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Pixelated image with 'best friends' text on black bar over blurred background of figures and light effects.

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Pixelated image with 'best friends' text on black bar over blurred background of figures and light effects.

Pixelated image with 'best friends' text on black bar over blurred background of figures and light effects. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal bar
  • heart below bar
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with 'best friends' text in white lowercase letters on a black rectangular bar. Background features blurred figures with pink, orange, and yellow tones above the bar, and a white heart shape with gray outlines below the bar. The overall background is dark gray with vertical black stripes. Text is centered horizontally. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image with 'best friends' text on black bar over blurred background of figures and light effects.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901191452001966166066

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends text
  • heart shape
  • pixelated background
  • blurred figures
  • white lowercase text
  • black bar
  • pink orange yellow tones
  • low resolution

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • text overlay

Subjects

  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • best friends

Wordwall

  • 'best friends' text
  • white lowercase letters
  • black rectangular bar
  • blurred figures
  • pink/orange/yellow tones
  • white heart shape
  • gray outlines
  • dark gray background
  • vertical black stripes
  • low resolution
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901191452001966166066
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cb/cb08e68160e16af9151f72f477ee2681fdbcd664e2bb83cb5f3b412f22608055.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
cb08e68160e16af9
SHA-256
cb08e68160e16af9151f72f477ee2681fdbcd664e2bb83cb5f3b412f22608055
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
September 1, 2026 at 10:11 UTC
Run
15972
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000175

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 23:09 UTC
Run
1281
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 06:37 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with 'best friends' text on black bar over blurred background of figures and light effects.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,266 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 747

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • text bar (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • figures (subject, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • pink
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal bar
  • heart below bar
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with 'best friends' text in white lowercase letters on a black rectangular bar. Background features blurred figures with pink, orange, and yellow tones above the bar, and a white heart shape with gray outlines below the bar. The overall background is dark gray with vertical black stripes. Text is centered horizontally. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image with 'best friends' text on black bar over blurred background of figures and light effects.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901191452001966166066

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends text
  • heart shape
  • pixelated background
  • blurred figures
  • white lowercase text
  • black bar
  • pink orange yellow tones
  • low resolution

Objects

  • text bar
  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • figures
  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • best friends

Wordwall

  • 'best friends' text
  • white lowercase letters
  • black rectangular bar
  • blurred figures
  • pink/orange/yellow tones
  • white heart shape
  • gray outlines
  • dark gray background
  • vertical black stripes
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
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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
200901191452001966166066
Archive entry
200901191452001966166066.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901191452001966166066.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901191452001966166066.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016