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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with pink and purple asterisks, showing two animation states differing in asterisk count.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with pink and purple asterisks, showing two animation states differing in asterisk count.

Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with pink and purple asterisks, showing two animation states differing in asterisk count. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • asterisk count changes
  • left state: four pink, one purple
  • right state: five pink, one purple

Animation Summary

The icon has two animation states: left state shows four pink asterisks and one purple asterisk; right state shows five pink asterisks and one purple asterisk.

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • asterisks below text
  • two animation states side-by-side

Dense Caption

Cyan background with black pixelated text: 'A&A' at top, '4 LIFE' below, 'I<333' beneath that, and 'MY BFFLZ' at bottom. Below 'MY BFFLZ' are five asterisks: four pink, one purple. Left animation state shows four pink asterisks and one purple asterisk; right animation state shows five pink asterisks and one purple asterisk. All text and symbols are static except for the asterisk count change.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with pink and purple asterisks, showing two animation states differing in asterisk count.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixelated text
  • A&A 4 LIFE I<333 MY BFFLZ
  • pink purple asterisks
  • asterisk count animation
  • text-based buddy icon
  • cyan black pink purple
  • I<333 MY BFFLZ
  • 4 LIFE A&A

Visible Text

  • A&A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<333
  • MY BFFLZ

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • A&A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<333
  • MY BFFLZ
  • pink asterisks
  • purple asterisk
  • five asterisks
  • four pink asterisks
  • one purple asterisk
  • animation state change
  • asterisk count change

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809221412081292479378
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
989 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d27f858b50e729e6a7e2939039a56acf4a650c4eb09235b3318ca26ef987899f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
d27f858b50e729e6
SHA-256
d27f858b50e729e6a7e2939039a56acf4a650c4eb09235b3318ca26ef987899f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122842

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with pink and purple asterisks, showing two animation states differing in asterisk count.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,696 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 806

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • asterisk count changes (other, 0.80)
  • left state four pink one purple (other, 0.80)
  • right state five pink one purple (other, 0.80)
  • animated symbols (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static text (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • asterisk count changes
  • left state: four pink, one purple
  • right state: five pink, one purple

Animation Summary

The icon has two animation states: left state shows four pink asterisks and one purple asterisk; right state shows five pink asterisks and one purple asterisk.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • asterisks below text
  • two animation states side-by-side

Dense Caption

Cyan background with black pixelated text: 'A&A' at top, '4 LIFE' below, 'I<333' beneath that, and 'MY BFFLZ' at bottom. Below 'MY BFFLZ' are five asterisks: four pink, one purple. Left animation state shows four pink asterisks and one purple asterisk; right animation state shows five pink asterisks and one purple asterisk. All text and symbols are static except for the asterisk count change.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with pink and purple asterisks, showing two animation states differing in asterisk count.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixelated text
  • A&A 4 LIFE I<333 MY BFFLZ
  • pink purple asterisks
  • asterisk count animation
  • text-based buddy icon
  • cyan black pink purple
  • I<333 MY BFFLZ
  • 4 LIFE A&A

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static text
  • animated symbols

Visible Text

  • A&A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<333
  • MY BFFLZ

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • A&A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<333
  • MY BFFLZ
  • pink asterisks
  • purple asterisk
  • five asterisks
  • four pink asterisks
  • one purple asterisk
  • animation state change
  • asterisk count change
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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
200809221412081292479378
Archive entry
200809221412081292479378.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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

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