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Pixelated image with four distinct sections: blue-green face, pink glittery background, colorful dots, and a heart outline.

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Pixelated image with four distinct sections: blue-green face, pink glittery background, colorful dots, and a heart outline.

Pixelated image with four distinct sections: blue-green face, pink glittery background, colorful dots, and a heart outline. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlay on background
  • scattered elements in bottom-left
  • central heart outline

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left shows pixelated text 'my best friends are better then yours' over a dark background with blue and green abstract shapes resembling faces. Top-right has the word 'deal' in white on pink glittery texture. Bottom-left contains scattered circles: green, purple, and blue dots; one purple dot displays 'with'. Bottom-right features a rainbow-colored heart outline enclosing the word 'it' in purple.

Description

  • Pixelated image with four distinct sections: blue-green face, pink glittery background, colorful dots, and a heart outline.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • humor
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my best friends are better then yours deal with it
  • pink glitter text deal
  • rainbow heart with it
  • scattered dots with with

Objects

  • heart outline

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • heart outline

Visible Text

  • my best friends are better then yours
  • deal
  • with
  • it

Wordwall

  • blue-green abstract faces
  • pink glitter background
  • scattered colored dots
  • rainbow heart outline
  • text 'my best friends are better then yours'
  • text 'deal'
  • text 'with'
  • text 'it'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802221756031651460250
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4ffc9b07fbdfdcf086fce9e83d8c356404809c03b6db2e1046b9b7daff64f201.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
4ffc9b07fbdfdcf0
SHA-256
4ffc9b07fbdfdcf086fce9e83d8c356404809c03b6db2e1046b9b7daff64f201
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112635

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with four distinct sections: blue-green face, pink glittery background, colorful dots, and a heart outline.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,496 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 731

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • glittery texture (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • rainbow gradient (style, 0.80)
  • abstract faces (subject, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • heart outline (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • pink
  • white
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlay on background
  • scattered elements in bottom-left
  • central heart outline

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left shows pixelated text 'my best friends are better then yours' over a dark background with blue and green abstract shapes resembling faces. Top-right has the word 'deal' in white on pink glittery texture. Bottom-left contains scattered circles: green, purple, and blue dots; one purple dot displays 'with'. Bottom-right features a rainbow-colored heart outline enclosing the word 'it' in purple.

Description

  • Pixelated image with four distinct sections: blue-green face, pink glittery background, colorful dots, and a heart outline.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • humor
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • confident
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my best friends are better then yours deal with it
  • pink glitter text deal
  • rainbow heart with it
  • scattered dots with with

Objects

  • dots
  • heart outline

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • glittery texture
  • rainbow gradient

Subjects

  • abstract faces
  • dots
  • heart outline

Visible Text

  • my best friends are better then yours
  • deal
  • with
  • it

Wordwall

  • blue-green abstract faces
  • pink glitter background
  • scattered colored dots
  • rainbow heart outline
  • text 'my best friends are better then yours'
  • text 'deal'
  • text 'with'
  • text 'it'
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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
200802221756031651460250
Archive entry
200802221756031651460250.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802221756031651460250.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802221756031651460250.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016