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Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL"

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Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL"

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • identical icons

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a blue and pink spiral background with a clockwise rotation. Black text is overlaid in a vertical list: "Jessica &" at the top, followed by "Julia," "Katie &," "Lena," and "BFFL" at the bottom. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font. The spiral background alternates between blue and pink concentric rings. The icons are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL"

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Jessica Julia Katie Lena BFFL
  • blue pink spiral text
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • text
  • blocky font spiral
  • BFFL text
  • spiral background text
  • text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL".
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid icon
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • Jessica &
  • Julia,
  • Katie &
  • Lena
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • blue and pink spiral
  • black pixelated text
  • Jessica & Julia & Katie & Lena BFFL
  • clockwise spiral
  • blocky font
  • identical icons
  • vertical text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803010911431867918215
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f6f0e684b43f5d0da375ab36b20d79ee1e061fd067ab78194e11fa3c8035a8c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
7f6f0e684b43f5d0
SHA-256
7f6f0e684b43f5d0da375ab36b20d79ee1e061fd067ab78194e11fa3c8035a8c
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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
Run
1091
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088658

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL"

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,961 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 716

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • spiral background (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • identical icons

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a blue and pink spiral background with a clockwise rotation. Black text is overlaid in a vertical list: "Jessica &" at the top, followed by "Julia," "Katie &," "Lena," and "BFFL" at the bottom. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font. The spiral background alternates between blue and pink concentric rings. The icons are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL"

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Jessica Julia Katie Lena BFFL
  • blue pink spiral text
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • text
  • blocky font spiral
  • BFFL text
  • spiral background text
  • text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each featuring a blue and pink spiral background with black text listing names and "BFFL".
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid icon
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • spiral background

Subjects

  • text
  • spiral background

Visible Text

  • Jessica &
  • Julia,
  • Katie &
  • Lena
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • blue and pink spiral
  • black pixelated text
  • Jessica & Julia & Katie & Lena BFFL
  • clockwise spiral
  • blocky font
  • identical icons
  • vertical text layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:31 UTC
Run
56
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
200803010911431867918215
Archive entry
200803010911431867918215.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200803010911431867918215.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803010911431867918215.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016