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Blue background with red text repeating '4t friends' and a green pixelated waveform outline.

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Blue background with red text repeating '4t friends' and a green pixelated waveform outline.

Blue background with red text repeating '4t friends' and a green pixelated waveform outline. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • central waveform
  • symmetrical segments

Dense Caption

Blue background with red text reading '4t friends' repeated horizontally across the top and bottom edges. A green pixelated waveform outline forms a rectangular shape with a horizontal segment extending left from the bottom-left corner and another extending right from the bottom-right corner. The waveform has a gradient from green to blue. The text and waveform are static.

Description

  • Blue background with red text repeating '4t friends' and a green pixelated waveform outline.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4t friends blue background
  • green waveform blue background
  • red text repeated blue
  • pixelated waveform blue background

Visible Text

  • 4t friends

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red text
  • 4t friends
  • green waveform
  • pixelated
  • rectangular shape
  • horizontal segments
  • gradient
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708031134541471550839
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6ab91a3493b4ae9f5a8dd587a0379f330ac8298b100e35a13cdc2255fbcecb92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
6ab91a3493b4ae9f
SHA-256
6ab91a3493b4ae9f5a8dd587a0379f330ac8298b100e35a13cdc2255fbcecb92
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 21:05 UTC
Run
1303
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.001298

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
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1034
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with red text repeating '4t friends' and a green pixelated waveform outline.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 560

Review tags

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Colors

  • blue
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  • green

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • central waveform
  • symmetrical segments

Dense Caption

Blue background with red text reading '4t friends' repeated horizontally across the top and bottom edges. A green pixelated waveform outline forms a rectangular shape with a horizontal segment extending left from the bottom-left corner and another extending right from the bottom-right corner. The waveform has a gradient from green to blue. The text and waveform are static.

Description

  • Blue background with red text repeating '4t friends' and a green pixelated waveform outline.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • green waveform blue background
  • red text repeated blue
  • pixelated waveform blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • waveform

Visible Text

  • 4t friends

Wordwall

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  • red text
  • 4t friends
  • green waveform
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  • repeated text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
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v5
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Error
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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
200708031134541471550839
Archive entry
200708031134541471550839.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708031134541471550839.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708031134541471550839.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016