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Pixelated text and cyan stars on a purple background with repeated 'best friend' phrase.

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Pixelated text and cyan stars on a purple background with repeated 'best friend' phrase.

Pixelated text and cyan stars on a purple background with repeated 'best friend' phrase. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical of text
  • centered phrase
  • star decorations

Dense Caption

Purple background filled with light blue pixelated plus signs. White blocky text reads "BOO NEE KAA KOO" in two vertical columns, repeating twice. Below the columns, white text spells out "best friend" but is partially obscured by stars and repeated text elements. The phrase repeats again below a second set of identical text columns.

Description

  • Pixelated text and cyan stars on a purple background with repeated 'best friend' phrase.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803191255232054254824

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background cyan stars best friend
  • BOO NEE KAA KOO pixel art
  • repeated text purple star icon
  • best friend BOO NEE KAA KOO

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical columns of text

Visible Text

  • BOO
  • NEE
  • KAA
  • KOO
  • best friend

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue plus signs
  • white blocky text
  • BOO NEE KAA KOO
  • best friend
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803191255232054254824
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
668 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47611235fe2df1062cd1ed122a5629aa38532309826314e147551c537fdb83aa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
47611235fe2df106
SHA-256
47611235fe2df1062cd1ed122a5629aa38532309826314e147551c537fdb83aa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114945

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and cyan stars on a purple background with repeated 'best friend' phrase.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:17 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,549 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 625

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • vertical of text
  • centered phrase
  • star decorations

Dense Caption

Purple background filled with light blue pixelated plus signs. White blocky text reads "BOO NEE KAA KOO" in two vertical columns, repeating twice. Below the columns, white text spells out "best friend" but is partially obscured by stars and repeated text elements. The phrase repeats again below a second set of identical text columns.

Description

  • Pixelated text and cyan stars on a purple background with repeated 'best friend' phrase.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803191255232054254824

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background cyan stars best friend
  • BOO NEE KAA KOO pixel art
  • repeated text purple star icon
  • best friend BOO NEE KAA KOO

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical columns of text

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • BOO
  • NEE
  • KAA
  • KOO
  • best friend

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue plus signs
  • white blocky text
  • BOO NEE KAA KOO
  • best friend
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style
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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
200803191255232054254824
Archive entry
200803191255232054254824.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803191255232054254824.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803191255232054254824.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016