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Static image with bright pink background, multiple green plus signs scattered across the canvas, and four instances of purple text reading NICOLE.

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Static image with bright pink background, multiple green plus signs scattered across the canvas, and four instances of purple text reading NICOLE.

Static image with bright pink background, multiple green plus signs scattered across the canvas, and four instances of purple text reading NICOLE. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four corners with NICOLE
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Bright magenta-pink solid background. Four distinct clusters of green plus-sign symbols: top-left (one), top-right (two), middle-center (three), bottom-left (four). Four separate instances of uppercase sans-serif text 'NICOLE' in light purple, positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. All elements are static with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

Static image with bright pink background, multiple green plus signs scattered across the canvas, and four instances of purple text reading NICOLE.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta pink green plus signs NICOLE
  • four NICOLE instances magenta background
  • green plus signs purple text magenta
  • NICOLE four corners magenta

Visible Text

  • NICOLE

Visually Supported Entities

  • NICOLE

Wordwall

  • magenta-pink background
  • green plus signs
  • light purple text
  • four NICOLE instances
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080328132228842721579
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
981 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/4013bb6fac6a7c7231df2921d9a9269612ed2012efad236226fa7b94bacdd724.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
4013bb6fac6a7c72
SHA-256
4013bb6fac6a7c7231df2921d9a9269612ed2012efad236226fa7b94bacdd724
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 00:04 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000048

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 14:16 UTC
Run
1262
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
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Static image with bright pink background, multiple green plus signs scattered across the canvas, and four instances of purple text reading NICOLE.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:47 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,268 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 571

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • magenta pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • simple geometric shapes (style, 0.80)
  • green plus signs (subject, 0.80)
  • text nicole (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta-pink
  • light purple
  • green

Composition

  • four corners with NICOLE
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Bright magenta-pink solid background. Four distinct clusters of green plus-sign symbols: top-left (one), top-right (two), middle-center (three), bottom-left (four). Four separate instances of uppercase sans-serif text 'NICOLE' in light purple, positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. All elements are static with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

Static image with bright pink background, multiple green plus signs scattered across the canvas, and four instances of purple text reading NICOLE.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • vibrant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta pink green plus signs NICOLE
  • four NICOLE instances magenta background
  • green plus signs purple text magenta
  • NICOLE four corners magenta

Objects

  • plus signs

Style

  • pixelated text
  • simple geometric shapes

Subjects

  • text 'NICOLE'
  • green plus signs

Visible Text

  • NICOLE

Visually Supported Entities

  • NICOLE

Wordwall

  • magenta-pink background
  • green plus signs
  • light purple text
  • four NICOLE instances
  • static image
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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
20080328132228842721579
Archive entry
20080328132228842721579.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080328132228842721579.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080328132228842721579.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016