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Pixelated globe image with green text on cyan background reading 'A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out'

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Pixelated globe image with green text on cyan background reading 'A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out'

Pixelated globe image with green text on cyan background reading 'A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • split into four text segments
  • central globe image

Dense Caption

Pixelated globe image shows blue and white landmasses on dark background; cyan background with green pixelated text in four segments: 'A friend is someone' top-right, 'who walks in when' bottom-left, 'the rest of the world' top-right, 'walks out' bottom-right; text uses blocky, low-resolution font; no visible animation changes; colors include cyan, green, blue, white, dark gray; composition is split into four text segments surrounding central globe image

Description

  • Pixelated globe image with green text on cyan background reading 'A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out'

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • globe text cyan background
  • pixelated globe green text
  • friend quote cyan background
  • globe text four segments
  • cyan green blue white dark gray
  • globe text sentiment
  • globe text reflective
  • globe text low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

Visible Text

  • A friend is someone
  • who walks in when
  • the rest of the world
  • walks out

Wordwall

  • pixelated globe
  • cyan background
  • green text
  • blocky font
  • four text segments
  • blue and white landmasses
  • dark background
  • no animation
  • cyan green blue white dark gray
  • split composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708251442301222357174
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7e0b847f120533e2ac012a82daaa5ab6bfa323739c88d8630b34be32c5efb222.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
7e0b847f120533e2
SHA-256
7e0b847f120533e2ac012a82daaa5ab6bfa323739c88d8630b34be32c5efb222
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:17 UTC
Run
1083
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118701

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated globe image with green text on cyan background reading 'A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out'

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,146 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 770

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • globe (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • blue
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • split into four text segments
  • central globe image

Dense Caption

Pixelated globe image shows blue and white landmasses on dark background; cyan background with green pixelated text in four segments: 'A friend is someone' top-right, 'who walks in when' bottom-left, 'the rest of the world' top-right, 'walks out' bottom-right; text uses blocky, low-resolution font; no visible animation changes; colors include cyan, green, blue, white, dark gray; composition is split into four text segments surrounding central globe image

Description

  • Pixelated globe image with green text on cyan background reading 'A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out'

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • sentimental
  • reflective

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  • pixelated globe green text
  • friend quote cyan background
  • globe text four segments
  • cyan green blue white dark gray
  • globe text sentiment
  • globe text reflective
  • globe text low resolution

Objects

  • globe
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • globe
  • text

Visible Text

  • A friend is someone
  • who walks in when
  • the rest of the world
  • walks out

Wordwall

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  • cyan background
  • green text
  • blocky font
  • four text segments
  • blue and white landmasses
  • dark background
  • no animation
  • cyan green blue white dark gray
  • split composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:04 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708251442301222357174
Archive entry
200708251442301222357174.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708251442301222357174.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708251442301222357174.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016