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Blue background with black text reading 'friends are special especially MINE' and pink star-shaped pixel decorations.

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Blue background with black text reading 'friends are special especially MINE' and pink star-shaped pixel decorations.

Blue background with black text reading 'friends are special especially MINE' and pink star-shaped pixel decorations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six identical text blocks
  • two of three
  • centered text within each block
  • decorative borders formed by stars and dots

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with repeated black text in a pixelated font: 'friends are special especially MINE'. The word 'MINE' is capitalized. Pink star-shaped pixels appear at the top-left, bottom-right, and center of each repetition. Dotted pink lines connect these stars to form decorative borders around the text blocks. There are six identical repetitions arranged in two rows of three.

Description

  • Blue background with black text reading 'friends are special especially MINE' and pink star-shaped pixel decorations.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801041902401709343980

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink stars text friends are special especially MINE
  • pixel art blue black pink six repeated blocks
  • text-based icon with decorative borders
  • friends are special especially MINE pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of three
  • quarantined composition: two rows of three

Visible Text

  • friends are special especially MINE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'friends' on first line
  • 'are special' second line
  • 'especially' third line
  • 'MINE' fourth line
  • pink star pixels
  • dotted pink lines
  • six repeated blocks
  • two of three

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801041902401709343980
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2c/2c4360911aff3ba89b2a21c8ee2054472e6bf025e5ad8724ad3af3fbca86fa0a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
2c4360911aff3ba8
SHA-256
2c4360911aff3ba89b2a21c8ee2054472e6bf025e5ad8724ad3af3fbca86fa0a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100831

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with black text reading 'friends are special especially MINE' and pink star-shaped pixel decorations.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,187 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 714

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • dotted pink lines (object, 0.80)
  • pink star pixels (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • six identical text blocks
  • two of three
  • centered text within each block
  • decorative borders formed by stars and dots

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with repeated black text in a pixelated font: 'friends are special especially MINE'. The word 'MINE' is capitalized. Pink star-shaped pixels appear at the top-left, bottom-right, and center of each repetition. Dotted pink lines connect these stars to form decorative borders around the text blocks. There are six identical repetitions arranged in two rows of three.

Description

  • Blue background with black text reading 'friends are special especially MINE' and pink star-shaped pixel decorations.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801041902401709343980

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink stars text friends are special especially MINE
  • pixel art blue black pink six repeated blocks
  • text-based icon with decorative borders
  • friends are special especially MINE pixelated

Objects

  • pink star pixels
  • dotted pink lines

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
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Visible Text

  • friends are special especially MINE

Wordwall

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  • black pixelated text
  • 'friends' on first line
  • 'are special' second line
  • 'especially' third line
  • 'MINE' fourth line
  • pink star pixels
  • dotted pink lines
  • six repeated blocks
  • two of three
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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
200801041902401709343980
Archive entry
200801041902401709343980.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801041902401709343980.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801041902401709343980.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016