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Green pixelated text 'Best Friends 4ever <3' on blue background with white heart symbol above 'Best' on left side.

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Green pixelated text 'Best Friends 4ever <3' on blue background with white heart symbol above 'Best' on left side.

Green pixelated text 'Best Friends 4ever <3' on blue background with white heart symbol above 'Best' on left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered
  • heart symbol top-left

Dense Caption

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'Best Friends 4ever <3' in four lines. Left side has a white pixelated heart symbol above the word 'Best'. Right side shows identical text without the heart symbol. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'Best Friends 4ever <3' on blue background with white heart symbol above 'Best' on left side.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends 4ever <3
  • green pixelated text blue background
  • heart symbol best friends
  • retro digital text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Best
  • Friends
  • 4ever
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • Best Friends 4ever
  • <3 symbol
  • white heart symbol
  • retro digital font
  • static image
  • text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001061658421015492220
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
934 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
9ff0825dd63a0c8a
SHA-256
9ff0825dd63a0c8aad448e395dc830c3b15dd62ddd9543bec013fbee790603d8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
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1135
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.084157

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

Green pixelated text 'Best Friends 4ever <3' on blue background with white heart symbol above 'Best' on left side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,980 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

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  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • text centered
  • heart symbol top-left

Dense Caption

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'Best Friends 4ever <3' in four lines. Left side has a white pixelated heart symbol above the word 'Best'. Right side shows identical text without the heart symbol. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'Best Friends 4ever <3' on blue background with white heart symbol above 'Best' on left side.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends 4ever <3
  • green pixelated text blue background
  • heart symbol best friends
  • retro digital text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Best
  • Friends
  • 4ever
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • Best Friends 4ever
  • <3 symbol
  • white heart symbol
  • retro digital font
  • static image
  • text layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
61
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v5
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Error
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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
201001061658421015492220
Archive entry
201001061658421015492220.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#201001061658421015492220.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001061658421015492220.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016