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Pixelated text displays 'J3ss' with a red heart symbol, followed by '+' and 'T3r3so', then '=' leading to 'bestfriendsbestfriends' on black background.

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Pixelated text displays 'J3ss' with a red heart symbol, followed by '+' and 'T3r3so', then '=' leading to 'bestfriendsbestfriends' on black background.

Pixelated text displays 'J3ss' with a red heart symbol, followed by '+' and 'T3r3so', then '=' leading to 'bestfriendsbestfriends' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered plus sign
  • centered equals sign
  • top-left text
  • bottom continuous text

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: top-left reads 'J3ss', top-right reads 'J3ss'. Centered white plus sign between two lines of white pixelated text reading 'T3r3so'. Below that, centered white equals sign. Bottom line displays continuous white pixelated text 'bestfriendsbestfriends'. Red heart symbol (pixelated) positioned above and to the right of top-left 'J3ss' text. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'J3ss' with a red heart symbol, followed by '+' and 'T3r3so', then '=' leading to 'bestfriendsbestfriends' on black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • j3ss t3r3so bestfriends
  • red heart j3ss text
  • pixelated plus equals bestfriends

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • J3ss
  • T3r3so
  • bestfriendsbestfriends

Visually Supported Entities

  • J3ss
  • T3r3so

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • J3ss text
  • T3r3so text
  • bestfriendsbestfriends text
  • plus sign
  • equals sign

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090428135232662387478
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
268 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66b82df5c92265db5e4b68c5508ea168f4e99d683450805087dd3fba41008288.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
66b82df5c92265db
SHA-256
66b82df5c92265db5e4b68c5508ea168f4e99d683450805087dd3fba41008288
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076801

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text displays 'J3ss' with a red heart symbol, followed by '+' and 'T3r3so', then '=' leading to 'bestfriendsbestfriends' on black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,673 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 630

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
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  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered plus sign
  • centered equals sign
  • top-left text
  • bottom continuous text

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: top-left reads 'J3ss', top-right reads 'J3ss'. Centered white plus sign between two lines of white pixelated text reading 'T3r3so'. Below that, centered white equals sign. Bottom line displays continuous white pixelated text 'bestfriendsbestfriends'. Red heart symbol (pixelated) positioned above and to the right of top-left 'J3ss' text. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'J3ss' with a red heart symbol, followed by '+' and 'T3r3so', then '=' leading to 'bestfriendsbestfriends' on black background.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • j3ss t3r3so bestfriends
  • red heart j3ss text
  • pixelated plus equals bestfriends

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • J3ss
  • T3r3so
  • bestfriendsbestfriends

Visually Supported Entities

  • J3ss
  • T3r3so

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • J3ss text
  • T3r3so text
  • bestfriendsbestfriends text
  • plus sign
  • equals sign
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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
20090428135232662387478
Archive entry
20090428135232662387478.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090428135232662387478.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090428135232662387478.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016