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A static image with a bright cyan background filled with green stars, displaying the text "i <3 my friends" in black pixelated font.

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A static image with a bright cyan background filled with green stars, displaying the text "i <3 my friends" in black pixelated font.

A static image with a bright cyan background filled with green stars, displaying the text "i <3 my friends" in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a solid cyan background overlaid with multiple green star shapes. The stars are scattered across the entire frame and appear to be slightly blurred or faded. Centered on the background is black pixelated text arranged vertically: 'i' at the top, followed by '<3', then 'my', and finally 'friends'. The text remains static throughout all observations.

Description

  • A static image with a bright cyan background filled with green stars, displaying the text "i <3 my friends" in black pixelated font.

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
  • 200802051352221015493745

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background green stars i <3 my friends
  • pixelated text cyan star background
  • i <3 my friends cyan green stars
  • green stars cyan background pixelated text

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • my
  • friends

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green stars
  • pixelated text
  • i <3 my friends

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802051352221015493745
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af773c4cdf7b896531f6c4d0a7bde064586889a49e80ce52807a01a607beccfa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
af773c4cdf7b8965
SHA-256
af773c4cdf7b896531f6c4d0a7bde064586889a49e80ce52807a01a607beccfa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100518

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a bright cyan background filled with green stars, displaying the text "i <3 my friends" in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,554 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a solid cyan background overlaid with multiple green star shapes. The stars are scattered across the entire frame and appear to be slightly blurred or faded. Centered on the background is black pixelated text arranged vertically: 'i' at the top, followed by '<3', then 'my', and finally 'friends'. The text remains static throughout all observations.

Description

  • A static image with a bright cyan background filled with green stars, displaying the text "i <3 my friends" in black pixelated font.

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
  • 200802051352221015493745

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background green stars i <3 my friends
  • pixelated text cyan star background
  • i <3 my friends cyan green stars
  • green stars cyan background pixelated text

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • my
  • friends

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green stars
  • pixelated text
  • i <3 my friends
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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
200802051352221015493745
Archive entry
200802051352221015493745.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802051352221015493745.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802051352221015493745.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016