc93a6cc136e0498917edec329eba6e9ef8b3427839b5a9f163c5b0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122112

OpenAI category scores

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Red 'friends' text repeated across a cyan background with pink heart and chevron symbols in varying positions.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:17 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,046 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 668

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • chevron (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • chevrons (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • hearts change from filled to outlined
  • chevrons shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts transition from filled to outlined; chevrons shift position across frames.

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of symbols

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays red pixelated lowercase 'friends' text at top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, and bottom-left. Pink pixelated hearts appear at top-middle (filled), top-right (outlined), and middle-left (small). Pink chevrons appear at middle-left (upward) and middle-right (downward). Gray rectangular shape occupies bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Red 'friends' text repeated across a cyan background with pink heart and chevron symbols in varying positions.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • friends cyan background pink hearts
  • pixelated friends text animation
  • cyan red pink gray icon
  • hearts chevrons friends animation

Objects

  • heart
  • chevron

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro-digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts
  • chevrons

Visible Text

  • friends

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • red 'friends' text
  • cyan background
  • pink heart symbols
  • pink chevron symbols
  • gray rectangle
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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
200711011857101281578630
Archive entry
200711011857101281578630.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200711011857101281578630.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711011857101281578630.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016