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Pixelated text "better than you" on blue and pink backgrounds with a white star in the top-right corner.

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Pixelated text "better than you" on blue and pink backgrounds with a white star in the top-right corner.

Pixelated text "better than you" on blue and pink backgrounds with a white star in the top-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text centered in each quadrant
  • stars positioned below text or at bottom center

Dense Caption

The image displays four distinct sections. Top-left section has cyan background with black pixelated text "better than you" and a small white five-pointed star below the text. Top-right section shows light blue background with identical black pixelated text "better than you" but no star. Bottom-left section features pink background with same black pixelated text "better than you" and a small cyan five-pointed star at the bottom center. Bottom-right section has light blue background with identical black pixelated text "better than you" and no star. All sections use consistent pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text "better than you" on blue and pink backgrounds with a white star in the top-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709220850361198686978

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • better than you text star
  • cyan pink light blue backgrounds
  • pixel art better than you
  • four quadrant better than you

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • better than you

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink background
  • light blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • "better than you"
  • white five-pointed star
  • cyan five-pointed star
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709220850361198686978
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
663 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f1/f163b9e51ef2bff82c91c46701bc2335a9574e2928e23fae5c9c7c310e610728.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
f163b9e51ef2bff8
SHA-256
f163b9e51ef2bff82c91c46701bc2335a9574e2928e23fae5c9c7c310e610728
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096835

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text "better than you" on blue and pink backgrounds with a white star in the top-right corner.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:45 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,705 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 712

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • five pointed star (object, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • light blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text centered in each quadrant
  • stars positioned below text or at bottom center

Dense Caption

The image displays four distinct sections. Top-left section has cyan background with black pixelated text "better than you" and a small white five-pointed star below the text. Top-right section shows light blue background with identical black pixelated text "better than you" but no star. Bottom-left section features pink background with same black pixelated text "better than you" and a small cyan five-pointed star at the bottom center. Bottom-right section has light blue background with identical black pixelated text "better than you" and no star. All sections use consistent pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text "better than you" on blue and pink backgrounds with a white star in the top-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709220850361198686978

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • better than you text star
  • cyan pink light blue backgrounds
  • pixel art better than you
  • four quadrant better than you

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • text
  • star

Visible Text

  • better than you

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink background
  • light blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • "better than you"
  • white five-pointed star
  • cyan five-pointed star
  • pixel art style
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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
200709220850361198686978
Archive entry
200709220850361198686978.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709220850361198686978.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709220850361198686978.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016