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Four identical pixelated blue stars on a green background, each containing text reading "Ali + Katy = BFF!!" in blue and purple.

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Four identical pixelated blue stars on a green background, each containing text reading "Ali + Katy = BFF!!" in blue and purple.

Four identical pixelated blue stars on a green background, each containing text reading "Ali + Katy = BFF!!" in blue and purple. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four stars in
  • text centered within each star

Dense Caption

Green background. Four light blue five-pointed stars arranged in two rows of two. Each star contains centered text: 'Ali' at the top (blue), '+' below it (purple), 'Katy' below that (blue), '=' below that (purple), 'BFF!!' at the bottom (blue). Text uses a pixelated font with blue and purple colors. All stars are identical in size, position, and text content.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated blue stars on a green background, each containing text reading "Ali + Katy = BFF!!" in blue and purple.

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

  • Ali Katy BFF star icon
  • BFF star green background
  • pixelated Ali + Katy text
  • four blue stars green

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four stars in 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Ali
  • +
  • Katy
  • =
  • BFF!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ali
  • Katy

Wordwall

  • green background
  • light blue star
  • four stars
  • Ali + Katy = BFF!!
  • pixelated font
  • blue text
  • purple text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807100600541122944908
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6b/6b7ca13f293c8c8f63b0667dddc085866d760e7abcf878996effc32743435b1c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
6b7ca13f293c8c8f
SHA-256
6b7ca13f293c8c8f63b0667dddc085866d760e7abcf878996effc32743435b1c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129820

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical pixelated blue stars on a green background, each containing text reading "Ali + Katy = BFF!!" in blue and purple.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
3,448 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 593

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affirmative (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • ali (subject, 0.80)
  • katy (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • light blue
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • four stars in
  • text centered within each star

Dense Caption

Green background. Four light blue five-pointed stars arranged in two rows of two. Each star contains centered text: 'Ali' at the top (blue), '+' below it (purple), 'Katy' below that (blue), '=' below that (purple), 'BFF!!' at the bottom (blue). Text uses a pixelated font with blue and purple colors. All stars are identical in size, position, and text content.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated blue stars on a green background, each containing text reading "Ali + Katy = BFF!!" in blue and purple.

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

  • playful
  • affirmative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ali Katy BFF star icon
  • BFF star green background
  • pixelated Ali + Katy text
  • four blue stars green

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four stars in 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • Ali
  • Katy

Visible Text

  • Ali
  • +
  • Katy
  • =
  • BFF!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ali
  • Katy

Wordwall

  • green background
  • light blue star
  • four stars
  • Ali + Katy = BFF!!
  • pixelated font
  • blue text
  • purple text
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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
200807100600541122944908
Archive entry
200807100600541122944908.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807100600541122944908.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807100600541122944908.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016