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A static pixelated image displays 'BEST FRIENDS' in rainbow-colored block letters at the top and bottom, with a gray pixelated word in the middle.

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A static pixelated image displays 'BEST FRIENDS' in rainbow-colored block letters at the top and bottom, with a gray pixelated word in the middle.

A static pixelated image displays 'BEST FRIENDS' in rainbow-colored block letters at the top and bottom, with a gray pixelated word in the middle. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal sections
  • top and bottom text mirrored
  • center text indistinct

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition with three horizontal sections. Top section: 'BEST FRIENDS' rendered in rainbow-colored block letters (B: red-orange, E: yellow, S: green, T: cyan, F: blue, R: purple, I: pink, E: light pink, N: darker pink, D: magenta, S: bright pink). Middle section: a single gray pixelated word with visible black dots forming partial letter shapes (resembling 'FRIENDS' but indistinct). Bottom section: 'BEST FRIENDS' mirrored below the middle section, using the same rainbow color sequence as the top. All text is blocky, low-resolution, and pixelated. Background is white. No additional objects, symbols, or motion are present.

Description

A static pixelated image displays 'BEST FRIENDS' in rainbow-colored block letters at the top and bottom, with a gray pixelated word in the middle.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow 'BEST FRIENDS' pixelated
  • gray text with black dots
  • mirrored text static image
  • low-resolution block letters

Uncertain Text

  • FRIENDS

Visible Text

  • BEST FRIENDS

Wordwall

  • rainbow-colored block letters
  • gray pixelated word
  • white background
  • top and bottom text mirrored
  • pixelated 'BEST FRIENDS'
  • gray text with black dots
  • low-resolution block letters
  • static image
  • three horizontal sections
  • rainbow color sequence

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904080708271472631756
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/3752370e31546cb462ae68035f56d60d1fea20a73704f95029a7bf410701324e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
3752370e31546cb4
SHA-256
3752370e31546cb462ae68035f56d60d1fea20a73704f95029a7bf410701324e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116679

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.883321onnx/unsafe0.116679onnx/nsfw0.073092onnx/nsfl0.043587
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A static pixelated image displays 'BEST FRIENDS' in rainbow-colored block letters at the top and bottom, with a gray pixelated word in the middle.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,863 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 782

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red-orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • cyan
  • blue
  • purple
  • light pink
  • magenta
  • bright pink
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three horizontal sections
  • top and bottom text mirrored
  • center text indistinct

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition with three horizontal sections. Top section: 'BEST FRIENDS' rendered in rainbow-colored block letters (B: red-orange, E: yellow, S: green, T: cyan, F: blue, R: purple, I: pink, E: light pink, N: darker pink, D: magenta, S: bright pink). Middle section: a single gray pixelated word with visible black dots forming partial letter shapes (resembling 'FRIENDS' but indistinct). Bottom section: 'BEST FRIENDS' mirrored below the middle section, using the same rainbow color sequence as the top. All text is blocky, low-resolution, and pixelated. Background is white. No additional objects, symbols, or motion are present.

Description

A static pixelated image displays 'BEST FRIENDS' in rainbow-colored block letters at the top and bottom, with a gray pixelated word in the middle.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow 'BEST FRIENDS' pixelated
  • gray text with black dots
  • mirrored text static image
  • low-resolution block letters

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text

Uncertain Text

  • FRIENDS

Visible Text

  • BEST FRIENDS

Wordwall

  • rainbow-colored block letters
  • gray pixelated word
  • white background
  • top and bottom text mirrored
  • pixelated 'BEST FRIENDS'
  • gray text with black dots
  • low-resolution block letters
  • static image
  • three horizontal sections
  • rainbow color sequence
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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
200904080708271472631756
Archive entry
200904080708271472631756.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904080708271472631756.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904080708271472631756.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016