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Pixelated text on dark blue background reads 'me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub' with heart symbol at end.

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Pixelated text on dark blue background reads 'me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub' with heart symbol at end.

Pixelated text on dark blue background reads 'me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub' with heart symbol at end. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • top-to-bottom layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. White pixelated text: 'me &' (top row), 'my besties' (second row, left side has 'esmy', right side has 'es'), 'in a <3' (third row), 'shaped' (fourth row), 'pot tub' (bottom row). Bottom-right corner of bottom row contains white pixelated heart symbol. Text uses monospaced font with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text on dark blue background reads 'me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub' with heart symbol at end.

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
  • 200801191136451224781841

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub
  • <3 shaped pot tub heart symbol
  • pixelated text dark blue background
  • white pixelated heart symbol

Objects

  • <3
  • heart symbol

Uncertain Text

  • esmy
  • es

Visible Text

  • me &
  • my besties
  • in a <3
  • shaped
  • pot tub

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • <3 shaped pot tub
  • heart symbol at end

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801191136451224781841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/54013ae2eab07ef3fa5682d090609c16bc70c0413c01e09244018f747da2df87.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
54013ae2eab07ef3
SHA-256
54013ae2eab07ef3fa5682d090609c16bc70c0413c01e09244018f747da2df87
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081051

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on dark blue background reads 'me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub' with heart symbol at end.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,360 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 639

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
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Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • top-to-bottom layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. White pixelated text: 'me &' (top row), 'my besties' (second row, left side has 'esmy', right side has 'es'), 'in a <3' (third row), 'shaped' (fourth row), 'pot tub' (bottom row). Bottom-right corner of bottom row contains white pixelated heart symbol. Text uses monospaced font with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text on dark blue background reads 'me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub' with heart symbol at end.

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
  • 200801191136451224781841

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • me & my besties in a <3 shaped pot tub
  • <3 shaped pot tub heart symbol
  • pixelated text dark blue background
  • white pixelated heart symbol

Objects

  • <3
  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced font

Uncertain Text

  • esmy
  • es

Visible Text

  • me &
  • my besties
  • in a <3
  • shaped
  • pot tub

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • <3 shaped pot tub
  • heart symbol at end
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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
200801191136451224781841
Archive entry
200801191136451224781841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801191136451224781841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801191136451224781841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016