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Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a , featuring names and asterisk symbols in a repeating pattern

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Composition

  • dotted lines
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a grid. Top row: "Heather*" and "Heather". Second row: "Shannon!" and "Shannon!". Third row: "Aria" and "Aria". Fourth row: "Nicole" and "Nicole". Fifth row: "BFFL'S" and "BFFL'S". Sixth row: "*Heather*" and "*Heather*". Seventh row: "Shannon" and "Shannon". Eighth row: "Aria" and "Aria". Ninth row: "Nicole" and "Nicole". Tenth row: "BFFL'S" and "BFFL'S". All rows separated by dotted lines. Left and right sides bordered by dotted lines. Top and bottom bordered by dotted lines. Asterisks appear before and after "Heather" in the sixth row. Exclamation marks appear after "Shannon" in the second row. All text is in a monospaced font. The image is static.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a , featuring names and asterisk symbols in a repeating pattern

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heather shannon aria nicole bffl's
  • asterisk exclamation mark dotted lines
  • pixelated text
  • buddy icon names

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a grid, featuring names and asterisk symbols in a repeating pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid text

Visible Text

  • Heather*
  • Heather
  • Shannon!
  • Aria
  • Nicole
  • BFFL'S
  • *Heather*

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • names: Heather, Shannon, Aria, Nicole, BFFL'S
  • asterisks
  • exclamation marks
  • dotted lines
  • monospaced font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080713102517792773166
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
4a490780ac612e7b
SHA-256
4a490780ac612e7b17c9681d5b26e20b4cb49ac02cce8ef1c58a9b83a86197ad
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:13 UTC
Run
1033
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Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a , featuring names and asterisk symbols in a repeating pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,283 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 768

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  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
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  • black
  • white

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  • dotted lines
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a grid. Top row: "Heather*" and "Heather". Second row: "Shannon!" and "Shannon!". Third row: "Aria" and "Aria". Fourth row: "Nicole" and "Nicole". Fifth row: "BFFL'S" and "BFFL'S". Sixth row: "*Heather*" and "*Heather*". Seventh row: "Shannon" and "Shannon". Eighth row: "Aria" and "Aria". Ninth row: "Nicole" and "Nicole". Tenth row: "BFFL'S" and "BFFL'S". All rows separated by dotted lines. Left and right sides bordered by dotted lines. Top and bottom bordered by dotted lines. Asterisks appear before and after "Heather" in the sixth row. Exclamation marks appear after "Shannon" in the second row. All text is in a monospaced font. The image is static.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text arranged in a , featuring names and asterisk symbols in a repeating pattern

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heather shannon aria nicole bffl's
  • asterisk exclamation mark dotted lines
  • pixelated text
  • buddy icon names

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  • Heather
  • Shannon!
  • Aria
  • Nicole
  • BFFL'S
  • *Heather*

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  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • names: Heather, Shannon, Aria, Nicole, BFFL'S
  • asterisks
  • exclamation marks
  • dotted lines
  • monospaced font
  • static image
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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
20080713102517792773166
Archive entry
20080713102517792773166.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080713102517792773166.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080713102517792773166.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016