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Red background with white snowflake shapes and black text reading "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" in four identical quadrants.

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Red background with white snowflake shapes and black text reading "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" in four identical quadrants.

Red background with white snowflake shapes and black text reading "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • repeated text blocks
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background overlaid with multiple white, pixelated snowflake shapes. Four distinct blocks of black text are arranged across the composition: each block contains the phrase "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" rendered in a bold, sans-serif font. The text and snowflakes appear identical in all four quadrants. Pixelation affects both the text and background elements uniformly.

Description

  • Red background with white snowflake shapes and black text reading "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" in four identical quadrants.

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

Named Entities

  • matt ragsdale

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • matt ragsdale bffl snowflake red
  • bffl text white snowflakes
  • red background black text four blocks

Visible Text

  • matt ragsdale is my BFFL!

Visually Supported Entities

  • matt ragsdale

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white snowflake shapes
  • black text
  • "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!"
  • four identical blocks
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071215100219965068392
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8cc87eb323fe4fc8f094692f0635f8992d42572ecbd36d26d5689bed78ab808c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
8cc87eb323fe4fc8
SHA-256
8cc87eb323fe4fc8f094692f0635f8992d42572ecbd36d26d5689bed78ab808c
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
0.111901

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white snowflake shapes and black text reading "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:07 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,302 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 634

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affirmative (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • repeated text blocks
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background overlaid with multiple white, pixelated snowflake shapes. Four distinct blocks of black text are arranged across the composition: each block contains the phrase "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" rendered in a bold, sans-serif font. The text and snowflakes appear identical in all four quadrants. Pixelation affects both the text and background elements uniformly.

Description

  • Red background with white snowflake shapes and black text reading "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!" in four identical quadrants.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affirmative

Named Entities

  • matt ragsdale

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • matt ragsdale bffl snowflake red
  • bffl text white snowflakes
  • red background black text four blocks

Objects

  • snowflakes

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text layout

Subjects

  • text
  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • matt ragsdale is my BFFL!

Visually Supported Entities

  • matt ragsdale

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white snowflake shapes
  • black text
  • "matt ragsdale is my BFFL!"
  • four identical blocks
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20071215100219965068392
Archive entry
20071215100219965068392.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071215100219965068392.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071215100219965068392.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016