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Blue background with black crack-like patterns, white text reading BETHANY, MARK, and <3 in pixelated font.

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Blue background with black crack-like patterns, white text reading BETHANY, MARK, and <3 in pixelated font.

Blue background with black crack-like patterns, white text reading BETHANY, MARK, and <3 in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Composition

  • symmetrical
  • like
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Blue background with black crack-like patterns. White pixelated text: top row BETHANY (two instances), middle row MARK (two instances) and BETHANY (two instances), bottom row MARK (two instances). White <3 symbols (two instances) appear between text rows. All text and symbols are static. Pixelation indicates low-resolution digital rendering.

Description

  • Blue background with black crack-like patterns, white text reading BETHANY, MARK, and <3 in pixelated font.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bethany mark <3 blue background
  • bethany mark <3 crack patterns
  • blue background bethany mark
  • bethany mark <3 pixelated text
  • bethany mark <3 white text
  • bethany mark <3 black patterns
  • bethany mark <3 blue crack
  • bethany mark <3 static text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like

Visible Text

  • BETHANY
  • <3
  • MARK

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black crack patterns
  • white pixelated text
  • BETHANY text
  • MARK text
  • <3 symbols
  • static text
  • pixelated font
  • two BETHANY instances
  • two MARK instances
  • two <3 symbols
  • crack-like patterns

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811260912231388609193
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51639bbe005c356317bfcd97741f63849c417a74f7a83b1803008bc2c0736c95.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
51639bbe005c3563
SHA-256
51639bbe005c356317bfcd97741f63849c417a74f7a83b1803008bc2c0736c95
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123701

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with black crack-like patterns, white text reading BETHANY, MARK, and <3 in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,561 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 728

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • like
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Blue background with black crack-like patterns. White pixelated text: top row BETHANY (two instances), middle row MARK (two instances) and BETHANY (two instances), bottom row MARK (two instances). White <3 symbols (two instances) appear between text rows. All text and symbols are static. Pixelation indicates low-resolution digital rendering.

Description

  • Blue background with black crack-like patterns, white text reading BETHANY, MARK, and <3 in pixelated font.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bethany mark <3 blue background
  • bethany mark <3 crack patterns
  • blue background bethany mark
  • bethany mark <3 pixelated text
  • bethany mark <3 white text
  • bethany mark <3 black patterns
  • bethany mark <3 blue crack
  • bethany mark <3 static text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Visible Text

  • BETHANY
  • <3
  • MARK

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black crack patterns
  • white pixelated text
  • BETHANY text
  • MARK text
  • <3 symbols
  • static text
  • pixelated font
  • two BETHANY instances
  • two MARK instances
  • two <3 symbols
  • crack-like patterns
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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
200811260912231388609193
Archive entry
200811260912231388609193.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811260912231388609193.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811260912231388609193.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016