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Static image with red text 'BROS' top-left, 'before' top-right, and 'HOES' bottom-center over a black-and-white patterned background.

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Static image with red text 'BROS' top-left, 'before' top-right, and 'HOES' bottom-center over a black-and-white patterned background.

Static image with red text 'BROS' top-left, 'before' top-right, and 'HOES' bottom-center over a black-and-white patterned background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text top-left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-center
  • patterned background
  • solid gray rectangle lower right

Dense Caption

Red block letters spell 'BROS' in the upper left corner of a static image. Red lowercase letters spell 'before' in the upper right corner. Red block letters spell 'HOES' at the bottom center. The background consists of repeating abstract black and white shapes resembling stylized faces or masks with visible pixelation. A solid gray rectangle occupies the lower right portion of the frame, partially obscuring the patterned background.

Description

  • Static image with red text 'BROS' top-left, 'before' top-right, and 'HOES' bottom-center over a black-and-white patterned 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709211525181409877462

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bros before hoes
  • red text black and white patterns
  • stylized faces gray rectangle
  • pixelated patterned background

Visible Text

  • BROS
  • before
  • HOES

Wordwall

  • red text
  • BROS
  • before
  • HOES
  • black-and-white patterns
  • stylized faces
  • pixelated
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211525181409877462
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c738af460c5cbe3f14445087d051387440fd944decaa4e614b38aa48367b29d8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
c738af460c5cbe3f
SHA-256
c738af460c5cbe3f14445087d051387440fd944decaa4e614b38aa48367b29d8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.195081

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Static image with red text 'BROS' top-left, 'before' top-right, and 'HOES' bottom-center over a black-and-white patterned background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,080 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 655

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text top-left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-center
  • patterned background
  • solid gray rectangle lower right

Dense Caption

Red block letters spell 'BROS' in the upper left corner of a static image. Red lowercase letters spell 'before' in the upper right corner. Red block letters spell 'HOES' at the bottom center. The background consists of repeating abstract black and white shapes resembling stylized faces or masks with visible pixelation. A solid gray rectangle occupies the lower right portion of the frame, partially obscuring the patterned background.

Description

  • Static image with red text 'BROS' top-left, 'before' top-right, and 'HOES' bottom-center over a black-and-white patterned 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709211525181409877462

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bros before hoes
  • red text black and white patterns
  • stylized faces gray rectangle
  • pixelated patterned background

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • repeating patterns

Visible Text

  • BROS
  • before
  • HOES

Wordwall

  • red text
  • BROS
  • before
  • HOES
  • black-and-white patterns
  • stylized faces
  • pixelated
  • gray rectangle
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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
200709211525181409877462
Archive entry
200709211525181409877462.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709211525181409877462.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709211525181409877462.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016