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Pixelated image with cyan text over a green and blue background featuring white curved lines.

Pixelated image with cyan text over a green and blue background featuring white curved lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • background with abstract white lines
  • no visible borders or frames

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated cyan text reading "they may but they be weird, are my friends" overlaid on a background of green and blue hues. White curved lines resembling abstract pathways or vines traverse the entire scene. The visual style is low-resolution with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with cyan text over a green and blue background featuring white curved lines.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712051815121843466438

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text green background white lines
  • pixelated image weird friends text
  • text they may but they be weird are my friends
  • low-resolution cyan blue green

Visible Text

  • they may but they be weird, are my friends

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • green background
  • blue accents
  • white curved lines
  • pixelated image
  • text reads they may but they be weird, are my friends

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712051815121843466438
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/576969f842e7d66382d8e2af8bbde240863ecb33f1cdacbbfce8881e098a4ca6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
576969f842e7d663
SHA-256
576969f842e7d66382d8e2af8bbde240863ecb33f1cdacbbfce8881e098a4ca6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095147

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with cyan text over a green and blue background featuring white curved lines.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:32 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,485 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 613

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text over image (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • background with abstract white lines
  • no visible borders or frames

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated cyan text reading "they may but they be weird, are my friends" overlaid on a background of green and blue hues. White curved lines resembling abstract pathways or vines traverse the entire scene. The visual style is low-resolution with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with cyan text over a green and blue background featuring white curved lines.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712051815121843466438

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text green background white lines
  • pixelated image weird friends text
  • text they may but they be weird are my friends
  • low-resolution cyan blue green

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-over-image

Visible Text

  • they may but they be weird, are my friends

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • green background
  • blue accents
  • white curved lines
  • pixelated image
  • text reads they may but they be weird, are my friends
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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
200712051815121843466438
Archive entry
200712051815121843466438.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712051815121843466438.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712051815121843466438.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016