Two side-by-side animated frames of a pixel art buddy icon with rainbow-colored text and a star symbol on black background.

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Two side-by-side animated frames of a pixel art buddy icon with rainbow-colored text and a star symbol on black background.

Two side-by-side animated frames of a pixel art buddy icon with rainbow-colored text and a star symbol on black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from MyOldIcons / Ori…

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About this icon

Animation

  • frame 0: 'boyfriends' text; frame 1: star symbol replaces 'boyfriends'

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation where the final word 'boyfriends' changes to a white star symbol between frames while all other elements remain identical.

Composition

  • centered text arrangement
  • two-frame contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image shows two adjacent 50x50 pixel animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Both frames feature the same text layout: 'Best' in rainbow gradient (red-orange-yellow-green), 'friends' in blue, 'ARE BETTER THAN' in orange, and 'boyfriends' in green. The left frame displays all text without additional symbols while the right frame replaces 'boyfriends' with a white star symbol. Text uses blocky pixelated font typical of early internet graphics. Background is solid black. Animation consists of a single frame change where the final word transitions from 'boyfriends' to a star symbol. Pixelation creates visible dithering effects on text edges, especially in blue and green sections. The icon maintains consistent color scheme across both frames with no other visual changes besides the star substitution.

Description

  • Two side-by-side animated frames of a pixel art buddy icon with rainbow-colored text and a star symbol on black background.

Fandoms

  • LGBTQ+ affirming content (via text)

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"myoldicons reference","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"source hints match historical context of AOL icons"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source: myoldicons-originalicons
  • title: Save my heart from this disaster
  • myoldicons id 166248
  • url: 1121382190_1069173313

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: quotes (text-based content)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends are better than boyfriends pixel art
  • rainbow text buddy icon star replacement
  • aol instant messenger rainbow text animation

Objects

  • star symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact-sheet layout 2x1
  • sampledFrameCount 2
  • sourceFrameCount 2
  • reviewImagePixels 512x256

Safety Notes

  • text contains non-explicit LGBTQ+ affirming message about friendship vs romantic relationships

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'myoldicons', 'dollz', and 'quotes' categories; title mentions 'Save my heart from this disaster' but no visible evidence supports it

Subjects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • Best
  • friends
  • ARE BETTER THAN
  • boyfriends

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based buddy icon
  • LGBTQ+ affirming content (via 'best friends' vs 'boyfriends')

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient text
  • blue friends text
  • orange ARE BETTER THAN text
  • green boyfriends text
  • white star symbol
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • dithered edges
  • text layout
  • frame-to-frame animation
  • star replaces boyfriends
  • blocky pixel art
  • 50x50 icon size
  • two frame sequence
  • solid black backdrop
  • rainbow 'Best' lettering
  • blue 'friends' script
  • orange uppercase text
  • green lowercase text
  • pixelated 'boyfriends' spelling

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / dollz / quotes
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:57 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/5e/5e3f503cdbc17fdbd4a50d2234de411286a7dbb661a40e20c9a39b869a4219b2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Archive ID
5e3f503cdbc17fdb
SHA-256
5e3f503cdbc17fdbd4a50d2234de411286a7dbb661a40e20c9a39b869a4219b2
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097426

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915205onnx/unsafe0.097426onnx/nsfw0.055227onnx/nsfl0.042198
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 04:39 UTC
Run
30
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two side-by-side animated frames of a pixel art buddy icon with rainbow-colored text and a star symbol on black background.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 04:39 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
7,081 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,029, response 1,163

Review tags

  • two frame animation (animation, 0.95)
  • black background (color, 0.95)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.95)
  • rainbow gradient text (subject, 0.95)
  • white star symbol (object, 0.90)
  • blue friends text (subject, 0.90)
  • text layout (composition, 0.85)
  • green lowercase text (subject, 0.85)
  • orange uppercase text (subject, 0.85)
  • dithered edges (rendering, 0.80)

Actions

  • frame transition

Animation

  • frame 0: 'boyfriends' text; frame 1: star symbol replaces 'boyfriends'

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation where the final word 'boyfriends' changes to a white star symbol between frames while all other elements remain identical.

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text arrangement
  • two-frame contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image shows two adjacent 50x50 pixel animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Both frames feature the same text layout: 'Best' in rainbow gradient (red-orange-yellow-green), 'friends' in blue, 'ARE BETTER THAN' in orange, and 'boyfriends' in green. The left frame displays all text without additional symbols while the right frame replaces 'boyfriends' with a white star symbol. Text uses blocky pixelated font typical of early internet graphics. Background is solid black. Animation consists of a single frame change where the final word transitions from 'boyfriends' to a star symbol. Pixelation creates visible dithering effects on text edges, especially in blue and green sections. The icon maintains consistent color scheme across both frames with no other visual changes besides the star substitution.

Description

  • Two side-by-side animated frames of a pixel art buddy icon with rainbow-colored text and a star symbol on black background.

Fandoms

  • LGBTQ+ affirming content (via text)

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"myoldicons reference","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"source hints match historical context of AOL icons"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source: myoldicons-originalicons
  • title: Save my heart from this disaster
  • myoldicons id 166248
  • url: 1121382190_1069173313

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: quotes (text-based content)

Mood

  • playful
  • affirming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends are better than boyfriends pixel art
  • rainbow text buddy icon star replacement
  • aol instant messenger rainbow text animation

Objects

  • star symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact-sheet layout 2x1
  • sampledFrameCount 2
  • sourceFrameCount 2
  • reviewImagePixels 512x256

Safety Notes

  • text contains non-explicit LGBTQ+ affirming message about friendship vs romantic relationships

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'myoldicons', 'dollz', and 'quotes' categories; title mentions 'Save my heart from this disaster' but no visible evidence supports it

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • dithered edges
  • rainbow gradient text

Subjects

  • text layout
  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • Best
  • friends
  • ARE BETTER THAN
  • boyfriends

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based buddy icon
  • LGBTQ+ affirming content (via 'best friends' vs 'boyfriends')

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient text
  • blue friends text
  • orange ARE BETTER THAN text
  • green boyfriends text
  • white star symbol
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • dithered edges
  • text layout
  • frame-to-frame animation
  • star replaces boyfriends
  • blocky pixel art
  • 50x50 icon size
  • two frame sequence
  • solid black backdrop
  • rainbow 'Best' lettering
  • blue 'friends' script
  • orange uppercase text
  • green lowercase text
  • pixelated 'boyfriends' spelling
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / dollz / quotes
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1124048083_1113839966.gif | tenniscutie0419 Save my heart from this disaster | animated | myoldicons id 166248
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:57 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata