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Red pixelated text on black background reads 'true friends will go to the ends of the earth' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'true' on the left side.

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Red pixelated text on black background reads 'true friends will go to the ends of the earth' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'true' on the left side.

Red pixelated text on black background reads 'true friends will go to the ends of the earth' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'true' on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • five lines
  • left-right text alignment
  • heart symbol in place of 'u'

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated text. Left side displays 'true' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u', followed by 'friends', 'will go to', 'the ends of', 'the earth'. Right side displays 'true', 'friends', 'will go to', 'the ends o', 'the earth'. Text is arranged in five lines. The heart symbol is a solid red pixelated shape. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The right side's fourth line ends with 'o' instead of 'the'.

Description

Red pixelated text on black background reads 'true friends will go to the ends of the earth' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'true' on the left side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • true friends will go to the ends of the earth
  • heart symbol true friends
  • red pixelated text black background
  • the ends of the earth
  • blocky digital font
  • left side heart
  • right side o
  • five lines text

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • true
  • friends
  • will go to
  • the ends of
  • the earth
  • the ends o

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • true friends
  • will go to
  • the ends of
  • the earth
  • blocky digital font
  • left side heart
  • right side o
  • five lines
  • retro style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708231709591116204838
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
302 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 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
c2a8c9d8b4a7277d
SHA-256
c2a8c9d8b4a7277d812644d85c47e5c3cb9eae262c9fc980c3d92f506af7885e
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated text on black background reads 'true friends will go to the ends of the earth' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'true' on the left side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,874 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 724

Review tags

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  • affirmative (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • red
  • black

Composition

  • five lines
  • left-right text alignment
  • heart symbol in place of 'u'

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated text. Left side displays 'true' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u', followed by 'friends', 'will go to', 'the ends of', 'the earth'. Right side displays 'true', 'friends', 'will go to', 'the ends o', 'the earth'. Text is arranged in five lines. The heart symbol is a solid red pixelated shape. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The right side's fourth line ends with 'o' instead of 'the'.

Description

Red pixelated text on black background reads 'true friends will go to the ends of the earth' with a heart symbol replacing the 'u' in 'true' on the left side.

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

Mood

  • sentimental
  • affirmative

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  • heart symbol true friends
  • red pixelated text black background
  • the ends of the earth
  • blocky digital font
  • left side heart
  • right side o
  • five lines text

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  • blocky
  • retro digital

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  • text
  • heart symbol

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  • will go to
  • the ends of
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  • the ends o

Wordwall

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  • true friends
  • will go to
  • the ends of
  • the earth
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  • left side heart
  • right side o
  • five lines
  • retro style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:48 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
200708231709591116204838
Archive entry
200708231709591116204838.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708231709591116204838.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708231709591116204838.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016