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A split-screen image shows a person in a red shirt with a black vertical bar over the face, another person with a white heart symbol over the face, and a third person with the text "NICK" below.

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A split-screen image shows a person in a red shirt with a black vertical bar over the face, another person with a white heart symbol over the face, and a third person with the text "NICK" below.

A split-screen image shows a person in a red shirt with a black vertical bar over the face, another person with a white heart symbol over the face, and a third person with the tex…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • three
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a composite of three distinct sections. Top-left section: a person with short dark hair wearing a red shirt, standing outdoors near water, with a solid black vertical bar covering the face. Top-right section: a person with short dark hair wearing a light blue shirt, with a white heart-shaped symbol covering the face. Bottom section: a person with curly dark hair wearing a dark shirt, with the text "NICK" in white capital letters below the face. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital media. The background in the top-left section shows a blurred body of water. The top-right section has a light-colored background. The bottom section has a dark background. The overall composition is divided into three separate panels.

Description

A split-screen image shows a person in a red shirt with a black vertical bar over the face, another person with a white heart symbol over the face, and a third person with the text "NICK" below.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red shirt black bar
  • white heart symbol
  • NICK text
  • split-screen pixelated
  • three composite
  • curly hair NICK
  • heart symbol red shirt
  • black bar white heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three panels
  • quarantined retrieval: three panel composite

Visible Text

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • red shirt
  • black vertical bar
  • white heart symbol
  • curly dark hair
  • text NICK
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • outdoor water background
  • light blue shirt
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080823015902922671080
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b4c690887663011bc4d5700eb5075dc26f4a4ab183278964e6e041441347c36.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
4b4c690887663011
SHA-256
4b4c690887663011bc4d5700eb5075dc26f4a4ab183278964e6e041441347c36
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 14:12 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001191

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen image shows a person in a red shirt with a black vertical bar over the face, another person with a white heart symbol over the face, and a third person with the text "NICK" below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,620 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 781

Review tags

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • black vertical bar (object, 0.80)
  • text nick (object, 0.80)
  • white heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • composite (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • split-screen
  • three
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a composite of three distinct sections. Top-left section: a person with short dark hair wearing a red shirt, standing outdoors near water, with a solid black vertical bar covering the face. Top-right section: a person with short dark hair wearing a light blue shirt, with a white heart-shaped symbol covering the face. Bottom section: a person with curly dark hair wearing a dark shirt, with the text "NICK" in white capital letters below the face. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital media. The background in the top-left section shows a blurred body of water. The top-right section has a light-colored background. The bottom section has a dark background. The overall composition is divided into three separate panels.

Description

A split-screen image shows a person in a red shirt with a black vertical bar over the face, another person with a white heart symbol over the face, and a third person with the text "NICK" below.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red shirt black bar
  • white heart symbol
  • NICK text
  • split-screen pixelated
  • three composite
  • curly hair NICK
  • heart symbol red shirt
  • black bar white heart

Objects

  • black vertical bar
  • white heart symbol
  • text NICK

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three panels
  • quarantined retrieval: three panel composite

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • composite

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • red shirt
  • black vertical bar
  • white heart symbol
  • curly dark hair
  • text NICK
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • outdoor water background
  • light blue shirt
  • dark background
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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
20080823015902922671080
Archive entry
20080823015902922671080.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080823015902922671080.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080823015902922671080.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016