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A split-screen image with 'WE BELIEVE' text on the left and a blue background with white pixelated text on the right.

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A split-screen image with 'WE BELIEVE' text on the left and a blue background with white pixelated text on the right.

A split-screen image with 'WE BELIEVE' text on the left and a blue background with white pixelated text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen layout
  • text dominates left and right sections

Dense Caption

Left side shows large black block letters spelling 'WE' above 'BELIEVE' on a light gray background. A circular logo with red, white, and blue colors is partially visible to the right of 'WE'. Right side has solid bright blue background with white pixelated text reading 'no matter how many times they loose'. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • A split-screen image with 'WE BELIEVE' text on the left and a blue background with white pixelated text 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710201636121465555722

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • we believe no matter how many times they loose
  • split screen pixel art text
  • blue background white text we believe
  • low resolution buddy icon

Visible Text

  • WE
  • BELIEVE
  • no matter how many times they loose

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • black block letters
  • light gray background
  • circular logo
  • red white blue colors
  • bright blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • low-resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710201636121465555722
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/29/294da915b51fb0c4a5e2cc0f7b501b9beb8ec1d0ebfd5b27439e1416b2ad7e55.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
294da915b51fb0c4
SHA-256
294da915b51fb0c4a5e2cc0f7b501b9beb8ec1d0ebfd5b27439e1416b2ad7e55
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119024

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A split-screen image with 'WE BELIEVE' text on the left and a blue background with white pixelated text on the right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:34 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,493 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light gray
  • red
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • split-screen layout
  • text dominates left and right sections

Dense Caption

Left side shows large black block letters spelling 'WE' above 'BELIEVE' on a light gray background. A circular logo with red, white, and blue colors is partially visible to the right of 'WE'. Right side has solid bright blue background with white pixelated text reading 'no matter how many times they loose'. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • A split-screen image with 'WE BELIEVE' text on the left and a blue background with white pixelated text 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710201636121465555722

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • we believe no matter how many times they loose
  • split screen pixel art text
  • blue background white text we believe
  • low resolution buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • WE
  • BELIEVE
  • no matter how many times they loose

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • black block letters
  • light gray background
  • circular logo
  • red white blue colors
  • bright blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • low-resolution pixel art
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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
200710201636121465555722
Archive entry
200710201636121465555722.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710201636121465555722.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710201636121465555722.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016