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A split-screen digital image with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols in contrasting colors.

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A split-screen digital image with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols in contrasting colors.

A split-screen digital image with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols in contrasting colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text centered in each quadrant
  • star symbols positioned below text in three quadrants

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background, white pixelated text 'best friends ex-friends till the end', a small pink five-pointed star below the text. Top-right quadrant: purple background, identical white pixelated text and same pink star position. Bottom-left quadrant: bright magenta background, identical white pixelated text with a small black five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-right quadrant: dark purple background, identical white pixelated text with no star symbol present.

Description

  • A split-screen digital image with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols in contrasting colors.

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

  • four quadrant text star image
  • pixelated best friends ex-friends till the end
  • magenta purple black white stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • best friends
  • ex-friends
  • till the end

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'best friends ex-friends till the end'

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black background top-left
  • purple background top-right
  • magenta background bottom-left
  • dark purple background bottom-right
  • white pixelated text 'best friends ex-friends till the end'
  • pink five-pointed star top-left and top-right
  • black five-pointed star bottom-left
  • no star symbol bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070916205444246652676
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
863 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/24575b2774149a18927ef7209c2b02267aa7e74c07aa32cc44a651c865cd93a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
24575b2774149a18
SHA-256
24575b2774149a18927ef7209c2b02267aa7e74c07aa32cc44a651c865cd93a3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.144807

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen digital image with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols in contrasting colors.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,393 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 666

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • split screen (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • magenta
  • white
  • pink
  • dark purple

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text centered in each quadrant
  • star symbols positioned below text in three quadrants

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background, white pixelated text 'best friends ex-friends till the end', a small pink five-pointed star below the text. Top-right quadrant: purple background, identical white pixelated text and same pink star position. Bottom-left quadrant: bright magenta background, identical white pixelated text with a small black five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-right quadrant: dark purple background, identical white pixelated text with no star symbol present.

Description

  • A split-screen digital image with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols in contrasting colors.

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

  • four quadrant text star image
  • pixelated best friends ex-friends till the end
  • magenta purple black white stars

Objects

  • five-pointed stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art
  • split-screen

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • best friends
  • ex-friends
  • till the end

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'best friends ex-friends till the end'

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black background top-left
  • purple background top-right
  • magenta background bottom-left
  • dark purple background bottom-right
  • white pixelated text 'best friends ex-friends till the end'
  • pink five-pointed star top-left and top-right
  • black five-pointed star bottom-left
  • no star symbol bottom-right
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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
20070916205444246652676
Archive entry
20070916205444246652676.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#20070916205444246652676.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070916205444246652676.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016