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Pixelated text on pink background with two white heart icons, displaying 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' in black block letters.

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Pixelated text on pink background with two white heart icons, displaying 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' in black block letters.

Pixelated text on pink background with two white heart icons, displaying 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' in black block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • two heart icons below text

Dense Caption

Pink background with black pixelated text reading 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' repeated twice horizontally. Each repetition has a white pixelated heart icon below it. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The word 'i' is lowercase, 'bffs' is lowercase, and '&' is a standard ampersand. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text on pink background with two white heart icons, displaying 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' in black block letters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my friends my friends i are bffs
  • pink background pixelated text
  • white heart icons
  • low-resolution block font
  • repeated text hearts
  • bffs text
  • my friends bffs
  • i are bffs

Objects

  • heart icons

Visible Text

  • my friends my friends
  • &
  • i are
  • bffs

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • white pixelated hearts
  • my friends my friends
  • & i are bffs
  • repeated text
  • low-resolution font
  • two heart icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802281334431284276275
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
254 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fa683f6d2521b55b9b5ec130e561a1a8954bb6d1da04d090f08fb438abdef707.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
fa683f6d2521b55b
SHA-256
fa683f6d2521b55b9b5ec130e561a1a8954bb6d1da04d090f08fb438abdef707
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106695

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on pink background with two white heart icons, displaying 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' in black block letters.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,116 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 680

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart icons (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • two heart icons below text

Dense Caption

Pink background with black pixelated text reading 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' repeated twice horizontally. Each repetition has a white pixelated heart icon below it. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The word 'i' is lowercase, 'bffs' is lowercase, and '&' is a standard ampersand. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text on pink background with two white heart icons, displaying 'my friends my friends & i are bffs' in black block letters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • my friends my friends i are bffs
  • pink background pixelated text
  • white heart icons
  • low-resolution block font
  • repeated text hearts
  • bffs text
  • my friends bffs
  • i are bffs

Objects

  • heart icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • my friends my friends
  • &
  • i are
  • bffs

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • white pixelated hearts
  • my friends my friends
  • & i are bffs
  • repeated text
  • low-resolution font
  • two heart icons
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:22 UTC
Run
56
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200802281334431284276275
Archive entry
200802281334431284276275.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802281334431284276275.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802281334431284276275.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016