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Green pixelated text on brown background reads 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' with pink accents on 'Buds' in each repetition.

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Green pixelated text on brown background reads 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' with pink accents on 'Buds' in each repetition.

Green pixelated text on brown background reads 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' with pink accents on 'Buds' in each repetition. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text on brown background displays 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' repeated three times horizontally and three times vertically. Each 'Best Buds' has a pink accent on the 's'. The text is arranged in a 3x3 grid pattern. The background is solid brown. The text uses a retro digital font style. The pink accents appear as small pixel clusters on the 's' of 'Buds' in all repetitions. The text is consistently aligned in rows and columns. The overall composition is symmetrical with uniform spacing between text elements.

Description

  • Green pixelated text on brown background reads 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' with pink accents on 'Buds' in each repetition.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • JamesW217 LeeC64 Best Buds
  • green pixelated text brown background
  • text
  • pink accents Best Buds

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte present
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • JamesW217
  • and
  • LeeC64
  • are
  • Best Buds

Visually Supported Entities

  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • brown background
  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64
  • Best Buds
  • pink accents
  • retro digital font
  • symmetrical
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201202291114271867008676
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
537 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3efbaeac99bc02b46343fd3f16f0322ff88b955db91afd8d6d3187f7ac7f136.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
b3efbaeac99bc02b
SHA-256
b3efbaeac99bc02b46343fd3f16f0322ff88b955db91afd8d6d3187f7ac7f136
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075368

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927614onnx/unsafe0.075368onnx/nsfw0.042863onnx/nsfl0.032505
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Green pixelated text on brown background reads 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' with pink accents on 'Buds' in each repetition.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:53 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,613 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 850

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • jamesw217 (subject, 0.80)
  • leec64 (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • green
  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text on brown background displays 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' repeated three times horizontally and three times vertically. Each 'Best Buds' has a pink accent on the 's'. The text is arranged in a 3x3 grid pattern. The background is solid brown. The text uses a retro digital font style. The pink accents appear as small pixel clusters on the 's' of 'Buds' in all repetitions. The text is consistently aligned in rows and columns. The overall composition is symmetrical with uniform spacing between text elements.

Description

  • Green pixelated text on brown background reads 'JamesW217 and LeeC64 are Best Buds' with pink accents on 'Buds' in each repetition.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • friendly
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • JamesW217 LeeC64 Best Buds
  • green pixelated text brown background
  • text
  • pink accents Best Buds

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte present
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
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  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid text

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64

Visible Text

  • JamesW217
  • and
  • LeeC64
  • are
  • Best Buds

Visually Supported Entities

  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • brown background
  • JamesW217
  • LeeC64
  • Best Buds
  • pink accents
  • retro digital font
  • symmetrical
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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
201202291114271867008676
Archive entry
201202291114271867008676.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201202291114271867008676.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201202291114271867008676.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016