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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan and pink elements, showing two identical side-by-side layouts.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan and pink elements, showing two identical side-by-side layouts.

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Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • left-aligned text
  • symmetrical arrangement of symbols

Dense Caption

Black background displays cyan pixelated text: 'friends arefriends are' at top; below it, left-aligned 'mii', then 'life', then 'jess<3'. Below that, five pink symbols: four light pink plus signs and one purple plus sign. The same layout appears on the right side of the image. All cyan text uses a blocky pixel font with sharp edges. Symbols are small square-based plus signs.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan and pink elements, showing two identical side-by-side layouts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804301728561077672458

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink symbols
  • mii life jess<3 pixel art
  • jess<3 plus signs cyan font

Visible Text

  • friends arefriends are
  • mii
  • life
  • jess<3

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • mii
  • life
  • jess<3
  • five pink symbols
  • four light pink plus signs
  • one purple plus sign
  • blocky pixel font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804301728561077672458
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
319 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/731d8a9f78563daa6e62dbf330cf994e98ab6342cb0085f2fc73f2054bef96a0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
731d8a9f78563daa
SHA-256
731d8a9f78563daa6e62dbf330cf994e98ab6342cb0085f2fc73f2054bef96a0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156217

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan and pink elements, showing two identical side-by-side layouts.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 10:39 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,381 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 645

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • light pink
  • purple

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • left-aligned text
  • symmetrical arrangement of symbols

Dense Caption

Black background displays cyan pixelated text: 'friends arefriends are' at top; below it, left-aligned 'mii', then 'life', then 'jess<3'. Below that, five pink symbols: four light pink plus signs and one purple plus sign. The same layout appears on the right side of the image. All cyan text uses a blocky pixel font with sharp edges. Symbols are small square-based plus signs.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan and pink elements, showing two identical side-by-side layouts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804301728561077672458

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink symbols
  • mii life jess<3 pixel art
  • jess<3 plus signs cyan font

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • digital art

Visible Text

  • friends arefriends are
  • mii
  • life
  • jess<3

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • mii
  • life
  • jess<3
  • five pink symbols
  • four light pink plus signs
  • one purple plus sign
  • blocky pixel font
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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
200804301728561077672458
Archive entry
200804301728561077672458.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200804301728561077672458.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804301728561077672458.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016