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Red background with four instances of the word 'friends' in black pixelated text and three white/pink heart icons.

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Red background with four instances of the word 'friends' in black pixelated text and three white/pink heart icons.

Red background with four instances of the word 'friends' in black pixelated text and three white/pink heart icons. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four 'friends' words
  • three hearts positioned at center-top, right-center, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical black pixelated 'friends' words: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Three pixelated hearts: one white centered above middle-bottom, one light pink right of center-top, one light pink bottom-right corner. All text and symbols are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Red background with four instances of the word 'friends' in black pixelated text and three white/pink heart icons.

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
  • 200904040958181784475681

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background friends hearts pixelated
  • friends text white pink hearts red
  • pixelated friends hearts red background
  • four friends words three hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four 'friends' words arranged in grid

Visible Text

  • friends

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black 'friends' text
  • white heart icon
  • pink heart icons
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904040958181784475681
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
270 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/624fa7069109a3ac6d48e79f111690b52f86697e8666629fb1b3680033a58f83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
624fa7069109a3ac
SHA-256
624fa7069109a3ac6d48e79f111690b52f86697e8666629fb1b3680033a58f83
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116410

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with four instances of the word 'friends' in black pixelated text and three white/pink heart icons.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,407 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 598

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • four 'friends' words
  • three hearts positioned at center-top, right-center, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical black pixelated 'friends' words: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Three pixelated hearts: one white centered above middle-bottom, one light pink right of center-top, one light pink bottom-right corner. All text and symbols are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Red background with four instances of the word 'friends' in black pixelated text and three white/pink heart icons.

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
  • 200904040958181784475681

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background friends hearts pixelated
  • friends text white pink hearts red
  • pixelated friends hearts red background
  • four friends words three hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four 'friends' words arranged in grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • friends

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black 'friends' text
  • white heart icon
  • pink heart icons
  • pixelated style
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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
200904040958181784475681
Archive entry
200904040958181784475681.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200904040958181784475681.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904040958181784475681.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016