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Red pixelated text on black background with gray section, displaying phrases about friendship and hidden emotions.

Red pixelated text on black background with gray section, displaying phrases about friendship and hidden emotions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two- text layout
  • solid gray section in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated text in two columns; left column reads "You say you just want to be friends. but is dying on the inside"; right column reads "She smiles on the outside..."; bottom-right corner has solid gray rectangular section; all text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with gray section, displaying phrases about friendship and hidden emotions.

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
  • 200802211517481109650943

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • two- friendship quote
  • dying on the inside smiles outside
  • melancholic digital text
  • gray rectangle blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two-column layout
  • quarantined composition: two-column text layout
  • quarantined retrieval: two-column friendship quote

Visible Text

  • You say you just want to be friends.
  • but is dying on the inside
  • She smiles on the outside...

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • two- layout
  • blocky font
  • friendship theme
  • hidden emotions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802211517481109650943
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
678 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/249ec2d3fdfbfa04c6c87e2d19513fcd877a64fd16cdcd227d7a3bef1eff06d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
249ec2d3fdfbfa04
SHA-256
249ec2d3fdfbfa04c6c87e2d19513fcd877a64fd16cdcd227d7a3bef1eff06d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.163602

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on black background with gray section, displaying phrases about friendship and hidden emotions.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,190 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 621

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • conflicting emotions (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • two- text layout
  • solid gray section in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated text in two columns; left column reads "You say you just want to be friends. but is dying on the inside"; right column reads "She smiles on the outside..."; bottom-right corner has solid gray rectangular section; all text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with gray section, displaying phrases about friendship and hidden emotions.

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
  • 200802211517481109650943

Mood

  • melancholic
  • conflicting emotions

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • two- friendship quote
  • dying on the inside smiles outside
  • melancholic digital text
  • gray rectangle blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two-column layout
  • quarantined composition: two-column text layout
  • quarantined retrieval: two-column friendship quote

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • You say you just want to be friends.
  • but is dying on the inside
  • She smiles on the outside...

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • two- layout
  • blocky font
  • friendship theme
  • hidden emotions
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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
200802211517481109650943
Archive entry
200802211517481109650943.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802211517481109650943.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802211517481109650943.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016