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Static pixel art displays blue text names and 'BFF!!!' inside a bright green jagged border on black background.

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Static pixel art displays blue text names and 'BFF!!!' inside a bright green jagged border on black background.

Static pixel art displays blue text names and 'BFF!!!' inside a bright green jagged border on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Bright green jagged border surrounds solid black background. Blue pixelated text lists names: Lily, Mike, Larwence (likely Lawrence), Brandon, BFF!!! repeated twice in vertical columns. Text is arranged in two identical side-by-side sections with no visible animation changes across observations. All elements are static and consistent between frames.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays blue text names and 'BFF!!!' inside a bright green jagged border 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

  • blue text names green border black background
  • two BFF!!!
  • pixel art jagged border
  • Lily Mike Larwence Brandon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two columns BFF!!!

Subjects

  • border

Visible Text

  • Lily
  • Mike
  • Larwence
  • Brandon
  • BFF!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Lily
  • Mike
  • Larwence
  • Brandon

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • green jagged border
  • Lily
  • Mike
  • Larwence
  • Brandon
  • BFF!!!
  • two

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080523174211762044411
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c6446238020d4b8e22260e7f2cae8a4681f77e037f9ca13ed1b1d2b07f4c96fb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
c6446238020d4b8e
SHA-256
c6446238020d4b8e22260e7f2cae8a4681f77e037f9ca13ed1b1d2b07f4c96fb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088910

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays blue text names and 'BFF!!!' inside a bright green jagged border on black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:30 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,205 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 593

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • jagged border (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • border (subject, 0.80)
  • text names (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Bright green jagged border surrounds solid black background. Blue pixelated text lists names: Lily, Mike, Larwence (likely Lawrence), Brandon, BFF!!! repeated twice in vertical columns. Text is arranged in two identical side-by-side sections with no visible animation changes across observations. All elements are static and consistent between frames.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays blue text names and 'BFF!!!' inside a bright green jagged border 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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text names green border black background
  • two BFF!!!
  • pixel art jagged border
  • Lily Mike Larwence Brandon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two columns BFF!!!

Style

  • pixel art
  • jagged border

Subjects

  • text names
  • border

Visible Text

  • Lily
  • Mike
  • Larwence
  • Brandon
  • BFF!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Lily
  • Mike
  • Larwence
  • Brandon

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • green jagged border
  • Lily
  • Mike
  • Larwence
  • Brandon
  • BFF!!!
  • two
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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
20080523174211762044411
Archive entry
20080523174211762044411.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080523174211762044411.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080523174211762044411.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016