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Red background with white rectangular shapes and black text reading HICK in multiple positions.

Red background with white rectangular shapes and black text reading HICK in multiple positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in -like pattern
  • white rectangles layered beneath some text elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a red background with six instances of the word "HICK" in bold, pixelated black font. The text appears in different locations: top-left, top-center (on a white rectangle), top-right, middle-left, center, and middle-right. White rectangular shapes are positioned beneath some of the text elements, creating layered visual effects.

Description

  • Red background with white rectangular shapes and black text reading HICK in multiple positions.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712181836072108704368

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white rectangles black text HICK
  • repeated HICK text
  • pixelated HICK on red with white shapes
  • blocky text arrangement six times

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in grid-like pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated HICK text grid layout

Visible Text

  • HICK

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white rectangles
  • black pixelated text
  • HICK repeated six times

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712181836072108704368
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
482 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2ac713072d3a72abbeba996004807a3cf375fded67d27a92561b4f7fb1798f54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
2ac713072d3a72ab
SHA-256
2ac713072d3a72abbeba996004807a3cf375fded67d27a92561b4f7fb1798f54
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113604

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white rectangular shapes and black text reading HICK in multiple positions.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:01 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,008 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text arranged in -like pattern
  • white rectangles layered beneath some text elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a red background with six instances of the word "HICK" in bold, pixelated black font. The text appears in different locations: top-left, top-center (on a white rectangle), top-right, middle-left, center, and middle-right. White rectangular shapes are positioned beneath some of the text elements, creating layered visual effects.

Description

  • Red background with white rectangular shapes and black text reading HICK in multiple positions.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712181836072108704368

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white rectangles black text HICK
  • repeated HICK text
  • pixelated HICK on red with white shapes
  • blocky text arrangement six times

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in grid-like pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated HICK text grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repetitive text layout

Visible Text

  • HICK

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white rectangles
  • black pixelated text
  • HICK repeated six times
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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
200712181836072108704368
Archive entry
200712181836072108704368.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712181836072108704368.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712181836072108704368.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016