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Four identical black square with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner

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Four identical black square with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner

Four identical black square with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 G…

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Color

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Animation

  • top-right displays heart symbol; bottom-right displays starburst symbol

Animation Summary

  • The top-right shows a white heart symbol; the bottom-right shows a white starburst symbol. All other visual elements remain identical

Composition

  • identical
  • vertical text alignment
  • small symbols in bottom-right corners

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical black square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each bordered by thin white lines. Each panel contains vertically stacked pink pixelated text: 'kate+', 'tara+', 'cassie+', 'brianne=', and 'bff's'. The top-right panel has a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner; the bottom-right panel has a small white starburst symbol in the bottom-right corner. All panels share identical text content, background color, border style, and font.

Description

Four identical black square with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner

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

  • brianne bff's
  • kate tara cassie brianne
  • heart and starburst symbols
  • pink pixelated text list

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each panel has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The top-right panel shows a white heart symbol; the bottom-right panel shows a white starburst symbol. All other visual elements remain identical across panels.
  • quarantined objects: black square panels
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel displays heart symbol; bottom-right panel displays starburst symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • kate+
  • tara+
  • cassie+
  • brianne=
  • bff's

Visually Supported Entities

  • brianne=

Wordwall

  • black square
  • white borders
  • pink pixelated text
  • kate+
  • tara+
  • cassie+
  • brianne=
  • bff's
  • top-right heart symbol
  • bottom-right starburst symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801051830061092263159
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
402 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41fdba520e091da23570ded58ed887156516d05c0215d9484532a560ce309f20.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
41fdba520e091da2
SHA-256
41fdba520e091da23570ded58ed887156516d05c0215d9484532a560ce309f20
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111381

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.905753onnx/unsafe0.111381onnx/nsfw0.082321onnx/nsfl0.029060
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Four identical black square with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:05 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,589 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 708

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • black square (object, 0.80)
  • pink text (object, 0.80)
  • white borders (object, 0.80)
  • white heart (object, 0.80)
  • white starburst (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text list (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right displays heart symbol; bottom-right displays starburst symbol

Animation Summary

  • The top-right shows a white heart symbol; the bottom-right shows a white starburst symbol. All other visual elements remain identical

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • magenta

Composition

  • identical
  • vertical text alignment
  • small symbols in bottom-right corners

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical black square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each bordered by thin white lines. Each panel contains vertically stacked pink pixelated text: 'kate+', 'tara+', 'cassie+', 'brianne=', and 'bff's'. The top-right panel has a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner; the bottom-right panel has a small white starburst symbol in the bottom-right corner. All panels share identical text content, background color, border style, and font.

Description

Four identical black square with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner

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

  • brianne bff's
  • kate tara cassie brianne
  • heart and starburst symbols
  • pink pixelated text list

Objects

  • black square
  • white borders
  • pink text
  • white heart
  • white starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with white borders display pink pixelated text listing names and 'bff's', each panel has a distinct small symbol in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The top-right panel shows a white heart symbol; the bottom-right panel shows a white starburst symbol. All other visual elements remain identical across panels.
  • quarantined objects: black square panels
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel displays heart symbol; bottom-right panel displays starburst symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text list
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol

Visible Text

  • kate+
  • tara+
  • cassie+
  • brianne=
  • bff's

Visually Supported Entities

  • brianne=

Wordwall

  • black square
  • white borders
  • pink pixelated text
  • kate+
  • tara+
  • cassie+
  • brianne=
  • bff's
  • top-right heart symbol
  • bottom-right starburst symbol
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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
200801051830061092263159
Archive entry
200801051830061092263159.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#200801051830061092263159.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801051830061092263159.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016