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Red background with green pixelated text reading 'everything tastes better through a straw' and blue/purple star-like symbols below.

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Red background with green pixelated text reading 'everything tastes better through a straw' and blue/purple star-like symbols below.

Red background with green pixelated text reading 'everything tastes better through a straw' and blue/purple star-like symbols below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the right side of 'tastesbetter' has slightly wider spacing between letters compared to the left side

Animation Summary

  • The right side of the text 'tastesbetter' has slightly wider letter spacing than the left side.

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • stars aligned below text

Dense Caption

Red background. Green pixelated text: 'everything', 'tastesbetter', 'through a', 'STRAW'. Blue stars (four) and one purple star beneath the text. The right side of the image shows slightly different letter spacing in 'tastesbetter' compared to the left side.

Description

  • Red background with green pixelated text reading 'everything tastes better through a straw' and blue/purple star-like symbols below.

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
  • 200802241014272018367125

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background green pixelated text
  • tastesbetter through a straw
  • blue purple stars

Visible Text

  • everything
  • tastesbetter
  • through a
  • STRAW

Wordwall

  • red background
  • green pixelated text
  • blue stars
  • purple star
  • tastesbetter
  • STRAW

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802241014272018367125
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37b68f77156f43a15ccf6b843798bb36b6a00471b04c68f96c16359ca27d8352.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
37b68f77156f43a1
SHA-256
37b68f77156f43a15ccf6b843798bb36b6a00471b04c68f96c16359ca27d8352
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088663

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with green pixelated text reading 'everything tastes better through a straw' and blue/purple star-like symbols below.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:20 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,674 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 633

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • the right side of 'tastesbetter' has slightly wider spacing between letters compared to the left side

Animation Summary

  • The right side of the text 'tastesbetter' has slightly wider letter spacing than the left side.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • stars aligned below text

Dense Caption

Red background. Green pixelated text: 'everything', 'tastesbetter', 'through a', 'STRAW'. Blue stars (four) and one purple star beneath the text. The right side of the image shows slightly different letter spacing in 'tastesbetter' compared to the left side.

Description

  • Red background with green pixelated text reading 'everything tastes better through a straw' and blue/purple star-like symbols below.

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
  • 200802241014272018367125

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background green pixelated text
  • tastesbetter through a straw
  • blue purple stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Visible Text

  • everything
  • tastesbetter
  • through a
  • STRAW

Wordwall

  • red background
  • green pixelated text
  • blue stars
  • purple star
  • tastesbetter
  • STRAW
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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
200802241014272018367125
Archive entry
200802241014272018367125.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802241014272018367125.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802241014272018367125.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016