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Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a pattern

Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star symbols scattered throughout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background contains repeated white pixelated text reading "Molly & Liz are my BFFs <3" across multiple rows. White plus-shaped stars appear scattered throughout the dark blue space, some positioned between lines of text. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font with consistent spacing and alignment. Each instance of the phrase repeats identically without variation.

Description

  • Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a 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

  • Molly Liz BFFs <3 dark blue white pixel art
  • BFFs text star symbols

Objects

  • <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: BFFs text star symbols grid layout

Visible Text

  • Molly
  • &
  • Liz
  • are my BFFs
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Molly
  • Liz

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • plus-shaped stars
  • Molly & Liz are my BFFs <3
  • repeated pattern
  • blocky digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811201547362032173716
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
678 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/56/56dec1767f6e7346b080b9348f000ba06beef12fc657a388a39a66ae5530d682.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
56dec1767f6e7346
SHA-256
56dec1767f6e7346b080b9348f000ba06beef12fc657a388a39a66ae5530d682
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080609

OpenAI category scores

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Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,714 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 588

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • liz (subject, 0.80)
  • molly (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star symbols scattered throughout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background contains repeated white pixelated text reading "Molly & Liz are my BFFs <3" across multiple rows. White plus-shaped stars appear scattered throughout the dark blue space, some positioned between lines of text. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font with consistent spacing and alignment. Each instance of the phrase repeats identically without variation.

Description

  • Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Molly Liz BFFs <3 dark blue white pixel art
  • BFFs text star symbols

Objects

  • <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Dark blue background with white pixelated text and star symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: BFFs text star symbols grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • Molly
  • Liz

Visible Text

  • Molly
  • &
  • Liz
  • are my BFFs
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Molly
  • Liz

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • plus-shaped stars
  • Molly & Liz are my BFFs <3
  • repeated pattern
  • blocky digital font
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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
200811201547362032173716
Archive entry
200811201547362032173716.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811201547362032173716.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811201547362032173716.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016