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Animated icon with heart-shaped yarn background, 'Best Friends' text, and a hand drawing a star in sand.

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Animated icon with heart-shaped yarn background, 'Best Friends' text, and a hand drawing a star in sand.

Animated icon with heart-shaped yarn background, 'Best Friends' text, and a hand drawing a star in sand. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hand moves across sand
  • drawing star

Animation Summary

  • The hand draws a star in sand while the heart-shaped yarn background and 'Best Friends' text remain static.

Composition

  • heart-shaped background
  • text overlay
  • hand in foreground

Dense Caption

The icon displays a heart-shaped background made of multicolored yarn (teal, green, brown, purple). Overlaid text reads 'Best Friends' in bright cyan with black outline. The animation shows a hand with pink nail polish drawing a star in light brown sand, with the hand moving across the sand. The hand has brown skin and visible fingers.

Description

  • Animated icon with heart-shaped yarn background, 'Best Friends' text, and a hand drawing a star in sand.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends yarn heart
  • hand drawing star sand
  • pink nail polish sand star
  • cyan text best friends

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era, but pixels show no age indicators

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel-supported claims

Subjects

  • hand
  • star

Visible Text

  • Best Friends

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped yarn background
  • teal green brown purple yarn
  • Best Friends text
  • cyan text with black outline
  • hand drawing star
  • pink nail polish
  • light brown sand
  • brown skin hand
  • star shape in sand

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909011344571056045219
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a80f735045a8d0ca09ab3d06b50a5ec58fae08ebc9cc76533b02aa42d5b05491.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
a80f735045a8d0ca
SHA-256
a80f735045a8d0ca09ab3d06b50a5ec58fae08ebc9cc76533b02aa42d5b05491
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 23:06 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.046982

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
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Animated icon with heart-shaped yarn background, 'Best Friends' text, and a hand drawing a star in sand.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,003 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 683

Review tags

  • drawing (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • sand (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)
  • yarn heart (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • drawing

Animation

  • hand moves across sand
  • drawing star

Animation Summary

  • The hand draws a star in sand while the heart-shaped yarn background and 'Best Friends' text remain static.

Colors

  • teal
  • green
  • brown
  • purple
  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • light brown

Composition

  • heart-shaped background
  • text overlay
  • hand in foreground

Dense Caption

The icon displays a heart-shaped background made of multicolored yarn (teal, green, brown, purple). Overlaid text reads 'Best Friends' in bright cyan with black outline. The animation shows a hand with pink nail polish drawing a star in light brown sand, with the hand moving across the sand. The hand has brown skin and visible fingers.

Description

  • Animated icon with heart-shaped yarn background, 'Best Friends' text, and a hand drawing a star in sand.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends yarn heart
  • hand drawing star sand
  • pink nail polish sand star
  • cyan text best friends

Objects

  • yarn heart
  • sand
  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era, but pixels show no age indicators

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel-supported claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • hand
  • star
  • yarn heart

Visible Text

  • Best Friends

Wordwall

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  • teal green brown purple yarn
  • Best Friends text
  • cyan text with black outline
  • hand drawing star
  • pink nail polish
  • light brown sand
  • brown skin hand
  • star shape in sand
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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
200909011344571056045219
Archive entry
200909011344571056045219.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909011344571056045219.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909011344571056045219.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016