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Pixelated text displays names and '3 bffs' over a teal pixel-art crowd on black background.

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Pixelated text displays names and '3 bffs' over a teal pixel-art crowd on black background.

Pixelated text displays names and '3 bffs' over a teal pixel-art crowd on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above crowd
  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text: top row "modeline" (two instances), middle rows "emily" and "claire" (each two instances), bottom row "(3 bffs)" (two instances). Below text, a teal pixel-art crowd of figures with raised hands. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays names and '3 bffs' over a teal pixel-art crowd on black 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background teal crowd
  • 3 bffs modeline emily claire
  • pixel art raised hands
  • teal pixel figures

Visible Text

  • modeline
  • emily
  • claire
  • (3 bffs)

Visually Supported Entities

  • modeline
  • emily
  • claire

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • teal pixel art
  • raised hands
  • (3 bffs)
  • modeline
  • emily
  • claire

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080621115809376756120
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
732 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c4171cb48999a0c52c525318331db0299db959e1ae058919fdf7e54156e12fbb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
c4171cb48999a0c5
SHA-256
c4171cb48999a0c52c525318331db0299db959e1ae058919fdf7e54156e12fbb
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000054

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.648397

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Pixelated text displays names and '3 bffs' over a teal pixel-art crowd on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,716 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 584

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • teal pixel figures with raised hands (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art crowd (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • teal

Composition

  • text above crowd
  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text: top row "modeline" (two instances), middle rows "emily" and "claire" (each two instances), bottom row "(3 bffs)" (two instances). Below text, a teal pixel-art crowd of figures with raised hands. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays names and '3 bffs' over a teal pixel-art crowd on black 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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background teal crowd
  • 3 bffs modeline emily claire
  • pixel art raised hands
  • teal pixel figures

Objects

  • teal pixel figures with raised hands

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • pixel-art crowd

Visible Text

  • modeline
  • emily
  • claire
  • (3 bffs)

Visually Supported Entities

  • modeline
  • emily
  • claire

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • teal pixel art
  • raised hands
  • (3 bffs)
  • modeline
  • emily
  • claire
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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
20080621115809376756120
Archive entry
20080621115809376756120.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080621115809376756120.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080621115809376756120.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016