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A static image with four identical showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow

A static image with four identical showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel displays pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow. The text reads "Ken& Joe& Tess& Kell are B.F.F.'s". The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The background has a subtle gradient effect. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with four identical showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ken Joe Tess Kell B.F.F.'s
  • teal pink text
  • pixelated B.F.F.'s
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with four identical panels showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • Ken&
  • Joe&
  • Tess&
  • Kell are
  • B.F.F.'s

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • pink text
  • B.F.F.'s
  • Ken& Joe& Tess& Kell
  • pixelated font
  • soft pink glow
  • four identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090326171443954101974
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c516221192d16af14e76474a003e6b799a7cdc86d9ebae3185efe2968a85b02.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
8c516221192d16af
SHA-256
8c516221192d16af14e76474a003e6b799a7cdc86d9ebae3185efe2968a85b02
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.095277

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with four identical showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,329 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 576

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • joe (subject, 0.80)
  • kell (subject, 0.80)
  • ken (subject, 0.80)
  • tess (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • pink

Composition

  • four identical

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel displays pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow. The text reads "Ken& Joe& Tess& Kell are B.F.F.'s". The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The background has a subtle gradient effect. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with four identical showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Ken Joe Tess Kell B.F.F.'s
  • teal pink text
  • pixelated B.F.F.'s
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with four identical panels showing pink text on a teal background with a soft pink glow.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • Ken
  • Joe
  • Tess
  • Kell

Visible Text

  • Ken&
  • Joe&
  • Tess&
  • Kell are
  • B.F.F.'s

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • pink text
  • B.F.F.'s
  • Ken& Joe& Tess& Kell
  • pixelated font
  • soft pink glow
  • four identical
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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
20090326171443954101974
Archive entry
20090326171443954101974.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090326171443954101974.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090326171443954101974.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016