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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with text overlays, one reading 'Rathel and Sami' and the other 'Bestest Friends Forever = )'.

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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with text overlays, one reading 'Rathel and Sami' and the other 'Bestest Friends Forever = )'.

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with text overlays, one reading 'Rathel and Sami' and the other 'Bestest Friends Forever = )'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static side-by-side images.

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with light brown hair and a brown top against a green background. Left image text: 'Rathel and Sami' in white block letters. Right image text: 'Bestest Friends Forever = )' in white block letters. Both images show the same person in a similar pose with arms crossed. The right image includes a smiley face symbol. The background is a blurred green and brown pattern. The images have a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with text overlays, one reading 'Rathel and Sami' and the other 'Bestest Friends Forever = )'.

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

  • Rathel
  • Sami

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Rathel and Sami
  • Bestest Friends Forever
  • smiley face = )
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • green background
  • white block text
  • arms crossed
  • light brown hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping

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

  • Rathel and Sami
  • Bestest Friends Forever = )

Wordwall

  • person with light brown hair
  • brown top
  • green background
  • white block text
  • arms crossed
  • smiley face = )
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • side-by-side
  • text overlays

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806123440113271649
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9d/9d32e50c457c89ad71bfb1f1d0d96ccd892c6ee2386c572c0bfef3ab9e85da74.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
9d32e50c457c89ad
SHA-256
9d32e50c457c89ad71bfb1f1d0d96ccd892c6ee2386c572c0bfef3ab9e85da74
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130456

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with text overlays, one reading 'Rathel and Sami' and the other 'Bestest Friends Forever = )'.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,638 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 822

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • smiley face (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms crossed

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static side-by-side images.

Colors

  • light brown
  • brown
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with light brown hair and a brown top against a green background. Left image text: 'Rathel and Sami' in white block letters. Right image text: 'Bestest Friends Forever = )' in white block letters. Both images show the same person in a similar pose with arms crossed. The right image includes a smiley face symbol. The background is a blurred green and brown pattern. The images have a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with text overlays, one reading 'Rathel and Sami' and the other 'Bestest Friends Forever = )'.

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

  • Rathel
  • Sami

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Rathel and Sami
  • Bestest Friends Forever
  • smiley face = )
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • green background
  • white block text
  • arms crossed
  • light brown hair

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
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  • no cropping

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • block text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Rathel and Sami
  • Bestest Friends Forever = )

Wordwall

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  • brown top
  • green background
  • white block text
  • arms crossed
  • smiley face = )
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:34 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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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
20070806123440113271649
Archive entry
20070806123440113271649.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806123440113271649.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806123440113271649.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016