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Red pixelated text on black background reads 'My BFF is ME!' with a red heart symbol above the text in one frame.

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Red pixelated text on black background reads 'My BFF is ME!' with a red heart symbol above the text in one frame.

Red pixelated text on black background reads 'My BFF is ME!' with a red heart symbol above the text in one frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears in left frame, absent in right frame

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in left frame, absent in right frame; text remains static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart above right of 'My'

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: 'My' (top), 'BFF' (middle-left), 'is' (middle-right), 'ME!' (bottom). In left observation, a red pixelated heart symbol appears above and to the right of 'My'. Right observation shows no heart symbol. Text is static across both observations; only the heart's presence changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background reads 'My BFF is ME!' with a red heart symbol above the text in one frame.

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

  • red pixelated 'My BFF is ME!' heart
  • 'My BFF is ME!' red text black background
  • heart symbol above 'My'

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • My
  • BFF
  • is
  • ME!

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'My BFF is ME!'

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • pixelated style
  • heart symbol
  • 'My' text
  • 'BFF' text
  • 'is' text
  • 'ME!' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902030521591027985082
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
754 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a96a658a6590972be0ff19405b8b6d07e8e50849afb112479e79497360cd7592.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
a96a658a6590972b
SHA-256
a96a658a6590972be0ff19405b8b6d07e8e50849afb112479e79497360cd7592
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.115194

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on black background reads 'My BFF is ME!' with a red heart symbol above the text in one frame.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,238 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 612

Review tags

  • heart appears in left frame (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears in left frame

Animation

  • heart appears in left frame, absent in right frame

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in left frame, absent in right frame; text remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart above right of 'My'

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: 'My' (top), 'BFF' (middle-left), 'is' (middle-right), 'ME!' (bottom). In left observation, a red pixelated heart symbol appears above and to the right of 'My'. Right observation shows no heart symbol. Text is static across both observations; only the heart's presence changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background reads 'My BFF is ME!' with a red heart symbol above the text in one frame.

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

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated 'My BFF is ME!' heart
  • 'My BFF is ME!' red text black background
  • heart symbol above 'My'

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • My
  • BFF
  • is
  • ME!

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'My BFF is ME!'

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • pixelated style
  • heart symbol
  • 'My' text
  • 'BFF' text
  • 'is' text
  • 'ME!' text
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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
200902030521591027985082
Archive entry
200902030521591027985082.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902030521591027985082.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902030521591027985082.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016