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Pixelated cyan background with red text reading 'That snowman is my BestEst Buddy-)' and a small white snowflake icon.

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Pixelated cyan background with red text reading 'That snowman is my BestEst Buddy-)' and a small white snowflake icon.

Pixelated cyan background with red text reading 'That snowman is my BestEst Buddy-)' and a small white snowflake icon. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text block
  • small icon at bottom-right

Dense Caption

Cyan square background with thin white border. Red pixelated text reads 'That' (top), 'snowman' (second line), 'is my' (third line), 'BestEst' (fourth line, mixed case), 'Buddy-)' (fifth line). Small white snowflake icon appears at bottom-right corner of text block in all four panels. Text and snowflake remain static across all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with red text reading 'That snowman is my BestEst Buddy-)' and a small white snowflake icon.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan snowman buddy icon
  • red text bestest buddy
  • white snowflake cyan background

Visible Text

  • That
  • snowman
  • is my
  • BestEst
  • Buddy-)

Visually Supported Entities

  • snowman

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • red pixelated text
  • snowman
  • BestEst
  • Buddy-)
  • white snowflake

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071217122344289572945
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
462 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a5880a9d9890c6122cdbc104bd88cfc6fef5e3f007e0fa679d1d770dc7c94222.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
a5880a9d9890c612
SHA-256
a5880a9d9890c6122cdbc104bd88cfc6fef5e3f007e0fa679d1d770dc7c94222
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
0.127849

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan background with red text reading 'That snowman is my BestEst Buddy-)' and a small white snowflake icon.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,295 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 566

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • snowflake icon (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered text block
  • small icon at bottom-right

Dense Caption

Cyan square background with thin white border. Red pixelated text reads 'That' (top), 'snowman' (second line), 'is my' (third line), 'BestEst' (fourth line, mixed case), 'Buddy-)' (fifth line). Small white snowflake icon appears at bottom-right corner of text block in all four panels. Text and snowflake remain static across all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with red text reading 'That snowman is my BestEst Buddy-)' and a small white snowflake icon.

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

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan snowman buddy icon
  • red text bestest buddy
  • white snowflake cyan background

Objects

  • snowflake icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • snowman

Visible Text

  • That
  • snowman
  • is my
  • BestEst
  • Buddy-)

Visually Supported Entities

  • snowman

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • red pixelated text
  • snowman
  • BestEst
  • Buddy-)
  • white snowflake
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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
20071217122344289572945
Archive entry
20071217122344289572945.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071217122344289572945.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071217122344289572945.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016