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Pixelated icon shows a yellow banana with green stem on left, brown cartoon character with wide grin on right, and 'BFF' text above character against orange background.

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Pixelated icon shows a yellow banana with green stem on left, brown cartoon character with wide grin on right, and 'BFF' text above character against orange background.

Pixelated icon shows a yellow banana with green stem on left, brown cartoon character with wide grin on right, and 'BFF' text above character against orange background. 48×48 GIF…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • banana on left
  • character on right
  • text above character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 16x16 icon features a bright yellow banana with green stem on left side, rendered with blocky pixels. On right side, a brown cartoon character with small rounded ears and a wide, toothy grin appears; the character's mouth is filled with white and gray checkered pixels. Above the character, the text 'BFF' is displayed in large brown block letters. The background is solid orange. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. No animation is present.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a yellow banana with green stem on left, brown cartoon character with wide grin on right, and 'BFF' text above character against orange background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • banana cartoon BFF
  • BFF pixel art
  • yellow banana orange background
  • cartoon character checkered teeth

Objects

  • cartoon character

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • BFF

Wordwall

  • yellow banana
  • green stem
  • brown cartoon character
  • wide grin
  • checkered teeth
  • BFF text
  • orange background
  • pixel art
  • blocky pixels
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803021508491900103645
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/4007064b2fb32df7bf6eb659ae93b88269a1ab751d320ebf7cea0ccc6fad65cc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
4007064b2fb32df7
SHA-256
4007064b2fb32df7bf6eb659ae93b88269a1ab751d320ebf7cea0ccc6fad65cc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074716

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Pixelated icon shows a yellow banana with green stem on left, brown cartoon character with wide grin on right, and 'BFF' text above character against orange background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,465 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 695

Review tags

  • grinning (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • banana (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • grinning

Colors

  • yellow
  • green
  • brown
  • orange
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • banana on left
  • character on right
  • text above character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 16x16 icon features a bright yellow banana with green stem on left side, rendered with blocky pixels. On right side, a brown cartoon character with small rounded ears and a wide, toothy grin appears; the character's mouth is filled with white and gray checkered pixels. Above the character, the text 'BFF' is displayed in large brown block letters. The background is solid orange. The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. No animation is present.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a yellow banana with green stem on left, brown cartoon character with wide grin on right, and 'BFF' text above character against orange background.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • banana cartoon BFF
  • BFF pixel art
  • yellow banana orange background
  • cartoon character checkered teeth

Objects

  • banana
  • cartoon character

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • banana
  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • BFF

Wordwall

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  • green stem
  • brown cartoon character
  • wide grin
  • checkered teeth
  • BFF text
  • orange background
  • pixel art
  • blocky pixels
  • dithering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:38 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200803021508491900103645
Archive entry
200803021508491900103645.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803021508491900103645.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803021508491900103645.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016