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Four identical pixelated text arranged in a , each displaying white text on varying dark backgrounds

Four identical pixelated text arranged in a , each displaying white text on varying dark backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Composition

  • identical content
  • varied background colors per

Dense Caption

<p>Four distinct background colors: top-left black, top-right deep blue, bottom-left bright blue, bottom-right very dark blue. Each panel contains the same white pixelated text: "b & a.l = my bffs they r lik fam <3 2 death". Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays. The phrase "<3 2 death" includes an emoticon symbol and numeric character. All four panels share identical content but differ in background hue.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated text arranged in a , each displaying white text on varying dark backgrounds

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
  • 20071118203013363769162

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • b & a.l = my bffs they r lik fam <3 2 death
  • pixelated text four
  • black deep blue bright blue very dark blue backgrounds

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated text panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each displaying white text on varying dark backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: varied background colors per panel
  • quarantined composition: identical content across panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text four panels

Visible Text

  • b & a.l
  • = my bffs
  • they r
  • lik fam
  • <3 2 death

Wordwall

  • four
  • black background
  • deep blue background
  • bright blue background
  • very dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • b & a.l = my bffs they r lik fam <3 2 death
  • <3 emoticon symbol
  • numeric character '2'
  • blocky font

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071118203013363769162
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7c/7c72aa17c9765eb2d799344fe2fdc482a34781e39ecd3d82094e9b98bc349906.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
7c72aa17c9765eb2
SHA-256
7c72aa17c9765eb2d799344fe2fdc482a34781e39ecd3d82094e9b98bc349906
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 20:14 UTC
Run
1222
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004815

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July 23, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
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Four identical pixelated text arranged in a , each displaying white text on varying dark backgrounds

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,544 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 708

Review tags

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  • white

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Dense Caption

<p>Four distinct background colors: top-left black, top-right deep blue, bottom-left bright blue, bottom-right very dark blue. Each panel contains the same white pixelated text: "b & a.l = my bffs they r lik fam <3 2 death". Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays. The phrase "<3 2 death" includes an emoticon symbol and numeric character. All four panels share identical content but differ in background hue.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated text arranged in a , each displaying white text on varying dark backgrounds

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
  • 20071118203013363769162

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • b & a.l = my bffs they r lik fam <3 2 death
  • pixelated text four
  • black deep blue bright blue very dark blue backgrounds

Preprocessing Notes

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  • pixelated
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  • they r
  • lik fam
  • <3 2 death

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  • bright blue background
  • very dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • b & a.l = my bffs they r lik fam <3 2 death
  • <3 emoticon symbol
  • numeric character '2'
  • blocky 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
20071118203013363769162
Archive entry
20071118203013363769162.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#20071118203013363769162.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071118203013363769162.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016