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Pixelated text and star symbols on a bright pink background with two variations of yellow/orange stars.

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Pixelated text and star symbols on a bright pink background with two variations of yellow/orange stars.

Pixelated text and star symbols on a bright pink background with two variations of yellow/orange stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

  • Two variations of the same static image; left shows yellow star, right shows orange star.

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • two variations side-by-side

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays white pixelated text 'ariana+ kymberly+ ashley =' above 'BFFAE' in all capital letters. Left variation shows a solid yellow five-pointed star to the right of 'BFFAE'; right variation replaces it with an orange five-pointed star. Both variations share identical text layout and background color. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style typical of early 2000s instant messaging interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols on a bright pink background with two variations of yellow/orange stars.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805181522151130121770

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • BFFAE star variation
  • yellow and orange stars

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Visible Text

  • ariana+
  • kymberly+
  • ashley
  • =
  • BFFAE

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'ariana+ kymberly+ ashley ='
  • 'BFFAE'
  • yellow five-pointed star
  • orange five-pointed star
  • blocky retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805181522151130121770
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
374 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d95a67a0e022b83a2b2782e553f650ee1887a4547668bb91e81929e0ef8c0446.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
d95a67a0e022b83a
SHA-256
d95a67a0e022b83a2b2782e553f650ee1887a4547668bb91e81929e0ef8c0446
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107990

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Pixelated text and star symbols on a bright pink background with two variations of yellow/orange stars.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,545 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 610

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • five pointed star (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • Two variations of the same static image; left shows yellow star, right shows orange star.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • white
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • two variations side-by-side

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays white pixelated text 'ariana+ kymberly+ ashley =' above 'BFFAE' in all capital letters. Left variation shows a solid yellow five-pointed star to the right of 'BFFAE'; right variation replaces it with an orange five-pointed star. Both variations share identical text layout and background color. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style typical of early 2000s instant messaging interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols on a bright pink background with two variations of yellow/orange stars.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805181522151130121770

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • BFFAE star variation
  • yellow and orange stars

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • ariana+
  • kymberly+
  • ashley
  • =
  • BFFAE

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'ariana+ kymberly+ ashley ='
  • 'BFFAE'
  • yellow five-pointed star
  • orange five-pointed star
  • blocky retro digital font
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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
200805181522151130121770
Archive entry
200805181522151130121770.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#200805181522151130121770.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805181522151130121770.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016