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Two pixelated images of men in formal shirts and ties, side-by-side with text blocks on the right.

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Two pixelated images of men in formal shirts and ties, side-by-side with text blocks on the right.

Two pixelated images of men in formal shirts and ties, side-by-side with text blocks on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • text blocks on right
  • vertical split in text section

Dense Caption

Top-left: man with short dark hair, glasses, light blue shirt, red tie, brown background. Bottom-left: man with short dark hair, white shirt, black tie, brown background. Right section split horizontally: top green pixelated text "can you say bff's?" on white; bottom white pixelated text "heck yes!" on green.

Description

  • Two pixelated images of men in formal shirts and ties, side-by-side with text blocks on the right.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bff's text image
  • can you say bff's heck yes
  • two men formal shirts pixelated
  • green white text block

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side

Visible Text

  • can you say bff's?
  • heck yes!

Visually Supported Entities

  • man

Wordwall

  • two men
  • formal shirts
  • red tie
  • black tie
  • brown background
  • green text block
  • white text block
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804102118211741854976
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a0c0e5bbc2c96171556bd91c2c2fb2883540e9015513813b2b79a93530decb5b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
a0c0e5bbc2c96171
SHA-256
a0c0e5bbc2c96171556bd91c2c2fb2883540e9015513813b2b79a93530decb5b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106633

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932955onnx/unsafe0.106633onnx/nsfw0.055802onnx/nsfl0.050831
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Two pixelated images of men in formal shirts and ties, side-by-side with text blocks on the right.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:04 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 575

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • tie (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light blue
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • text blocks on right
  • vertical split in text section

Dense Caption

Top-left: man with short dark hair, glasses, light blue shirt, red tie, brown background. Bottom-left: man with short dark hair, white shirt, black tie, brown background. Right section split horizontally: top green pixelated text "can you say bff's?" on white; bottom white pixelated text "heck yes!" on green.

Description

  • Two pixelated images of men in formal shirts and ties, side-by-side with text blocks on the right.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bff's text image
  • can you say bff's heck yes
  • two men formal shirts pixelated
  • green white text block

Objects

  • tie

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • man

Visible Text

  • can you say bff's?
  • heck yes!

Visually Supported Entities

  • man

Wordwall

  • two men
  • formal shirts
  • red tie
  • black tie
  • brown background
  • green text block
  • white text block
  • pixelated 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
200804102118211741854976
Archive entry
200804102118211741854976.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#200804102118211741854976.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804102118211741854976.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016