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A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and text blocks on the right.

A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and text blocks on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen left-right
  • text blocks stacked vertically on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair, dark clothing, and one arm raised near their head. Right side has bright pink background with six black rectangular bars containing white text: 'A bad friend', 'is someone who', 'knows all about', 'you but loves', 'you anyway!'. Text is in blocky pixelated font. Image appears static.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and text blocks on the right.

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

  • bad friend text icon
  • pink background pixelated text
  • split screen person and text
  • arm raised near head icon

Visible Text

  • A bad friend
  • is someone who
  • knows all about
  • you but loves
  • you anyway!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • light brown hair
  • dark clothing
  • arm raised near head
  • bright pink background
  • black rectangular text bars
  • white pixelated text
  • six text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081229184221950706151
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b0a4a37320705cbcd96795fa1c03bc8103b68ab74ee4819e4697c58119bd4a05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
b0a4a37320705cbc
SHA-256
b0a4a37320705cbcd96795fa1c03bc8103b68ab74ee4819e4697c58119bd4a05
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 00:21 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000072

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 19:03 UTC
Run
1290
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and text blocks on the right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 587

Review tags

  • arm raised near head (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affirming (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • text bars (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arm raised near head

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • dark gray

Composition

  • split-screen left-right
  • text blocks stacked vertically on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated figure with light brown hair, dark clothing, and one arm raised near their head. Right side has bright pink background with six black rectangular bars containing white text: 'A bad friend', 'is someone who', 'knows all about', 'you but loves', 'you anyway!'. Text is in blocky pixelated font. Image appears static.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a pixelated person on the left and text blocks on the right.

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

  • affirming
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bad friend text icon
  • pink background pixelated text
  • split screen person and text
  • arm raised near head icon

Objects

  • text bars

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • A bad friend
  • is someone who
  • knows all about
  • you but loves
  • you anyway!

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • light brown hair
  • dark clothing
  • arm raised near head
  • bright pink background
  • black rectangular text bars
  • white pixelated text
  • six text blocks
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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
20081229184221950706151
Archive entry
20081229184221950706151.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081229184221950706151.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081229184221950706151.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016