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Yellow starburst shape with pink text listing names and "me bff!" on bright blue background, no visible animation changes across observations.

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Yellow starburst shape with pink text listing names and "me bff!" on bright blue background, no visible animation changes across observations.

Yellow starburst shape with pink text listing names and "me bff!" on bright blue background, no visible animation changes across observations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Style

Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across all provided observations; content remains static throughout.

Composition

  • centered starburst with vertical text alignment

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background contains a single yellow starburst-shaped graphic. Pink pixelated text lists: "sana©3", "nicole©3", "sam©3", "amy©3", "me bff!" in vertical alignment within the starburst. All four provided chronological observations show identical visual content with no discernible differences between frames. Text uses a consistent blocky, retro digital font style. The © symbol appears as a small circular character next to each name. No additional objects or motion effects are visible.

Description

Yellow starburst shape with pink text listing names and "me bff!" on bright blue background, no visible animation changes across observations.

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
  • 200712041536201987489742

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow starburst cyan background pink text
  • sana nicole sam amy me bff
  • pixel art retro digital font
  • no animation buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four observations show identical content; no motion detected.

Visible Text

  • sana©3
  • nicole©3
  • sam©3
  • amy©3
  • me bff!

Wordwall

  • yellow starburst
  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • sana©3
  • nicole©3
  • sam©3
  • amy©3
  • me bff!
  • blocky digital font
  • no animation changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712041536201987489742
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a918a3589841aefe4cc7eab7ba782ac05d1cda5afede21669c2a3c36d71f7b09.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
a918a3589841aefe
SHA-256
a918a3589841aefe4cc7eab7ba782ac05d1cda5afede21669c2a3c36d71f7b09
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000070

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000070falseharassment0.000010falseself-harm0.000003falseviolence0.000002falseviolence/graphic0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000002falsehate0.000001falseillicit0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.253182

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.778945onnx/unsafe0.253182onnx/nsfw0.213519onnx/nsfl0.039663
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow starburst shape with pink text listing names and "me bff!" on bright blue background, no visible animation changes across observations.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:10 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,070 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 638

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • starburst shape (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across all provided observations; content remains static throughout.

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • centered starburst with vertical text alignment

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background contains a single yellow starburst-shaped graphic. Pink pixelated text lists: "sana©3", "nicole©3", "sam©3", "amy©3", "me bff!" in vertical alignment within the starburst. All four provided chronological observations show identical visual content with no discernible differences between frames. Text uses a consistent blocky, retro digital font style. The © symbol appears as a small circular character next to each name. No additional objects or motion effects are visible.

Description

Yellow starburst shape with pink text listing names and "me bff!" on bright blue background, no visible animation changes across observations.

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
  • 200712041536201987489742

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow starburst cyan background pink text
  • sana nicole sam amy me bff
  • pixel art retro digital font
  • no animation buddy icon

Objects

  • starburst shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four observations show identical content; no motion detected.

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • sana©3
  • nicole©3
  • sam©3
  • amy©3
  • me bff!

Wordwall

  • yellow starburst
  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • sana©3
  • nicole©3
  • sam©3
  • amy©3
  • me bff!
  • blocky digital font
  • no animation changes
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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
200712041536201987489742
Archive entry
200712041536201987489742.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712041536201987489742.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712041536201987489742.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016