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Pixelated text displays 'bestfriends' with a green heart symbol, followed by names 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', 'george' in purple on a cyan background.

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Pixelated text displays 'bestfriends' with a green heart symbol, followed by names 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', 'george' in purple on a cyan background.

Pixelated text displays 'bestfriends' with a green heart symbol, followed by names 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', 'george' in purple on a cyan background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • repeated text
  • heart symbol over text

Dense Caption

The image shows a cyan background with purple pixelated text. At the top, 'bestfriends' is repeated twice with a green heart symbol replacing the 'i' in the first 'bestfriends'. Below this, four lines of text read 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', and 'george', each repeated twice side-by-side. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The green heart symbol is positioned over the 'i' in the first 'bestfriends' text. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'bestfriends' with a green heart symbol, followed by names 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', 'george' in purple on a cyan background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text green heart
  • bestfriends heart symbol micah joey victor and george
  • repeated text cyan background
  • pixelated heart symbol bestfriends

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text columns
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in rows

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • bestfriends
  • micah
  • joey
  • victor and
  • george

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • green heart symbol
  • bestfriends repeated
  • micah
  • joey
  • victor and
  • george
  • blocky font
  • repeated text
  • heart replaces i
  • low-resolution graphics

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090419173624667161343
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
314 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
bf783f9fee9212fd
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
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1312
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
0.000078

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July 29, 2026 at 08:21 UTC
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1245
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July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
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Pixelated text displays 'bestfriends' with a green heart symbol, followed by names 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', 'george' in purple on a cyan background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,723 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 759

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • text
  • repeated text
  • heart symbol over text

Dense Caption

The image shows a cyan background with purple pixelated text. At the top, 'bestfriends' is repeated twice with a green heart symbol replacing the 'i' in the first 'bestfriends'. Below this, four lines of text read 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', and 'george', each repeated twice side-by-side. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The green heart symbol is positioned over the 'i' in the first 'bestfriends' text. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'bestfriends' with a green heart symbol, followed by names 'micah', 'joey', 'victor and', 'george' in purple on a cyan background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

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  • bestfriends heart symbol micah joey victor and george
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  • pixelated heart symbol bestfriends

Objects

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Subjects

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  • joey
  • victor and
  • george

Wordwall

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  • green heart symbol
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  • joey
  • victor and
  • george
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  • heart replaces i
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
20090419173624667161343
Archive entry
20090419173624667161343.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090419173624667161343.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090419173624667161343.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016