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Four pixelated icons on pink background with text labels KIRA, CATHI, KATHARINE, and BFFS!!

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Four pixelated icons on pink background with text labels KIRA, CATHI, KATHARINE, and BFFS!!

Four pixelated icons on pink background with text labels KIRA, CATHI, KATHARINE, and BFFS. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Composition

  • solid background
  • text below icons

Dense Caption

Four distinct pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid pink background. Top-left icon: two angled brackets, a horizontal line with two dots, and two curved brackets with a horizontal line. Text below: KIRA. Top-right icon: two angled brackets, a circle with two dots, and two angled brackets. Text below: CATHI. Bottom-left icon: two angled brackets, two heart shapes with a horizontal line, and two curved brackets. Text below: KATHARINE. Bottom-right icon: large bold text BFFS!! with two exclamation marks. All icons use dark gray or black pixels on pink background. No visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four pixelated icons on pink background with text labels KIRA, CATHI, KATHARINE, and BFFS!!

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background pixelated icons
  • KIRA CATHI KATHARINE BFFS
  • text-based icons
  • icons
  • brackets hearts dots
  • BFFS!! text
  • KIRA CATHI KATHARINE labels
  • pixelated text icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid icons

Visible Text

  • KIRA
  • CATHI
  • KATHARINE
  • BFFS!!

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • pixelated icons
  • KIRA text
  • CATHI text
  • KATHARINE text
  • BFFS!! text
  • angled brackets
  • heart shapes
  • horizontal line
  • circle with dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810290132581305351274
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/8158c3f661cc339f9eeb7a54b213c8778bac15f805e52faad76fa37e0c264334.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
8158c3f661cc339f
SHA-256
8158c3f661cc339f9eeb7a54b213c8778bac15f805e52faad76fa37e0c264334
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
1101
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105293

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Four pixelated icons on pink background with text labels KIRA, CATHI, KATHARINE, and BFFS!!

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,953 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 746

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • horizontal lines (subject, 0.80)
  • text labels (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • dark gray
  • black

Composition

  • solid background
  • text below icons

Dense Caption

Four distinct pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid pink background. Top-left icon: two angled brackets, a horizontal line with two dots, and two curved brackets with a horizontal line. Text below: KIRA. Top-right icon: two angled brackets, a circle with two dots, and two angled brackets. Text below: CATHI. Bottom-left icon: two angled brackets, two heart shapes with a horizontal line, and two curved brackets. Text below: KATHARINE. Bottom-right icon: large bold text BFFS!! with two exclamation marks. All icons use dark gray or black pixels on pink background. No visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four pixelated icons on pink background with text labels KIRA, CATHI, KATHARINE, and BFFS!!

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

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  • KIRA CATHI KATHARINE BFFS
  • text-based icons
  • icons
  • brackets hearts dots
  • BFFS!! text
  • KIRA CATHI KATHARINE labels
  • pixelated text icons

Objects

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  • dots
  • hearts
  • horizontal lines

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text labels
  • brackets
  • dots
  • hearts
  • horizontal lines

Visible Text

  • KIRA
  • CATHI
  • KATHARINE
  • BFFS!!

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • pixelated icons
  • KIRA text
  • CATHI text
  • KATHARINE text
  • BFFS!! text
  • angled brackets
  • heart shapes
  • horizontal line
  • circle with dots
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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
200810290132581305351274
Archive entry
200810290132581305351274.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810290132581305351274.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810290132581305351274.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016