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Pixelated text and star symbols on a split background of pink and purple hues, with cyan text and star colors shifting between frames.

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Pixelated text and star symbols on a split background of pink and purple hues, with cyan text and star colors shifting between frames.

Pixelated text and star symbols on a split background of pink and purple hues, with cyan text and star colors shifting between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star color alternates between cyan and pink

Animation Summary

  • The star symbol alternates color between cyan and pink across frames while the text and background remain static.

Composition

  • split background
  • quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a split background with the top-left and bottom-right quadrants in bright pink and the top-right and bottom-left quadrants in purple. Cyan text reads 'Ebony + Lauren + Courtney = Besties 4eva' across all quadrants. A star symbol appears in the bottom-right quadrant of the pink background and the top-right quadrant of the purple background. The star's color alternates between cyan and pink between frames. The text remains static while the star's color changes. The image uses a pixelated font style with no additional visual elements or motion beyond the star color shift.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols on a split background of pink and purple hues, with cyan text and star colors shifting between frames.

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

  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva
  • split pink purple background
  • cyan star alternates color
  • pixelated text star symbol
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva cyan star
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva pink purple background
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva cyan pink star
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva pixelated text

Objects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • Ebony +
  • Lauren +
  • Courtney =
  • Besties
  • 4eva

Wordwall

  • split background
  • pink and purple quadrants
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
  • star symbol
  • star color alternates
  • text static
  • no additional elements
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201202291925521640503693
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c47c58e75b2dbbf23010c8572abd49884683f1fd8a92bfc80caff35c7c4584d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
8c47c58e75b2dbbf
SHA-256
8c47c58e75b2dbbf23010c8572abd49884683f1fd8a92bfc80caff35c7c4584d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000570

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.173606

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and star symbols on a split background of pink and purple hues, with cyan text and star colors shifting between frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:53 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 703

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • star symbol (object, 0.80)
  • star color alternates between cyan and pink (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • star color alternates between cyan and pink

Animation Summary

  • The star symbol alternates color between cyan and pink across frames while the text and background remain static.

Colors

  • pink
  • purple
  • cyan

Composition

  • split background
  • quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a split background with the top-left and bottom-right quadrants in bright pink and the top-right and bottom-left quadrants in purple. Cyan text reads 'Ebony + Lauren + Courtney = Besties 4eva' across all quadrants. A star symbol appears in the bottom-right quadrant of the pink background and the top-right quadrant of the purple background. The star's color alternates between cyan and pink between frames. The text remains static while the star's color changes. The image uses a pixelated font style with no additional visual elements or motion beyond the star color shift.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols on a split background of pink and purple hues, with cyan text and star colors shifting between frames.

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

  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva
  • split pink purple background
  • cyan star alternates color
  • pixelated text star symbol
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva cyan star
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva pink purple background
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva cyan pink star
  • ebony lauren courtney besties 4eva pixelated text

Objects

  • star symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Ebony +
  • Lauren +
  • Courtney =
  • Besties
  • 4eva

Wordwall

  • split background
  • pink and purple quadrants
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
  • star symbol
  • star color alternates
  • text static
  • no additional elements
  • pixelated style
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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
201202291925521640503693
Archive entry
201202291925521640503693.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201202291925521640503693.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201202291925521640503693.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016