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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding an object, next to bright pink background with pixelated text.

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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding an object, next to bright pink background with pixelated text.

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding an object, next to bright pink background with pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure, right text
  • centered text lines

Dense Caption

Left side shows low-resolution pixelated figure wearing dark top and light-colored pants; face is indistinct due to compression. Right side features solid bright magenta background with black pixelated text reading "oh dang i love bestfriends" in four lines, each line centered horizontally. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Figure appears static against the text panel.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding an object, next to bright pink background with pixelated text.

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
  • 200711081503431505141067

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure magenta background
  • oh dang i love bestfriends text
  • 8-bit font buddy icon
  • static image pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined objects: text panel

Visible Text

  • oh dang
  • i
  • love
  • bestfriends

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark clothing
  • magenta background
  • black pixelated text
  • oh dang i love bestfriends
  • blocky font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711081503431505141067
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/91c585077fd635222aa84e643afaa3b7a0f24e62ef99c9ea07bb9665da9b4f46.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
91c585077fd63522
SHA-256
91c585077fd635222aa84e643afaa3b7a0f24e62ef99c9ea07bb9665da9b4f46
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156720

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.895902onnx/unsafe0.156720onnx/nsfl0.079735onnx/nsfw0.076985
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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding an object, next to bright pink background with pixelated text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,241 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 622

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • black
  • dark gray
  • light brown

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure, right text
  • centered text lines

Dense Caption

Left side shows low-resolution pixelated figure wearing dark top and light-colored pants; face is indistinct due to compression. Right side features solid bright magenta background with black pixelated text reading "oh dang i love bestfriends" in four lines, each line centered horizontally. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Figure appears static against the text panel.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing holding an object, next to bright pink background with pixelated text.

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
  • 200711081503431505141067

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure magenta background
  • oh dang i love bestfriends text
  • 8-bit font buddy icon
  • static image pixel art

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined objects: text panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • oh dang
  • i
  • love
  • bestfriends

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark clothing
  • magenta background
  • black pixelated text
  • oh dang i love bestfriends
  • blocky font
  • static image
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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
200711081503431505141067
Archive entry
200711081503431505141067.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711081503431505141067.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711081503431505141067.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016