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Bright pink background with green pixelated text and blue/purple pixelated symbols arranged in two mirrored sections.

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Bright pink background with green pixelated text and blue/purple pixelated symbols arranged in two mirrored sections.

Bright pink background with green pixelated text and blue/purple pixelated symbols arranged in two mirrored sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two mirrored horizontal sections
  • text above symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Two identical horizontal sections. Each section contains green pixelated text: 'em & mods em & mods' on the top row and 'bffl' on the bottom row. Below the text, five pixelated symbols: two dark blue, one purple, two dark blue. Symbols are arranged left-to-right. Text and symbols are static. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible animation changes. All text is uppercase. Symbols resemble stylized hearts or flowers. Background is solid color with no gradients or patterns.

Description

  • Bright pink background with green pixelated text and blue/purple pixelated symbols arranged in two mirrored sections.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink pixelated text symbols
  • em & mods bffl
  • two identical sections
  • blue purple symbols

Visible Text

  • em & mods em & mods
  • bffl

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • blue/purple pixelated symbols
  • two identical horizontal sections
  • text: 'em & mods em & mods'
  • text: 'bffl'
  • five symbols per section
  • symbols: two dark blue, one purple
  • symbols left-to-right arrangement
  • all text uppercase
  • stylized heart-like symbols
  • solid background
  • no animation
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070817193335706797483
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
283 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b71281ea9c80e2e4f1e70c94ca2625e29f683f66694d41680fa83cf5c8afafb2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
b71281ea9c80e2e4
SHA-256
b71281ea9c80e2e4f1e70c94ca2625e29f683f66694d41680fa83cf5c8afafb2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.055809

OpenAI category scores

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

Bright pink background with green pixelated text and blue/purple pixelated symbols arranged in two mirrored sections.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 714

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • green
  • dark blue
  • purple

Composition

  • two mirrored horizontal sections
  • text above symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Two identical horizontal sections. Each section contains green pixelated text: 'em & mods em & mods' on the top row and 'bffl' on the bottom row. Below the text, five pixelated symbols: two dark blue, one purple, two dark blue. Symbols are arranged left-to-right. Text and symbols are static. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible animation changes. All text is uppercase. Symbols resemble stylized hearts or flowers. Background is solid color with no gradients or patterns.

Description

  • Bright pink background with green pixelated text and blue/purple pixelated symbols arranged in two mirrored sections.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink pixelated text symbols
  • em & mods bffl
  • two identical sections
  • blue purple symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • digital

Visible Text

  • em & mods em & mods
  • bffl

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • blue/purple pixelated symbols
  • two identical horizontal sections
  • text: 'em & mods em & mods'
  • text: 'bffl'
  • five symbols per section
  • symbols: two dark blue, one purple
  • symbols left-to-right arrangement
  • all text uppercase
  • stylized heart-like symbols
  • solid background
  • no animation
  • pixelated rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:01 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070817193335706797483
Archive entry
20070817193335706797483.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070817193335706797483.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070817193335706797483.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016