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Red pixelated text on black background with white cursor-like shape, displaying names and friendship phrases.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • top-center cursor shape

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text in multiple lines: 'kara, emmokara, emma', 'nels, hannakels, hanna', 'and britt and britt', 'best frienddoest friends:', 'for life for life'. White cursor-like shape at top center. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with white cursor-like shape, displaying names and friendship phrases.

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

  • kara britt hanna emma nels hannakels
  • best frienddoest friends for life
  • red pixelated text black background white cursor

Visible Text

  • kara, emmokara, emma
  • nels, hannakels, hanna
  • and britt and britt
  • best frienddoest friends:
  • for life for life

Visually Supported Entities

  • kara
  • britt
  • hanna
  • emma
  • nels
  • hannakels
  • emmokara

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • white cursor shape
  • pixelated font
  • multiple lines of text
  • names: kara, emmokara, emma, nels, hannakels, hanna, britt
  • phrases: best frienddoest friends:, for life

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071025183857679972327
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
342 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d816a7074171fc4299122a1c134bed680afc8a4dec40bde5cf113275de006cc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
8d816a7074171fc4
SHA-256
8d816a7074171fc4299122a1c134bed680afc8a4dec40bde5cf113275de006cc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105681

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on black background with white cursor-like shape, displaying names and friendship phrases.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:45 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,031 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 643

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cursor shape (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • top-center cursor shape

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text in multiple lines: 'kara, emmokara, emma', 'nels, hannakels, hanna', 'and britt and britt', 'best frienddoest friends:', 'for life for life'. White cursor-like shape at top center. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with white cursor-like shape, displaying names and friendship phrases.

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

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kara britt hanna emma nels hannakels
  • best frienddoest friends for life
  • red pixelated text black background white cursor

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • cursor shape

Visible Text

  • kara, emmokara, emma
  • nels, hannakels, hanna
  • and britt and britt
  • best frienddoest friends:
  • for life for life

Visually Supported Entities

  • kara
  • britt
  • hanna
  • emma
  • nels
  • hannakels
  • emmokara

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • white cursor shape
  • pixelated font
  • multiple lines of text
  • names: kara, emmokara, emma, nels, hannakels, hanna, britt
  • phrases: best frienddoest friends:, for life
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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
20071025183857679972327
Archive entry
20071025183857679972327.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071025183857679972327.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071025183857679972327.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016