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Static image with bright magenta background and black rectangular text boxes containing pixelated words.

Static image with bright magenta background and black rectangular text boxes containing pixelated words. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • five text boxes arranged asymmetrically on solid background

Dense Caption

Bright magenta solid background. Five black horizontal rectangles contain pixelated pink text: top-center 'lollypop', top-right 'skittles', bottom-left 'oreo', center-bottom 'BFFLS', bottom-right '4 ever'. All text uses a retro 8-bit font style with no additional graphics or symbols.

Description

  • Static image with bright magenta background and black rectangular text boxes containing pixelated words.

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
  • 200812081629391205347566

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background pixel art
  • lollypop skittles oreo BFFLS 4 ever text
  • 8-bit pink text on black rectangles

Visible Text

  • lollypop
  • skittles
  • oreo
  • BFFLS
  • 4 ever

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • black rectangles
  • pixelated pink text
  • lollypop
  • skittles
  • oreo
  • BFFLS
  • 4 ever

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812081629391205347566
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
a4b8202d9b789b6e
SHA-256
a4b8202d9b789b6ed42926e29db78c94fea0857e31490e954c47c354f3b0ad5b
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 08:23 UTC
Run
15963
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
1269
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
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Static image with bright magenta background and black rectangular text boxes containing pixelated words.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,881 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 608

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • five text boxes arranged asymmetrically on solid background

Dense Caption

Bright magenta solid background. Five black horizontal rectangles contain pixelated pink text: top-center 'lollypop', top-right 'skittles', bottom-left 'oreo', center-bottom 'BFFLS', bottom-right '4 ever'. All text uses a retro 8-bit font style with no additional graphics or symbols.

Description

  • Static image with bright magenta background and black rectangular text boxes containing pixelated words.

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
  • 200812081629391205347566

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background pixel art
  • lollypop skittles oreo BFFLS 4 ever text
  • 8-bit pink text on black rectangles

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • lollypop
  • skittles
  • oreo
  • BFFLS
  • 4 ever

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • black rectangles
  • pixelated pink text
  • lollypop
  • skittles
  • oreo
  • BFFLS
  • 4 ever
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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
200812081629391205347566
Archive entry
200812081629391205347566.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812081629391205347566.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812081629391205347566.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016