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Pixelated text and symbols on a solid pink background with white characters.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a solid pink background with white characters.

Pixelated text and symbols on a solid pink background with white characters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical asterisk sets below

Dense Caption

Solid bright pink background. White pixelated text in four rows: first row "SEB, RMU, SEB, RMU," second row "MRW, BDW, MRW, BDW," third row "AEJ, JLV, &AEJ, JLV, &" (ampersand precedes AEJ), fourth row "ARH = BFFS ARH = BFFS." Below text rows, two identical sets of five pink asterisks each. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a solid pink background with white characters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background pixel art text
  • SEB RMU MRW BDW AEJ JLV ARH BFFS
  • ampersand before AEJ
  • two sets five pink asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of repeated letter groups
  • quarantined composition: centered text rows

Visible Text

  • SEB, RMU, SEB, RMU,
  • MRW, BDW, MRW, BDW,
  • AEJ, JLV, &AEJ, JLV, &
  • ARH = BFFS ARH = BFFS

Visually Supported Entities

  • text characters
  • asterisks

Wordwall

  • solid bright pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • four of repeated letter groups
  • & precedes AEJ
  • ARH = BFFS
  • two sets of five pink asterisks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081217130252993800591
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
371 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fbcf489abdf9689728458ae0612c087f2ecdbc922760a23d891acdc339f7839c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
fbcf489abdf96897
SHA-256
fbcf489abdf9689728458ae0612c087f2ecdbc922760a23d891acdc339f7839c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112820

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.893401onnx/unsafe0.112820onnx/nsfw0.081790onnx/nsfl0.031030
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Pixelated text and symbols on a solid pink background with white characters.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,834 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 663

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • asterisks (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical asterisk sets below

Dense Caption

Solid bright pink background. White pixelated text in four rows: first row "SEB, RMU, SEB, RMU," second row "MRW, BDW, MRW, BDW," third row "AEJ, JLV, &AEJ, JLV, &" (ampersand precedes AEJ), fourth row "ARH = BFFS ARH = BFFS." Below text rows, two identical sets of five pink asterisks each. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a solid pink background with white characters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background pixel art text
  • SEB RMU MRW BDW AEJ JLV ARH BFFS
  • ampersand before AEJ
  • two sets five pink asterisks

Objects

  • asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of repeated letter groups
  • quarantined composition: centered text rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text characters
  • asterisks

Visible Text

  • SEB, RMU, SEB, RMU,
  • MRW, BDW, MRW, BDW,
  • AEJ, JLV, &AEJ, JLV, &
  • ARH = BFFS ARH = BFFS

Visually Supported Entities

  • text characters
  • asterisks

Wordwall

  • solid bright pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • four of repeated letter groups
  • & precedes AEJ
  • ARH = BFFS
  • two sets of five pink asterisks
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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
20081217130252993800591
Archive entry
20081217130252993800591.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081217130252993800591.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081217130252993800591.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016