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Pixelated green text lists names beneath 'besties<3' on blue and purple backgrounds with star symbols.

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Pixelated green text lists names beneath 'besties<3' on blue and purple backgrounds with star symbols.

Pixelated green text lists names beneath 'besties<3' on blue and purple backgrounds with star symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star symbol changes color between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • The star symbol next to 'erin' changes from pink in the top-left quadrant to blue in the bottom-left quadrant.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text stacked vertically
  • star symbols next to 'erin'

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text displays 'besties<3' at the top of four quadrants. Below, the names 'jennie', 'monica', 'molly', and 'erin' appear in sequence. The top-left and bottom-left quadrants have blue backgrounds; the top-right and bottom-right quadrants have purple backgrounds. A pink star symbol appears next to 'erin' in the top-left quadrant, and a blue star symbol appears next to 'erin' in the bottom-left quadrant. The text and star symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated green text lists names beneath 'besties<3' on blue and purple backgrounds with star symbols.

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
  • 20100512132701606041422
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • besties<3 names pink star blue background
  • besties<3 names blue star purple background
  • pixelated names star symbols
  • retro digital text star color change

Visible Text

  • besties<3
  • jennie
  • monica
  • molly
  • erin

Wordwall

  • besties<3
  • jennie
  • monica
  • molly
  • erin
  • pink star
  • blue star
  • blue background
  • purple background
  • pixelated text
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100512132701606041422
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
b198ac8fc9f12917
SHA-256
b198ac8fc9f12917f81860cf93ec7e04df03759b7e4e7bb15dd1f62ca568c056
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101070

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated green text lists names beneath 'besties<3' on blue and purple backgrounds with star symbols.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,419 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 774

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star symbol changes color between quadrants (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • names (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star symbol changes color between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • The star symbol next to 'erin' changes from pink in the top-left quadrant to blue in the bottom-left quadrant.

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text stacked vertically
  • star symbols next to 'erin'

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text displays 'besties<3' at the top of four quadrants. Below, the names 'jennie', 'monica', 'molly', and 'erin' appear in sequence. The top-left and bottom-left quadrants have blue backgrounds; the top-right and bottom-right quadrants have purple backgrounds. A pink star symbol appears next to 'erin' in the top-left quadrant, and a blue star symbol appears next to 'erin' in the bottom-left quadrant. The text and star symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated green text lists names beneath 'besties<3' on blue and purple backgrounds with star symbols.

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
  • 20100512132701606041422
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • besties<3 names pink star blue background
  • besties<3 names blue star purple background
  • pixelated names star symbols
  • retro digital text star color change

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • names
  • stars

Visible Text

  • besties<3
  • jennie
  • monica
  • molly
  • erin

Wordwall

  • besties<3
  • jennie
  • monica
  • molly
  • erin
  • pink star
  • blue star
  • blue background
  • purple background
  • pixelated text
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100512132701606041422
Archive entry
20100512132701606041422.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100512132701606041422.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100512132701606041422.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016