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Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns, red text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley' in four quadrants.

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Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns, red text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley' in four quadrants.

Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns, red text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley' in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

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

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns. Four identical quadrants each contain red pixelated text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley'. Text is in a blocky, retro font. White dashed lines form a grid dividing the image into four equal sections. White star-like patterns appear at the corners and along the borders. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations. All four quadrants display identical content. The text 'My bfis' uses lowercase 'b' and 'f', with 'bfis' as a single word. 'Meg,Beth' includes a comma between names. 'Riley' is on a separate line below 'Meg,Beth'.

Description

  • Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns, red text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley' in four 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pixel art
  • red text 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley'
  • four quadrants white dashed borders
  • pixelated retro font text
  • 'My bfis' comma 'Meg,Beth' 'Riley'
  • white star patterns green background
  • static pixel art icon
  • text 'My bfis' lowercase 'b' 'f'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • My bfis
  • Meg,Beth
  • Riley

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white dashed borders
  • star patterns
  • red pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • identical content
  • blocky retro font
  • white star-like patterns
  • comma in 'Meg,Beth'
  • 'My bfis' as single word
  • 'Riley' on separate line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081125174554816565980
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
462 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
99a1ae057f92ecad
SHA-256
99a1ae057f92ecad583ba2cfa56c9b1737669dac1b29379a4c8ecb6edb4c9002
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091544

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns, red text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley' in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,326 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 824

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

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

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns. Four identical quadrants each contain red pixelated text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley'. Text is in a blocky, retro font. White dashed lines form a grid dividing the image into four equal sections. White star-like patterns appear at the corners and along the borders. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations. All four quadrants display identical content. The text 'My bfis' uses lowercase 'b' and 'f', with 'bfis' as a single word. 'Meg,Beth' includes a comma between names. 'Riley' is on a separate line below 'Meg,Beth'.

Description

  • Green background with white dashed borders and star patterns, red text reading 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley' in four 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

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  • red text 'My bfis Meg,Beth Riley'
  • four quadrants white dashed borders
  • pixelated retro font text
  • 'My bfis' comma 'Meg,Beth' 'Riley'
  • white star patterns green background
  • static pixel art icon
  • text 'My bfis' lowercase 'b' 'f'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • static

Visible Text

  • My bfis
  • Meg,Beth
  • Riley

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white dashed borders
  • star patterns
  • red pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • identical content
  • blocky retro font
  • white star-like patterns
  • comma in 'Meg,Beth'
  • 'My bfis' as single word
  • 'Riley' on separate line
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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
20081125174554816565980
Archive entry
20081125174554816565980.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081125174554816565980.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081125174554816565980.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016