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Pixelated text on a split background: light gray text on white left side, black pixelated text on cyan right side.

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Pixelated text on a split background: light gray text on white left side, black pixelated text on cyan right side.

Pixelated text on a split background: light gray text on white left side, black pixelated text on cyan right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • text-only layout
  • top-left text section
  • bottom-right text sections

Dense Caption

The image displays two distinct sections of pixelated text. On the top-left section against a white background, there is faded gray text reading "You're my best friend..." with visible pixelation and blurring. The remaining area features solid cyan background with black pixelated text arranged in multiple lines: "because... a friend will bail you out of jail but a best friend will be sitting right AWESOME!!" and "there with you sayin' 'wow that was'". All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a split background: light gray text on white left side, black pixelated text on cyan right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711121504131748241306

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friend jail quote
  • bail out of jail text
  • you're my best friend pixel art
  • awesome wow text cyan background

Visible Text

  • You're my best friend...
  • because... a friend will bail you out of jail
  • but a best friend will be sitting right AWESOME!!
  • there with you sayin' 'wow that was'

Wordwall

  • split background
  • white section
  • cyan section
  • pixelated text
  • gray text on white
  • black text on cyan
  • blocky font
  • faded gray text
  • text reads 'You're my best friend...'
  • text reads 'because... a friend will bail you out of jail'
  • text reads 'but a best friend will be sitting right AWESOME!!'
  • text reads 'there with you sayin' 'wow that was'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711121504131748241306
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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/7a/7a972034e409265d500fa0de24d40ab4a0eec952d8a825abbc7524341220744f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC
Archive ID
7a972034e409265d
SHA-256
7a972034e409265d500fa0de24d40ab4a0eec952d8a825abbc7524341220744f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.194114

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on a split background: light gray text on white left side, black pixelated text on cyan right side.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,300 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 756

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • cyan
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • split background
  • text-only layout
  • top-left text section
  • bottom-right text sections

Dense Caption

The image displays two distinct sections of pixelated text. On the top-left section against a white background, there is faded gray text reading "You're my best friend..." with visible pixelation and blurring. The remaining area features solid cyan background with black pixelated text arranged in multiple lines: "because... a friend will bail you out of jail but a best friend will be sitting right AWESOME!!" and "there with you sayin' 'wow that was'". All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a split background: light gray text on white left side, black pixelated text on cyan right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711121504131748241306

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friend jail quote
  • bail out of jail text
  • you're my best friend pixel art
  • awesome wow text cyan background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • You're my best friend...
  • because... a friend will bail you out of jail
  • but a best friend will be sitting right AWESOME!!
  • there with you sayin' 'wow that was'

Wordwall

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  • white section
  • cyan section
  • pixelated text
  • gray text on white
  • black text on cyan
  • blocky font
  • faded gray text
  • text reads 'You're my best friend...'
  • text reads 'because... a friend will bail you out of jail'
  • text reads 'but a best friend will be sitting right AWESOME!!'
  • text reads 'there with you sayin' 'wow that was'
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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
200711121504131748241306
Archive entry
200711121504131748241306.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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#200711121504131748241306.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711121504131748241306.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016