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Blue and green gradient background with white pixelated text reading "this is what best friends look like =]" in four identical quadrants.

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Blue and green gradient background with white pixelated text reading "this is what best friends look like =]" in four identical quadrants.

Blue and green gradient background with white pixelated text reading "this is what best friends look like =]" in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations show identical static content.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants display white pixelated text on a blue-to-green gradient background. Text reads "this is what best friends look like =]" in all quadrants. Each quadrant contains the same text layout with "this is" on the first line, "what best" on the second, "friends look" on the third, "like" on the fourth, and "]" on the fifth line. The background transitions from blue at the edges to green in the center of each quadrant. Pixelation is consistent across all text and background elements.

Description

  • Blue and green gradient background with white pixelated text reading "this is what best friends look like =]" in four identical quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070828183645766035451

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon text best friends
  • pixelated blue green gradient
  • four quadrants text
  • this is what best friends look like
  • aim buddy icon humor
  • text-based buddy icon
  • blue green gradient pixelated
  • buddy icon 2007-2016

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • no matte or frame artifacts visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • this is
  • what best
  • friends look
  • like
  • =]

Wordwall

  • blue-to-green gradient background
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical quadrants
  • text reads "this is what best friends look like =]"
  • centered text layout
  • pixelated font style
  • gradient transitions from blue to green
  • identical text in all quadrants
  • text lines: this is, what best, friends look, like, =]
  • gradient center is green

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070828183645766035451
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/9808f7c10fe17f2080c82dcd6680d4df05ae3bbea29ddcab4f0ed9ee91a209fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
9808f7c10fe17f20
SHA-256
9808f7c10fe17f2080c82dcd6680d4df05ae3bbea29ddcab4f0ed9ee91a209fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079565

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue and green gradient background with white pixelated text reading "this is what best friends look like =]" in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,309 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 853

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations show identical static content.

Colors

  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants display white pixelated text on a blue-to-green gradient background. Text reads "this is what best friends look like =]" in all quadrants. Each quadrant contains the same text layout with "this is" on the first line, "what best" on the second, "friends look" on the third, "like" on the fourth, and "]" on the fifth line. The background transitions from blue at the edges to green in the center of each quadrant. Pixelation is consistent across all text and background elements.

Description

  • Blue and green gradient background with white pixelated text reading "this is what best friends look like =]" in four identical quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070828183645766035451

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • friendly
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon text best friends
  • pixelated blue green gradient
  • four quadrants text
  • this is what best friends look like
  • aim buddy icon humor
  • text-based buddy icon
  • blue green gradient pixelated
  • buddy icon 2007-2016

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • no matte or frame artifacts visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • gradient background

Visible Text

  • this is
  • what best
  • friends look
  • like
  • =]

Wordwall

  • blue-to-green gradient background
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical quadrants
  • text reads "this is what best friends look like =]"
  • centered text layout
  • pixelated font style
  • gradient transitions from blue to green
  • identical text in all quadrants
  • text lines: this is, what best, friends look, like, =]
  • gradient center is green
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:29 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070828183645766035451
Archive entry
20070828183645766035451.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070828183645766035451.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070828183645766035451.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016