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Pixelated beach sunset with palm tree on left, cyan background with yellow text reading 'were bestfriends forever', 'i lyias', 'love u too', 'asian {kim}', and 'mexican {nicole}'

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Pixelated beach sunset with palm tree on left, cyan background with yellow text reading 'were bestfriends forever', 'i lyias', 'love u too', 'asian {kim}', and 'mexican {nicole}'

Pixelated beach sunset with palm tree on left, cyan background with yellow text reading 'were bestfriends forever', 'i lyias', 'love u too', 'asian {kim}', and 'mexican {nicole}'.…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split : left beach scene, right text block

Dense Caption

Left panel shows pixelated beach scene at sunset: single palm tree leaning right over water reflecting orange sky. Right panel has cyan background with yellow pixelated text in three rows: top row reads 'were bestfriends forever' (with 'were' misspelled), middle row reads 'i lyias' and 'love u too', bottom row reads 'asian {kim}' and 'mexican {nicole}'. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font. Image is static with no animation.

Description

Pixelated beach sunset with palm tree on left, cyan background with yellow text reading 'were bestfriends forever', 'i lyias', 'love u too', 'asian {kim}', and 'mexican {nicole}'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200805021519312043113716
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach sunset palm tree cyan background yellow text
  • were bestfriends forever i lyias love u too
  • asian {kim} mexican {nicole}
  • pixelated low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • text 'were' misspelled as 'werc'
  • text 'lyias' likely intended as 'love you' or similar
  • quarantined composition: split panel: left beach scene, right text block

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • palm tree

Visible Text

  • were bestfriends forever
  • i lyias
  • love u too
  • asian {kim}
  • mexican {nicole}

Visually Supported Entities

  • {kim}
  • {nicole}

Wordwall

  • beach sunset
  • palm tree
  • cyan background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • were bestfriends forever
  • i lyias
  • love u too
  • asian {kim}
  • mexican {nicole}

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805021519312043113716
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
b90e3645ca96fe10
SHA-256
b90e3645ca96fe10daa7a0f0f6499e4bcce6aa6d5b76dd9c860e3c4bab1d4dab
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087288

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated beach sunset with palm tree on left, cyan background with yellow text reading 'were bestfriends forever', 'i lyias', 'love u too', 'asian {kim}', and 'mexican {nicole}'

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 798

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • beach (object, 0.80)
  • sky (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • kim (subject, 0.80)
  • nicole (subject, 0.80)
  • palm tree (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • split : left beach scene, right text block

Dense Caption

Left panel shows pixelated beach scene at sunset: single palm tree leaning right over water reflecting orange sky. Right panel has cyan background with yellow pixelated text in three rows: top row reads 'were bestfriends forever' (with 'were' misspelled), middle row reads 'i lyias' and 'love u too', bottom row reads 'asian {kim}' and 'mexican {nicole}'. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font. Image is static with no animation.

Description

Pixelated beach sunset with palm tree on left, cyan background with yellow text reading 'were bestfriends forever', 'i lyias', 'love u too', 'asian {kim}', and 'mexican {nicole}'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200805021519312043113716
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach sunset palm tree cyan background yellow text
  • were bestfriends forever i lyias love u too
  • asian {kim} mexican {nicole}
  • pixelated low-resolution buddy icon

Objects

  • beach
  • water
  • sky

Preprocessing Notes

  • text 'were' misspelled as 'werc'
  • text 'lyias' likely intended as 'love you' or similar
  • quarantined composition: split panel: left beach scene, right text block

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • palm tree
  • {kim}
  • {nicole}

Visible Text

  • were bestfriends forever
  • i lyias
  • love u too
  • asian {kim}
  • mexican {nicole}

Visually Supported Entities

  • {kim}
  • {nicole}

Wordwall

  • beach sunset
  • palm tree
  • cyan background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • were bestfriends forever
  • i lyias
  • love u too
  • asian {kim}
  • mexican {nicole}
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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
200805021519312043113716
Archive entry
200805021519312043113716.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805021519312043113716.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805021519312043113716.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016