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Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'my friends are weird' repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered pink dots.

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Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'my friends are weird' repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered pink dots.

Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'my friends are weird' repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered pink dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text blocks centered in each quadrant
  • dots scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background filled with small pink dots. Four identical blocks of pink pixelated text appear in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants; each block reads 'my friends are weird'. The text uses a retro digital font style. All four text blocks maintain consistent positioning across observations without visible change.

Description

  • Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'my friends are weird' repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered pink dots.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801101547511493014267

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my friends are weird pixel art
  • pink text black background dots
  • four identical text blocks
  • retro digital font pink dots

Visible Text

  • my friends are weird

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink dots scattered throughout
  • four identical text blocks
  • 'my friends are weird' in pink pixelated font
  • retro digital font style

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801101547511493014267
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
64d3f9e2fa0bc7db
SHA-256
64d3f9e2fa0bc7dbc722fefea60eca72434e8bfba43ebfc8a758f67c00bf8783
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.173138

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Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'my friends are weird' repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered pink dots.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,214 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text blocks centered in each quadrant
  • dots scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background filled with small pink dots. Four identical blocks of pink pixelated text appear in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants; each block reads 'my friends are weird'. The text uses a retro digital font style. All four text blocks maintain consistent positioning across observations without visible change.

Description

  • Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'my friends are weird' repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered pink dots.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801101547511493014267

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my friends are weird pixel art
  • pink text black background dots
  • four identical text blocks
  • retro digital font pink dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • my friends are weird

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink dots scattered throughout
  • four identical text blocks
  • 'my friends are weird' in pink pixelated font
  • retro digital font style
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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
200801101547511493014267
Archive entry
200801101547511493014267.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801101547511493014267.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801101547511493014267.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016