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Pixelated icon with rounded edges featuring a pink and orange gradient shape with black text reading 'BFF' on a teal background.

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Pixelated icon with rounded edges featuring a pink and orange gradient shape with black text reading 'BFF' on a teal background.

Pixelated icon with rounded edges featuring a pink and orange gradient shape with black text reading 'BFF' on a teal background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Iconator Ima…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • rounded shape
  • gradient fill
  • accent stripe

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with rounded edges on a solid teal background. The icon's main shape has a pink and orange gradient fill with a white outline. Centered within the shape is black text reading 'BFF' in a blocky, pixelated font. The text has a subtle gray shadow effect. The icon's top edge has a teal accent stripe. The overall style is retro digital with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with rounded edges featuring a pink and orange gradient shape with black text reading 'BFF' on a teal background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: internet culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: movies
  • provenance topic-coverage: music
  • provenance topic-coverage: personal identity

Metadata Only Entities

  • iconator
  • images2
  • images3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BFF icon
  • teal background pixelated icon
  • pink orange gradient text icon
  • retro digital BFF icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Iconator Images2 and Images3 Native Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: internet culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: movies
  • provenance topic-coverage: music
  • provenance topic-coverage: personal identity

Visible Text

  • BFF

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • pink and orange gradient
  • black text
  • BFF
  • pixelated
  • rounded edges
  • white outline
  • teal accent stripe
  • gray shadow effect
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Iconator Images2 and Images3 Native Icons

Source title
ICONATOR-icons-628a44d975
Era
2004 Iconator Community Gallery
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 18:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5c537933f5e6f0440b0713bed4053d9d20c64e513378d6c4fc445fd3abe9ed0a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 18:50 UTC
Archive ID
5c537933f5e6f044
SHA-256
5c537933f5e6f0440b0713bed4053d9d20c64e513378d6c4fc445fd3abe9ed0a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.061498

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with rounded edges featuring a pink and orange gradient shape with black text reading 'BFF' on a teal background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:28 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,428 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,055, response 702

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • pink
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text
  • rounded shape
  • gradient fill
  • accent stripe

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with rounded edges on a solid teal background. The icon's main shape has a pink and orange gradient fill with a white outline. Centered within the shape is black text reading 'BFF' in a blocky, pixelated font. The text has a subtle gray shadow effect. The icon's top edge has a teal accent stripe. The overall style is retro digital with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with rounded edges featuring a pink and orange gradient shape with black text reading 'BFF' on a teal background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: internet culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: movies
  • provenance topic-coverage: music
  • provenance topic-coverage: personal identity

Metadata Only Entities

  • iconator
  • images2
  • images3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BFF icon
  • teal background pixelated icon
  • pink orange gradient text icon
  • retro digital BFF icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Iconator Images2 and Images3 Native Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fandom
  • provenance topic-coverage: internet culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: movies
  • provenance topic-coverage: music
  • provenance topic-coverage: personal identity

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • BFF

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • pink and orange gradient
  • black text
  • BFF
  • pixelated
  • rounded edges
  • white outline
  • teal accent stripe
  • gray shadow effect
  • retro digital
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Iconator Images2 and Images3 Native Icons (wayback-iconator-images2-images3-native-icons)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2004 Iconator Community Gallery
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration across missing Iconator image hosts
Alt
ICONATOR-icons-628a44d975
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 18:50 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
user-submitted Iconator identity graphics from early sharded asset hosts

Original: http://images3.iconator.com/ICONATOR-icons-628a44d975.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20040106231220id_/http://images3.iconator.com:80/ICONATOR-icons-628a44d975.gif