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Animated sequence showing two celebrity faces and a cartoon banana with 'BFF' text, followed by a monkey pointing.

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Animated sequence showing two celebrity faces and a cartoon banana with 'BFF' text, followed by a monkey pointing.

Animated sequence showing two celebrity faces and a cartoon banana with 'BFF' text, followed by a monkey pointing. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static frames only

Composition

  • top three
  • bottom one

Dense Caption

Top row: left frame shows a person with brown hair in a white shirt; middle frame shows a person with layered brown hair. Right frame shows a yellow cartoon banana on orange background with black 'BFF' text and a brown cartoon character with wide grin. Bottom row: single frame of brown cartoon monkey pointing right, mouth open showing teeth.

Description

  • Animated sequence showing two celebrity faces and a cartoon banana with 'BFF' text, followed by a monkey pointing.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Justin Bieber
  • Leona Lewis

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804032036221787970438
  • FranksIcons
  • aim buddy icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon banana BFF
  • celebrity cartoon monkey
  • BFF text banana character
  • monkey pointing cartoon

Objects

  • monkey

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: bottom row one panel
  • quarantined composition: top row three panels

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • BFF

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrity (likely Justin Bieber)
  • celebrity (likely Leona Lewis)

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • layered hair
  • yellow banana
  • orange background
  • black BFF text
  • brown cartoon character
  • pointing monkey

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804032036221787970438
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f7/f7272a8c8ca607192a71bd112be8cc925d59fd65217b7d5b499c1aa1227df9af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
f7272a8c8ca60719
SHA-256
f7272a8c8ca607192a71bd112be8cc925d59fd65217b7d5b499c1aa1227df9af
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129582

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated sequence showing two celebrity faces and a cartoon banana with 'BFF' text, followed by a monkey pointing.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 23:02 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,009 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 636

Review tags

  • pointing (action, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • banana (object, 0.80)
  • character (object, 0.80)
  • monkey (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon banana (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon monkey (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pointing

Animation

  • static frames only

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • yellow
  • orange
  • black

Composition

  • top three
  • bottom one

Dense Caption

Top row: left frame shows a person with brown hair in a white shirt; middle frame shows a person with layered brown hair. Right frame shows a yellow cartoon banana on orange background with black 'BFF' text and a brown cartoon character with wide grin. Bottom row: single frame of brown cartoon monkey pointing right, mouth open showing teeth.

Description

  • Animated sequence showing two celebrity faces and a cartoon banana with 'BFF' text, followed by a monkey pointing.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Justin Bieber
  • Leona Lewis

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804032036221787970438
  • FranksIcons
  • aim buddy icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon banana BFF
  • celebrity cartoon monkey
  • BFF text banana character
  • monkey pointing cartoon

Objects

  • banana
  • character
  • monkey

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: bottom row one panel
  • quarantined composition: top row three panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • person
  • cartoon banana
  • cartoon character
  • cartoon monkey

Visible Text

  • BFF

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrity (likely Justin Bieber)
  • celebrity (likely Leona Lewis)

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • layered hair
  • yellow banana
  • orange background
  • black BFF text
  • brown cartoon character
  • pointing monkey
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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
200804032036221787970438
Archive entry
200804032036221787970438.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200804032036221787970438.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804032036221787970438.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016