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Two pixelated ice cream cones with smiling faces under 'Esme's' text on pink background, next to a pink heart with 'BFFs' text on black background.

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Two pixelated ice cream cones with smiling faces under 'Esme's' text on pink background, next to a pink heart with 'BFFs' text on black background.

Two pixelated ice cream cones with smiling faces under 'Esme's' text on pink background, next to a pink heart with 'BFFs' text on black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right
  • text above subjects
  • text inside heart

Dense Caption

Left side: pink background with two pixelated ice cream cones, each with a smiling face, light brown cone, white scoop, green topping, and pink checkered base. Purple text 'Esme's' with green outline at top. Right side: black background with large pink heart outline, red text 'BFFs' with green outline inside heart. Both sides use 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette. No visible animation changes.

Description

Two pixelated ice cream cones with smiling faces under 'Esme's' text on pink background, next to a pink heart with 'BFFs' text on black background.

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

  • esmes bffs pixel art
  • ice cream cones heart bffs
  • pink heart bffs text
  • 8-bit esmes bffs

Objects

  • heart outline

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • Esme's
  • BFFs

Wordwall

  • pixelated ice cream cones
  • smiling faces
  • pink background
  • green outline text
  • red 'BFFs' text
  • pink heart outline
  • black background
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • checkered base
  • green-topped scoops

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100516123200950619815
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
f535e4ba2b8c8b74
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two pixelated ice cream cones with smiling faces under 'Esme's' text on pink background, next to a pink heart with 'BFFs' text on black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,936 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 651

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • checkered base (object, 0.80)
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  • heart outline (object, 0.80)
  • scoops (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
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  • ice cream cones (subject, 0.80)

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  • smiling

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  • pink
  • purple
  • green
  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • white

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right
  • text above subjects
  • text inside heart

Dense Caption

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Description

Two pixelated ice cream cones with smiling faces under 'Esme's' text on pink background, next to a pink heart with 'BFFs' text on black background.

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

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • ice cream cones heart bffs
  • pink heart bffs text
  • 8-bit esmes bffs

Objects

  • scoops
  • cones
  • checkered base
  • heart outline

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • ice cream cones
  • heart

Visible Text

  • Esme's
  • BFFs

Wordwall

  • pixelated ice cream cones
  • smiling faces
  • pink background
  • green outline text
  • red 'BFFs' text
  • pink heart outline
  • black background
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • checkered base
  • green-topped scoops
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100516123200950619815
Archive entry
20100516123200950619815.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100516123200950619815.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100516123200950619815.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016