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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' and two cyan pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' and two cyan pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical text
  • hearts centered below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' in two identical vertical columns. Each column contains three lines: 'ryann is', 'my', 'bestfrand'. Two cyan pixelated hearts are centered below the text, one under each column. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The hearts are simple, hollow outlines with a cyan color. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' and two cyan pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ryann is my bestfrand pixel art
  • cyan hearts pixel art
  • two text cyan hearts
  • pixel art hearts text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical text columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two text columns cyan hearts

Visible Text

  • ryann is
  • my
  • bestfrand

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • cyan pixelated hearts
  • two identical text
  • blocky digital font
  • hollow heart outlines
  • text reads 'ryann is my bestfrand'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902011840551974121217
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
253 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5c09c6f18be3e7702d49f339e097db09286f92a93871c3f6820dee8b18b6371d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
5c09c6f18be3e770
SHA-256
5c09c6f18be3e7702d49f339e097db09286f92a93871c3f6820dee8b18b6371d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073340

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' and two cyan pixelated hearts at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,251 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 672

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • two vertical text
  • hearts centered below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' in two identical vertical columns. Each column contains three lines: 'ryann is', 'my', 'bestfrand'. Two cyan pixelated hearts are centered below the text, one under each column. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The hearts are simple, hollow outlines with a cyan color. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ryann is my bestfrand' and two cyan pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ryann is my bestfrand pixel art
  • cyan hearts pixel art
  • two text cyan hearts
  • pixel art hearts text

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical text columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two text columns cyan hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • ryann is
  • my
  • bestfrand

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • cyan pixelated hearts
  • two identical text
  • blocky digital font
  • hollow heart outlines
  • text reads 'ryann is my bestfrand'
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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
200902011840551974121217
Archive entry
200902011840551974121217.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902011840551974121217.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902011840551974121217.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016