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Blue background with white pixelated text reading "My BFFL's are the best" arranged in vertical lines.

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Blue background with white pixelated text reading "My BFFL's are the best" arranged in vertical lines.

Blue background with white pixelated text reading "My BFFL's are the best" arranged in vertical lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered text
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: "My" at top, followed by "BFFL's", then "are", "the", and "best". Text is centered horizontally. Background has gradient from dark blue at edges to lighter blue at center. Text appears identical across all four displayed panels. No additional visual elements or motion present.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text reading "My BFFL's are the best" arranged in vertical lines.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text
  • BFFL's are the best
  • pixelated text vertical layout
  • centered text blue gradient
  • text My BFFL's are the best
  • static text icon
  • blue gradient background
  • white pixelated font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels

Visible Text

  • My
  • BFFL's
  • are
  • the
  • best

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • vertical text layout
  • centered text
  • gradient background
  • text: My BFFL's are the best
  • no additional elements
  • identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810171224022051286619
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
fff58df0760b0762
SHA-256
fff58df0760b07620b95f0d4fd8272007573d08d0d7193554829a5c3e1080e05
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086159

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with white pixelated text reading "My BFFL's are the best" arranged in vertical lines.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,086 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 665

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered text
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: "My" at top, followed by "BFFL's", then "are", "the", and "best". Text is centered horizontally. Background has gradient from dark blue at edges to lighter blue at center. Text appears identical across all four displayed panels. No additional visual elements or motion present.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text reading "My BFFL's are the best" arranged in vertical lines.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text
  • BFFL's are the best
  • pixelated text vertical layout
  • centered text blue gradient
  • text My BFFL's are the best
  • static text icon
  • blue gradient background
  • white pixelated font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • My
  • BFFL's
  • are
  • the
  • best

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • vertical text layout
  • centered text
  • gradient background
  • text: My BFFL's are the best
  • no additional elements
  • identical
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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
200810171224022051286619
Archive entry
200810171224022051286619.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810171224022051286619.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810171224022051286619.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016