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Three people stand side-by-side against a white background, with purple pixelated text on a yellow field surrounding them.

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Three people stand side-by-side against a white background, with purple pixelated text on a yellow field surrounding them.

Three people stand side-by-side against a white background, with purple pixelated text on a yellow field surrounding them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-to-right arrangement
  • text surrounding central image

Dense Caption

Left person wears blue top; middle person has long light brown hair and silver dress; right person wears red shirt under white jacket. Background is solid bright yellow. Text elements: 'TINK' (top-right), 'huey' (middle-right), 'eirelio' (bottom-left), 'LILLY' (lower-bottom-left), 'BFFL!!!!' (bottom-right). All text uses purple pixelated font with jagged edges. Image has low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Three people stand side-by-side against a white background, with purple pixelated text on a yellow field surrounding them.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three people yellow background purple text
  • TINK huey eirelio LILLY BFFL
  • blue top silver dress red shirt white jacket

Visible Text

  • TINK
  • huey
  • eirelio
  • LILLY
  • BFFL!!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • TINK
  • huey
  • eirelio
  • LILLY
  • BFFL!!!!

Wordwall

  • three people
  • blue top
  • silver dress
  • red shirt
  • white jacket
  • yellow background
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • TINK
  • huey
  • eirelio
  • LILLY
  • BFFL!!!!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712231931401213283385
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
e8790e1e24be8d18
SHA-256
e8790e1e24be8d186044e8a3a6b1589133b3dc39b8637311082bd3f36e0e30fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Three people stand side-by-side against a white background, with purple pixelated text on a yellow field surrounding them.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,523 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 682

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky pixels (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • three people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple
  • blue
  • silver
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • left-to-right arrangement
  • text surrounding central image

Dense Caption

Left person wears blue top; middle person has long light brown hair and silver dress; right person wears red shirt under white jacket. Background is solid bright yellow. Text elements: 'TINK' (top-right), 'huey' (middle-right), 'eirelio' (bottom-left), 'LILLY' (lower-bottom-left), 'BFFL!!!!' (bottom-right). All text uses purple pixelated font with jagged edges. Image has low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Three people stand side-by-side against a white background, with purple pixelated text on a yellow field surrounding them.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three people yellow background purple text
  • TINK huey eirelio LILLY BFFL
  • blue top silver dress red shirt white jacket

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky pixels

Subjects

  • three people

Visible Text

  • TINK
  • huey
  • eirelio
  • LILLY
  • BFFL!!!!

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  • TINK
  • huey
  • eirelio
  • LILLY
  • BFFL!!!!

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  • three people
  • blue top
  • silver dress
  • red shirt
  • white jacket
  • yellow background
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • TINK
  • huey
  • eirelio
  • LILLY
  • BFFL!!!!
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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
200712231931401213283385
Archive entry
200712231931401213283385.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712231931401213283385.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712231931401213283385.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016