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A static image with a light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in darker blue, including names, heart symbols, and a repeated phrase.

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A static image with a light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in darker blue, including names, heart symbols, and a repeated phrase.

A static image with a light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in darker blue, including names, heart symbols, and a repeated phrase. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal
  • consistent spacing
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Light blue background with repeated text in darker blue: 'Katalie Weav', 'Megan Ebui', 'Cici + Samn', 'Trey Blacki', and '=BFFL<3;'. Each line contains these names and symbols in sequence. The text is arranged in horizontal rows with consistent spacing. The rightmost portion of the image is a solid gray rectangle. The text appears in a pixelated, blocky font typical of early digital graphics. The image contains no visible motion or animation.

Description

A static image with a light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in darker blue, including names, heart symbols, and a repeated phrase.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Katalie Weav Megan Ebui Cici + Samn Trey Blacki
  • BFFL<3; heart symbols
  • light blue background darker blue text
  • pixelated font repeated names

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • Katalie Weav
  • Megan Ebui
  • Cici + Samn
  • Trey Blacki
  • =BFFL<3;

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • darker blue text
  • repeated names
  • heart symbols
  • BFFL<3; phrase
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • horizontal
  • consistent spacing
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007081219044586163828
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/6982d1baf3bf02d01d8aceb6ae22be21690cc2801dcbce9a448ee5f6b73c13bd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
6982d1baf3bf02d0
SHA-256
6982d1baf3bf02d01d8aceb6ae22be21690cc2801dcbce9a448ee5f6b73c13bd
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 00:21 UTC
Run
1295
Input
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Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016004

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
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1039
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in darker blue, including names, heart symbols, and a repeated phrase.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:46 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,571 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 706

Review tags

  • darker blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • darker blue
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal
  • consistent spacing
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Light blue background with repeated text in darker blue: 'Katalie Weav', 'Megan Ebui', 'Cici + Samn', 'Trey Blacki', and '=BFFL<3;'. Each line contains these names and symbols in sequence. The text is arranged in horizontal rows with consistent spacing. The rightmost portion of the image is a solid gray rectangle. The text appears in a pixelated, blocky font typical of early digital graphics. The image contains no visible motion or animation.

Description

A static image with a light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in darker blue, including names, heart symbols, and a repeated phrase.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Katalie Weav Megan Ebui Cici + Samn Trey Blacki
  • BFFL<3; heart symbols
  • light blue background darker blue text
  • pixelated font repeated names

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • Katalie Weav
  • Megan Ebui
  • Cici + Samn
  • Trey Blacki
  • =BFFL<3;

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • darker blue text
  • repeated names
  • heart symbols
  • BFFL<3; phrase
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • horizontal
  • consistent spacing
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:24 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
2007081219044586163828
Archive entry
2007081219044586163828.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#2007081219044586163828.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007081219044586163828.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016