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Two teddy bears holding heart-shaped objects with changing text overlays.

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Two teddy bears holding heart-shaped objects with changing text overlays.

Two teddy bears holding heart-shaped objects with changing text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "bff 4 life" to "xoxo"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay changes from "bff 4 life" to "xoxo"

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text overlays on chest area

Dense Caption

Two brown teddy bears stand side-by-side, each holding a heart-shaped object. The left bear has darker fur on its ears and face; the right bear has lighter fur with a red bow on its head. Both hearts have white centers with dark borders. In one view, purple text "bff 4 life" appears over the right bear's chest. In another view, purple text "xoxo" appears across both bears' chests. The background is plain white.

Description

  • Two teddy bears holding heart-shaped objects with changing text overlays.

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

  • teddy bears heart text bff
  • bears xoxo hearts

Visible Text

  • bff 4 life
  • xoxo

Visually Supported Entities

  • teddy bears
  • hearts

Wordwall

  • two teddy bears
  • heart-shaped objects
  • red bow on head
  • purple text overlays
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080510173527153601435
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
cf364b637cc9d3d2
SHA-256
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August 5, 2026 at 14:00 UTC
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Two teddy bears holding heart-shaped objects with changing text overlays.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:53 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,746 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 595

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • heart shaped objects (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • teddy bears (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • text changes from "bff 4 life" to "xoxo"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay changes from "bff 4 life" to "xoxo"

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • purple
  • white
  • dark brown

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text overlays on chest area

Dense Caption

Two brown teddy bears stand side-by-side, each holding a heart-shaped object. The left bear has darker fur on its ears and face; the right bear has lighter fur with a red bow on its head. Both hearts have white centers with dark borders. In one view, purple text "bff 4 life" appears over the right bear's chest. In another view, purple text "xoxo" appears across both bears' chests. The background is plain white.

Description

  • Two teddy bears holding heart-shaped objects with changing text overlays.

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

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teddy bears heart text bff
  • bears xoxo hearts

Objects

  • heart-shaped objects

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • teddy bears
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • bff 4 life
  • xoxo

Visually Supported Entities

  • teddy bears
  • hearts

Wordwall

  • two teddy bears
  • heart-shaped objects
  • red bow on head
  • purple text overlays
  • white background
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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
20080510173527153601435
Archive entry
20080510173527153601435.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080510173527153601435.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080510173527153601435.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016