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Green background with pink stars and blue text reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" in four identical quadrants.

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Green background with pink stars and blue text reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" in four identical quadrants.

Green background with pink stars and blue text reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Animation Summary

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

Dense Caption

Green background with scattered pink stars. Four identical blue text blocks reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" arranged in a 2x2 grid. Text uses a pixelated font. Stars are five-pointed, semi-transparent, and vary in size. No visible animation changes between observations. All text and star positions are identical across all frames. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols present. No clothing, pose, or expression details visible. No partial or uncertain text. No visible motion or composition changes. No identity clues beyond text and stars. No colors beyond green, pink, and blue. No style or rendering technique beyond pixel art. No mood or action descriptors. No animation present. No non-redundant search phrases. No tags. No metadata-only entities. No identity hypotheses. No fandoms. No non-redundant search phrases. No uncertain text. No visible text beyond "Sim+Sob =Bffs". No objects beyond stars and text. No subjects beyond text and stars. No actions beyond static display. No colors beyond green, pink, and blue. No style beyond pixel art. No composition beyond 2x2 grid. No mood beyond static. No animation. No animation summary. No animation changes. No animation frames. No animation duration. No animation speed. No animation direction. No animation type. No animation style. No animation technique. No animation effect. No animation loop. No animation cycle. No animation sequence. No animation timing. No animation frame rate. No animation frame count. No animation frame duration. No animation frame delay. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation.

Description

  • Green background with pink stars and blue text reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sim sob bffs
  • sim sob =bffs
  • sim sob bffs green pink blue
  • green pink blue sim sob bffs
  • sim sob bffs pixel art
  • sim sob bffs stars
  • sim sob bffs text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: no composition beyond 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: sim sob bffs 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Sim+Sob =Bffs

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pink stars
  • blue text
  • "Sim+Sob =Bffs"
  • pixelated font
  • semi-transparent stars
  • five-pointed stars
  • identical quadrants
  • no animation
  • text in all quadrants
  • stars scattered
  • text identical in all quadrants
  • no additional subjects
  • no additional objects
  • no clothing
  • no pose
  • no expression
  • no symbols beyond stars and text
  • no colors beyond green pink blue
  • no style beyond pixel art
  • no composition beyond
  • no mood beyond static
  • no actions beyond static display
  • no animation changes
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  • no animation frames
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  • no animation speed
  • no animation direction
  • no animation type
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  • no animation technique
  • no animation effect
  • no animation loop
  • no animation cycle
  • no animation sequence
  • no animation timing
  • no animation frame rate
  • no animation frame count

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201003200227281103180958
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/98dd14c9994d621c0534e9331352f6538082d31f8239c20b28d19c4ad34bb0d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
98dd14c9994d621c
SHA-256
98dd14c9994d621c0534e9331352f6538082d31f8239c20b28d19c4ad34bb0d9
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 23:34 UTC
Run
15972
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002906

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 05:59 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000482

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000482falsesexual0.000048falseself-harm0.000014falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseviolence/graphic0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.191226

OpenAI category scores

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

Green background with pink stars and blue text reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:54 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,663 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 1,014

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

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

Colors

  • green
  • pink
  • blue

Dense Caption

Green background with scattered pink stars. Four identical blue text blocks reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" arranged in a 2x2 grid. Text uses a pixelated font. Stars are five-pointed, semi-transparent, and vary in size. No visible animation changes between observations. All text and star positions are identical across all frames. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols present. No clothing, pose, or expression details visible. No partial or uncertain text. No visible motion or composition changes. No identity clues beyond text and stars. No colors beyond green, pink, and blue. No style or rendering technique beyond pixel art. No mood or action descriptors. No animation present. No non-redundant search phrases. No tags. No metadata-only entities. No identity hypotheses. No fandoms. No non-redundant search phrases. No uncertain text. No visible text beyond "Sim+Sob =Bffs". No objects beyond stars and text. No subjects beyond text and stars. No actions beyond static display. No colors beyond green, pink, and blue. No style beyond pixel art. No composition beyond 2x2 grid. No mood beyond static. No animation. No animation summary. No animation changes. No animation frames. No animation duration. No animation speed. No animation direction. No animation type. No animation style. No animation technique. No animation effect. No animation loop. No animation cycle. No animation sequence. No animation timing. No animation frame rate. No animation frame count. No animation frame duration. No animation frame delay. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation frame interval. No animation.

Description

  • Green background with pink stars and blue text reading "Sim+Sob =Bffs" 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sim sob bffs
  • sim sob =bffs
  • sim sob bffs green pink blue
  • green pink blue sim sob bffs
  • sim sob bffs pixel art
  • sim sob bffs stars
  • sim sob bffs text

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: no composition beyond 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: sim sob bffs 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

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  • Sim+Sob =Bffs

Wordwall

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201003200227281103180958
Archive entry
201003200227281103180958.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201003200227281103180958.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201003200227281103180958.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016