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Two hands holding each other against a blue background, with text reading "The only way to have a friend..." and "...is to be one" in black and white.

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Two hands holding each other against a blue background, with text reading "The only way to have a friend..." and "...is to be one" in black and white.

Two hands holding each other against a blue background, with text reading "The only way to have a friend..." and "...is to be one" in black and white. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text appears sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text appears sequentially: first "The only way to have a friend..." then "...is to be one".

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text on left
  • hands on right
  • text at bottom left

Dense Caption

Two hands holding each other against a blue background. The left side shows text "The only way to have a friend..." in black rectangular blocks with white text. The right side shows hands holding each other. The bottom left shows text "...is to be one" in black rectangular blocks with white text. The hands are light-skinned. The background is a solid blue color. The text is in a pixelated font. The image is divided into four quadrants.

Description

Two hands holding each other against a blue background, with text reading "The only way to have a friend..." and "...is to be one" in black and white.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands holding blue background text
  • text only way friend be one
  • pixelated text hands holding
  • blue background hands holding text

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • The only way to have a friend...
  • ...is to be one

Wordwall

  • two hands holding
  • blue background
  • text in black blocks
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants
  • light-skinned hands
  • solid blue background
  • black rectangular text blocks
  • white text on black

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809281726241336422584
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a07828ad56310d90d2856470db65342df8a8f4d2e3969ab4bed415cc7afbf758.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
a07828ad56310d90
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
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Two hands holding each other against a blue background, with text reading "The only way to have a friend..." and "...is to be one" in black and white.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,911 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 717

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light skinned (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • supportive (mood, 0.80)
  • text appears sequentially (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • hands (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • text appears sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text appears sequentially: first "The only way to have a friend..." then "...is to be one".

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • light-skinned

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text on left
  • hands on right
  • text at bottom left

Dense Caption

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Description

Two hands holding each other against a blue background, with text reading "The only way to have a friend..." and "...is to be one" in black and white.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Mood

  • supportive
  • inspirational

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  • text only way friend be one
  • pixelated text hands holding
  • blue background hands holding text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • hands

Visible Text

  • The only way to have a friend...
  • ...is to be one

Wordwall

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  • blue background
  • text in black blocks
  • white text
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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
200809281726241336422584
Archive entry
200809281726241336422584.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809281726241336422584.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809281726241336422584.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016