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Blue background with white pixelated stars, two identical sections of text and symbols arranged vertically.

Blue background with white pixelated stars, two identical sections of text and symbols arranged vertically. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical vertical sections
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a bright blue background populated by scattered white pixelated star shapes. Two identical vertical arrangements appear: each contains the letter 'i', a purple '<3' symbol, and the phrase 'my friends' in lowercase purple pixelated font. The top arrangement is positioned above the bottom one with equal spacing between elements within each section.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated stars, two identical sections of text and symbols arranged vertically.

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
  • 200804031707331399035532

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue star my friends icon
  • pixelated i heart my friends
  • retro digital blue background stars

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • my friends

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white stars
  • pixelated text
  • 'i'
  • <3
  • 'my friends'
  • two identical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804031707331399035532
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
614 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/25/2556eed989ff3d9e345a43e53de9b2272d06c8b3ccc629a65a1936bb8e0c115e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
2556eed989ff3d9e
SHA-256
2556eed989ff3d9e345a43e53de9b2272d06c8b3ccc629a65a1936bb8e0c115e
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
0.090995

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated stars, two identical sections of text and symbols arranged vertically.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 22:55 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,054 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 580

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical vertical sections
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a bright blue background populated by scattered white pixelated star shapes. Two identical vertical arrangements appear: each contains the letter 'i', a purple '<3' symbol, and the phrase 'my friends' in lowercase purple pixelated font. The top arrangement is positioned above the bottom one with equal spacing between elements within each section.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated stars, two identical sections of text and symbols arranged vertically.

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
  • 200804031707331399035532

Mood

  • friendly
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue star my friends icon
  • pixelated i heart my friends
  • retro digital blue background stars

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • my friends

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white stars
  • pixelated text
  • 'i'
  • <3
  • 'my friends'
  • two identical sections
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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
200804031707331399035532
Archive entry
200804031707331399035532.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200804031707331399035532.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804031707331399035532.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016