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A static image with a bright pink background and four light pink rectangular text boxes containing pixelated text.

A static image with a bright pink background and four light pink rectangular text boxes containing pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four rectangular text boxes
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center placement
  • partial visibility of bottom-right text

Dense Caption

The image features a solid bright pink background. Four light pink rectangular text boxes are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-center of the frame. Each box contains pixelated uppercase text: "DJ" in the top-left and bottom-left boxes, "DUFFIN" in the top-right and bottom-center boxes, and "IS THE BEST" in a partially visible bottom-right section. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style with no additional visual elements or animation.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background and four light pink rectangular text boxes containing 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
  • 20071204185129351037176

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink text boxes DJ DUFFIN
  • DJ twice DUFFIN twice IS THE BEST
  • pixelated retro digital font bright pink background
  • text boxes top-left top-right bottom-left bottom-center

Visible Text

  • DJ
  • DUFFIN
  • IS THE BEST

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • light pink rectangular text boxes
  • pixelated uppercase text
  • "DJ" appears twice
  • "DUFFIN" appears twice
  • "IS THE BEST" partially visible
  • blocky retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071204185129351037176
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
549 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9bfdfaa334884a9de65b5d42da52096f6ec94a9eea58e5be7f61d7c3e1cb207f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
9bfdfaa334884a9d
SHA-256
9bfdfaa334884a9de65b5d42da52096f6ec94a9eea58e5be7f61d7c3e1cb207f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:23 UTC
Run
1097
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.243618

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A static image with a bright pink background and four light pink rectangular text boxes containing pixelated text.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
4,807 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 667

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • light pink

Composition

  • four rectangular text boxes
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center placement
  • partial visibility of bottom-right text

Dense Caption

The image features a solid bright pink background. Four light pink rectangular text boxes are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-center of the frame. Each box contains pixelated uppercase text: "DJ" in the top-left and bottom-left boxes, "DUFFIN" in the top-right and bottom-center boxes, and "IS THE BEST" in a partially visible bottom-right section. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style with no additional visual elements or animation.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background and four light pink rectangular text boxes containing 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
  • 20071204185129351037176

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink text boxes DJ DUFFIN
  • DJ twice DUFFIN twice IS THE BEST
  • pixelated retro digital font bright pink background
  • text boxes top-left top-right bottom-left bottom-center

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • DJ
  • DUFFIN
  • IS THE BEST

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • light pink rectangular text boxes
  • pixelated uppercase text
  • "DJ" appears twice
  • "DUFFIN" appears twice
  • "IS THE BEST" partially visible
  • blocky retro digital font
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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
20071204185129351037176
Archive entry
20071204185129351037176.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#20071204185129351037176.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071204185129351037176.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016