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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side layouts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left symbol set darker than right in second observation

Animation Summary

  • The left symbol set is slightly darker than the right in a second observation.

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • text above symbols

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Two identical side-by-side layouts of pixelated white text: "Morgan and BETHa" (with 'BETHa' having uppercase 'B', lowercase 'e', 't', 'h', 'a') above "BFF's 4 Life" (with 'F' in 'BFF's' as a stylized 'E'). Below each layout are five pink pixelated symbols: #, #, #, #, #. The left layout has the third symbol slightly darker than the right layout.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • BETHa
  • BFF's 4 Life

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Morgan and BETHa BFF's 4 Life
  • bright pink pixelated text
  • BETHa BFF's 4 Life symbols
  • left symbols darker

Visible Text

  • Morgan
  • and
  • BETHa
  • BFF's
  • 4
  • Life

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • "Morgan and BETHa"
  • "BFF's 4 Life"
  • five pink symbols per layout
  • left symbol set darker

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710021713301413464367
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
321 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a51373ba42aff4acd9b3997a0b0a13721808516b5b05ff0ab493d960ddd50d38.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
a51373ba42aff4ac
SHA-256
a51373ba42aff4acd9b3997a0b0a13721808516b5b05ff0ab493d960ddd50d38
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.139704

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,291 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 652

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left symbol set darker than right in second observation

Animation Summary

  • The left symbol set is slightly darker than the right in a second observation.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • text above symbols

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Two identical side-by-side layouts of pixelated white text: "Morgan and BETHa" (with 'BETHa' having uppercase 'B', lowercase 'e', 't', 'h', 'a') above "BFF's 4 Life" (with 'F' in 'BFF's' as a stylized 'E'). Below each layout are five pink pixelated symbols: #, #, #, #, #. The left layout has the third symbol slightly darker than the right layout.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side layouts.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • BETHa
  • BFF's 4 Life

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Morgan and BETHa BFF's 4 Life
  • bright pink pixelated text
  • BETHa BFF's 4 Life symbols
  • left symbols darker

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Visible Text

  • Morgan
  • and
  • BETHa
  • BFF's
  • 4
  • Life

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • "Morgan and BETHa"
  • "BFF's 4 Life"
  • five pink symbols per layout
  • left symbol set darker
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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
200710021713301413464367
Archive entry
200710021713301413464367.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#200710021713301413464367.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710021713301413464367.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016