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Blue background with green text and red starburst shapes containing repeated names.

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Blue background with green text and red starburst shapes containing repeated names.

Blue background with green text and red starburst shapes containing repeated names. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • text over blue background
  • four red starbursts positioned in

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background overlaid with bright green pixelated text reading 'best frienddoest friend', 'mike.ryan', 'aly.nancy', 'david.pierce', and 'griffen.motgriffen' in multiple rows. Four red starburst shapes are positioned over the text, each containing identical name sequences. The visual style is low-resolution pixel art with high-contrast colors: blue background, green text, red starbursts. No animation changes observed; all elements appear static across frames.

Description

  • Blue background with green text and red starburst shapes containing repeated names.

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
  • 200805311530271016137843

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green text red starbursts
  • mike.ryan aly.nancy david.pierce griffen.motgriffen
  • pixel art low-resolution high-contrast

Preprocessing Notes

  • The text 'best frienddoest friend' appears to be a misspelling of 'best friendliest friend' or similar, but is transcribed as seen.
  • quarantined composition: four red starbursts positioned in grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows over blue background

Visible Text

  • best frienddoest friend
  • mike.ryan
  • aly.nancy
  • david.pierce
  • griffen.motgriffen

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • red starburst shapes
  • 'best frienddoest friend' text
  • 'mike.ryan' text
  • 'aly.nancy' text
  • 'david.pierce' text
  • 'griffen.motgriffen' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805311530271016137843
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bfba4b230a2118adea3d130a6cd7ee963a4400b5e2324a7ef910dbc8a452407.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
8bfba4b230a2118a
SHA-256
8bfba4b230a2118adea3d130a6cd7ee963a4400b5e2324a7ef910dbc8a452407
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100980

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with green text and red starburst shapes containing repeated names.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 20:54 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,043 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 677

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • high contrast (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • text over blue background
  • four red starbursts positioned in

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background overlaid with bright green pixelated text reading 'best frienddoest friend', 'mike.ryan', 'aly.nancy', 'david.pierce', and 'griffen.motgriffen' in multiple rows. Four red starburst shapes are positioned over the text, each containing identical name sequences. The visual style is low-resolution pixel art with high-contrast colors: blue background, green text, red starbursts. No animation changes observed; all elements appear static across frames.

Description

  • Blue background with green text and red starburst shapes containing repeated names.

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
  • 200805311530271016137843

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green text red starbursts
  • mike.ryan aly.nancy david.pierce griffen.motgriffen
  • pixel art low-resolution high-contrast

Preprocessing Notes

  • The text 'best frienddoest friend' appears to be a misspelling of 'best friendliest friend' or similar, but is transcribed as seen.
  • quarantined composition: four red starbursts positioned in grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows over blue background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • high-contrast

Visible Text

  • best frienddoest friend
  • mike.ryan
  • aly.nancy
  • david.pierce
  • griffen.motgriffen

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • red starburst shapes
  • 'best frienddoest friend' text
  • 'mike.ryan' text
  • 'aly.nancy' text
  • 'david.pierce' text
  • 'griffen.motgriffen' text
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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
200805311530271016137843
Archive entry
200805311530271016137843.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200805311530271016137843.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805311530271016137843.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016