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Blue background with repeated 'BFF's' text and white pixelated star-like shapes in various positions.

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Blue background with repeated 'BFF's' text and white pixelated star-like shapes in various positions.

Blue background with repeated 'BFF's' text and white pixelated star-like shapes in various positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star shapes shift from larger crosses to smaller dots

Animation Summary

  • White star shapes transition from larger four-pointed crosses to smaller dots across frames.

Composition

  • three of text
  • stars distributed

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Three columns of black pixelated text reading 'BFF's' at top, middle, and bottom rows. White pixelated star-like shapes appear: a four-pointed cross near the top-left column (top row), a smaller four-pointed cross near the top-middle column (top row), a small X-shaped cross in the top-right column (top row), a single dot below the top-left text (middle row), and scattered dots at bottom. The star shapes change position across frames: from larger crosses to smaller dots.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'BFF's' text and white pixelated star-like shapes in various positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background BFF's white stars
  • BFF's text pixelated stars
  • white star animation blue background
  • pixel art BFF's stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: bottom row
  • quarantined wordwall: top-middle column
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: stars distributed across grid
  • quarantined composition: three columns of text

Visible Text

  • BFF's

Visually Supported Entities

  • BFF's text

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • BFF's text
  • white pixelated stars
  • four-pointed cross
  • X-shaped cross
  • single dot
  • three
  • top-middle
  • bottom

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20120911052544973080537
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
426 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e905fd5c76ff6ec2427849b8c22fd3513a2e42675bc2b83ed36b815e49a9bb5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
3e905fd5c76ff6ec
SHA-256
3e905fd5c76ff6ec2427849b8c22fd3513a2e42675bc2b83ed36b815e49a9bb5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116620

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated 'BFF's' text and white pixelated star-like shapes in various positions.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:09 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,047 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 680

Review tags

  • star shapes change position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • white pixelated stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static background with animated elements (style, 0.80)
  • star shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star shapes change position

Animation

  • star shapes shift from larger crosses to smaller dots

Animation Summary

  • White star shapes transition from larger four-pointed crosses to smaller dots across frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three of text
  • stars distributed

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Three columns of black pixelated text reading 'BFF's' at top, middle, and bottom rows. White pixelated star-like shapes appear: a four-pointed cross near the top-left column (top row), a smaller four-pointed cross near the top-middle column (top row), a small X-shaped cross in the top-right column (top row), a single dot below the top-left text (middle row), and scattered dots at bottom. The star shapes change position across frames: from larger crosses to smaller dots.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'BFF's' text and white pixelated star-like shapes in various positions.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

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  • BFF's text pixelated stars
  • white star animation blue background
  • pixel art BFF's stars

Objects

  • white pixelated stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: stars distributed across grid
  • quarantined composition: three columns of text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static background with animated elements

Subjects

  • text
  • star shapes

Visible Text

  • BFF's

Visually Supported Entities

  • BFF's text

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • BFF's text
  • white pixelated stars
  • four-pointed cross
  • X-shaped cross
  • single dot
  • three
  • top-middle
  • bottom
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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
20120911052544973080537
Archive entry
20120911052544973080537.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#20120911052544973080537.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20120911052544973080537.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016