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A potato with 'pototo' text, a tomato with '+' and 'tomoto' text, and '= BFFLS' on green background.

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A potato with 'pototo' text, a tomato with '+' and 'tomoto' text, and '= BFFLS' on green background.

A potato with 'pototo' text, a tomato with '+' and 'tomoto' text, and '= BFFLS' on green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left shows a brown potato with black text overlay reading 'pototo'. Top-right displays a red tomato with a black plus sign above white text reading 'tomoto'. Bottom-left features a bright green background with black text '= BFFLS'. Bottom-right is solid gray. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • A potato with 'pototo' text, a tomato with '+' and 'tomoto' text, and '= BFFLS' on green background.

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
  • 20080401015108245226546

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pototo tomato bffls
  • buddy icon potato tomato
  • green background plus sign text
  • tomato pototo bffls

Objects

  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • pototo
  • tomoto
  • +
  • = BFFLS

Wordwall

  • brown potato
  • red tomato
  • green background
  • = BFFLS
  • black text
  • white text
  • plus sign

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080401015108245226546
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89d5c8254857bc0fb1599c6615f71ece6da1ca212199e7bf4491ad2e2d791459.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
89d5c8254857bc0f
SHA-256
89d5c8254857bc0fb1599c6615f71ece6da1ca212199e7bf4491ad2e2d791459
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098288

OpenAI category scores

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A potato with 'pototo' text, a tomato with '+' and 'tomoto' text, and '= BFFLS' on green background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:56 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,486 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 616

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • potato (subject, 0.80)
  • tomato (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • green
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left shows a brown potato with black text overlay reading 'pototo'. Top-right displays a red tomato with a black plus sign above white text reading 'tomoto'. Bottom-left features a bright green background with black text '= BFFLS'. Bottom-right is solid gray. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • A potato with 'pototo' text, a tomato with '+' and 'tomoto' text, and '= BFFLS' on green background.

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
  • 20080401015108245226546

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pototo tomato bffls
  • buddy icon potato tomato
  • green background plus sign text
  • tomato pototo bffls

Objects

  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • potato
  • tomato

Visible Text

  • pototo
  • tomoto
  • +
  • = BFFLS

Wordwall

  • brown potato
  • red tomato
  • green background
  • = BFFLS
  • black text
  • white text
  • plus sign
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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
20080401015108245226546
Archive entry
20080401015108245226546.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080401015108245226546.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080401015108245226546.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016