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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations.

Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side configurations
  • text at top
  • equals sign in middle
  • text below equals sign
  • asterisks at bottom

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations. Each configuration shows 'Kgt + T' in dark blue pixelated text at the top, a dark blue equals sign in the middle, 'BFF'S' in dark blue pixelated text below the equals sign, and five purple asterisks at the bottom. The left configuration has the first asterisk as a solid purple star, the second as a purple star with a white center, the third as a solid purple star, the fourth as a purple star with a white center, and the fifth as a solid purple star. The right configuration has the first asterisk as a solid purple star, the second as a purple star with a white center, the third as a solid purple star, the fourth as a purple star with a white center, and the fifth as a solid purple star. Both configurations are identical.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations.

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

  • Kgt + T BFF'S
  • bright pink background
  • purple asterisks
  • two identical configurations

Visible Text

  • Kgt + T
  • BFF'S

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • purple asterisks
  • two identical side-by-side configurations
  • Kgt + T
  • BFF'S
  • equals sign
  • five asterisks
  • solid purple star
  • purple star with white center

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806260711011760739168
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
905 bytes
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 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
fdfe67d83e4de910
SHA-256
fdfe67d83e4de91009997ba26bb45f7d1e55522cb969b3adf97cc9d21659132a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112109

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,679 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 742

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • dark blue
  • purple

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side configurations
  • text at top
  • equals sign in middle
  • text below equals sign
  • asterisks at bottom

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations. Each configuration shows 'Kgt + T' in dark blue pixelated text at the top, a dark blue equals sign in the middle, 'BFF'S' in dark blue pixelated text below the equals sign, and five purple asterisks at the bottom. The left configuration has the first asterisk as a solid purple star, the second as a purple star with a white center, the third as a solid purple star, the fourth as a purple star with a white center, and the fifth as a solid purple star. The right configuration has the first asterisk as a solid purple star, the second as a purple star with a white center, the third as a solid purple star, the fourth as a purple star with a white center, and the fifth as a solid purple star. Both configurations are identical.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with two identical side-by-side configurations.

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

  • Kgt + T BFF'S
  • bright pink background
  • purple asterisks
  • two identical configurations

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • Kgt + T
  • BFF'S

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • purple asterisks
  • two identical side-by-side configurations
  • Kgt + T
  • BFF'S
  • equals sign
  • five asterisks
  • solid purple star
  • purple star with white center
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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
200806260711011760739168
Archive entry
200806260711011760739168.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806260711011760739168.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806260711011760739168.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016