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Pink text repeats across a dark green background with scattered white star-like shapes and small dots appearing in different positions.

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Pink text repeats across a dark green background with scattered white star-like shapes and small dots appearing in different positions.

Pink text repeats across a dark green background with scattered white star-like shapes and small dots appearing in different positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Animation Summary

White star shapes replace plus signs in upper sections while small white dots appear and shift in lower sections across observations; text remains static.

Composition

  • three horizontal of repeated text
  • scattered white elements on dark background

Dense Caption

Dark green background features three horizontal rows of pink stylized text reading 'NICHANSMO' repeated three times per row. White plus signs appear above the middle row at left, center, and right positions. Small white stars replace some plus signs between frames; additional scattered white dots emerge in lower sections across observations. Text remains static while star/dot placements shift slightly.

Description

  • Pink text repeats across a dark green background with scattered white star-like shapes and small dots appearing in different 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080927123853679080208
  • 200809271239151522310588
  • 200809271239301494935701

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink 'NICHANSMO' text
  • dark green background with stars
  • white dot animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of repeated text

Visible Text

  • NICHANSMO

Wordwall

  • pink text 'NICHANSMO'
  • dark green background
  • white plus signs
  • white star shapes
  • small white dots
  • three horizontal of text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080927123853679080208
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809271239301494935701
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809271239151522310588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42d5c73297c6344b3ba12c07ef7ea336dd026b7dc97a2b0349cd0b0eed8a1354.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
42d5c73297c6344b
SHA-256
42d5c73297c6344b3ba12c07ef7ea336dd026b7dc97a2b0349cd0b0eed8a1354
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000054

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000544

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.197554

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pink text repeats across a dark green background with scattered white star-like shapes and small dots appearing in different positions.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,238 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,198, response 650

Review tags

  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized text (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

White star shapes replace plus signs in upper sections while small white dots appear and shift in lower sections across observations; text remains static.

Colors

  • dark green
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • three horizontal of repeated text
  • scattered white elements on dark background

Dense Caption

Dark green background features three horizontal rows of pink stylized text reading 'NICHANSMO' repeated three times per row. White plus signs appear above the middle row at left, center, and right positions. Small white stars replace some plus signs between frames; additional scattered white dots emerge in lower sections across observations. Text remains static while star/dot placements shift slightly.

Description

  • Pink text repeats across a dark green background with scattered white star-like shapes and small dots appearing in different 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080927123853679080208
  • 200809271239151522310588
  • 200809271239301494935701

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink 'NICHANSMO' text
  • dark green background with stars
  • white dot animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of repeated text

Style

  • pixelated
  • stylized text

Visible Text

  • NICHANSMO

Wordwall

  • pink text 'NICHANSMO'
  • dark green background
  • white plus signs
  • white star shapes
  • small white dots
  • three horizontal of text
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Full source records (3)

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
20080927123853679080208
Archive entry
20080927123853679080208.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080927123853679080208.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080927123853679080208.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200809271239301494935701
Archive entry
200809271239301494935701.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809271239301494935701.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809271239301494935701.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200809271239151522310588
Archive entry
200809271239151522310588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809271239151522310588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809271239151522310588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016