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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol replacing 'i' in 'BESTIES'.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol replacing 'i' in 'BESTIES'.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol replacing 'i' in 'BESTIES'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two- layout
  • centered text
  • repeated

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text. Top row: "BESTIES" with cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'i', followed by identical second "BESTIES". Below, two columns of repeated names: "leekie bina", "jessica", "annie", and "luv.luv.luv." in white pixelated font. All text is static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol replacing 'i' in 'BESTIES'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • besties heart symbol luv.luv.luv
  • leekie bina jessica annie cyan heart
  • pixelated besties text black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated columns
  • quarantined composition: repeated rows
  • quarantined composition: two-column layout

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • BESTIES
  • leekie bina
  • jessica
  • annie
  • luv.luv.luv.

Visually Supported Entities

  • leekie bina
  • jessica
  • annie
  • luv.luv.luv

Wordwall

  • cyan heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • repeated
  • names: leekie bina jessica annie luv.luv.luv

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080212122149520446719
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
322 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/55621e78ba73d6f249fcfedefc6d653b97950e687f5be1ea8c4ff494b2a23dc2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
55621e78ba73d6f2
SHA-256
55621e78ba73d6f249fcfedefc6d653b97950e687f5be1ea8c4ff494b2a23dc2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097585

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol replacing 'i' in 'BESTIES'.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:47 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,173 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 608

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • two- layout
  • centered text
  • repeated

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text. Top row: "BESTIES" with cyan heart symbol replacing the letter 'i', followed by identical second "BESTIES". Below, two columns of repeated names: "leekie bina", "jessica", "annie", and "luv.luv.luv." in white pixelated font. All text is static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol replacing 'i' in 'BESTIES'.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • besties heart symbol luv.luv.luv
  • leekie bina jessica annie cyan heart
  • pixelated besties text black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated columns
  • quarantined composition: repeated rows
  • quarantined composition: two-column layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • BESTIES
  • leekie bina
  • jessica
  • annie
  • luv.luv.luv.

Visually Supported Entities

  • leekie bina
  • jessica
  • annie
  • luv.luv.luv

Wordwall

  • cyan heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • repeated
  • names: leekie bina jessica annie luv.luv.luv
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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
20080212122149520446719
Archive entry
20080212122149520446719.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080212122149520446719.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080212122149520446719.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016