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Red background with white text 'bEsTiEs', a pink heart symbol, and five pink stars in pixelated style.

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Red background with white text 'bEsTiEs', a pink heart symbol, and five pink stars in pixelated style.

Red background with white text 'bEsTiEs', a pink heart symbol, and five pink stars in pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • centered symbols
  • horizontal star arrangement

Dense Caption

Solid red background. White pixelated text 'bEsTiEs' at top center. Below it, centered pink pixelated '<3' symbol. Five pink pixelated star symbols arranged horizontally beneath the symbol. All elements are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Red background with white text 'bEsTiEs', a pink heart symbol, and five pink stars in pixelated style.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090412145151313901333

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bEsTiEs pink stars
  • red background bEsTiEs
  • <3 symbol five stars

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • bEsTiEs

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text bEsTiEs
  • <3 symbol
  • five pink stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090412145151313901333
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
770 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
7eae05bed45e41cb
SHA-256
7eae05bed45e41cb272b72cecaa5c0e1cba19c84b73906ef110a865843ec04c7
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 22:42 UTC
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1278
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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Red background with white text 'bEsTiEs', a pink heart symbol, and five pink stars in pixelated style.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,321 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 570

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • centered text
  • centered symbols
  • horizontal star arrangement

Dense Caption

Solid red background. White pixelated text 'bEsTiEs' at top center. Below it, centered pink pixelated '<3' symbol. Five pink pixelated star symbols arranged horizontally beneath the symbol. All elements are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Red background with white text 'bEsTiEs', a pink heart symbol, and five pink stars in pixelated style.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090412145151313901333

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bEsTiEs pink stars
  • red background bEsTiEs
  • <3 symbol five stars

Objects

  • <3 symbol
  • stars

Style

  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • bEsTiEs

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text bEsTiEs
  • <3 symbol
  • five pink stars
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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
20090412145151313901333
Archive entry
20090412145151313901333.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090412145151313901333.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090412145151313901333.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016