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Black background with four instances of the text 'nicolee' in white pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of white dots forming a curved pattern.

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Black background with four instances of the text 'nicolee' in white pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of white dots forming a curved pattern.

Black background with four instances of the text 'nicolee' in white pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of white dots forming a curved pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • dots shift position
  • dots increase in number per cluster
  • dots form curved patterns

Animation Summary

Four white dot clusters below 'nicolee' text instances shift position and increase in number, forming curved patterns from 5 to 8 dots across observations.

Composition

  • text-dot pairs
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with four white pixelated 'nicolee' text instances arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text instance has a small cluster of white dots below it: top-left cluster has 5 dots forming a curved line, top-right cluster has 6 dots forming a curved line, bottom-left cluster has 7 dots forming a curved line, bottom-right cluster has 8 dots forming a curved line. Dots are positioned below and to the right of each text instance. All text is lowercase with no punctuation.

Description

Black background with four instances of the text 'nicolee' in white pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of white dots forming a curved pattern.

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

  • four 'nicolee' text instances
  • white dot clusters
  • curved dot patterns
  • 5-8 dots
  • pixel art
  • black background
  • white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • nicolee

Wordwall

  • four 'nicolee' text instances
  • white pixelated font
  • black background
  • white dot clusters
  • curved dot patterns
  • 5 dots top-left
  • 6 dots top-right
  • 7 dots bottom-left
  • 8 dots bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812211025241804194257
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
277 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d5f28641897367397e73ba47e5e457837b888f6f6adec6ef671d031b2c09609.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
4d5f286418973673
SHA-256
4d5f28641897367397e73ba47e5e457837b888f6f6adec6ef671d031b2c09609
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078738

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923794onnx/unsafe0.078738onnx/nsfl0.039934onnx/nsfw0.038804
Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with four instances of the text 'nicolee' in white pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of white dots forming a curved pattern.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,500 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 763

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots form curved patterns (other, 0.80)
  • dots increase in number per cluster (other, 0.80)
  • dots shift position (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • dots shift position
  • dots increase in number per cluster
  • dots form curved patterns

Animation Summary

Four white dot clusters below 'nicolee' text instances shift position and increase in number, forming curved patterns from 5 to 8 dots across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text-dot pairs
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with four white pixelated 'nicolee' text instances arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text instance has a small cluster of white dots below it: top-left cluster has 5 dots forming a curved line, top-right cluster has 6 dots forming a curved line, bottom-left cluster has 7 dots forming a curved line, bottom-right cluster has 8 dots forming a curved line. Dots are positioned below and to the right of each text instance. All text is lowercase with no punctuation.

Description

Black background with four instances of the text 'nicolee' in white pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of white dots forming a curved pattern.

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

  • four 'nicolee' text instances
  • white dot clusters
  • curved dot patterns
  • 5-8 dots
  • pixel art
  • black background
  • white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • nicolee

Wordwall

  • four 'nicolee' text instances
  • white pixelated font
  • black background
  • white dot clusters
  • curved dot patterns
  • 5 dots top-left
  • 6 dots top-right
  • 7 dots bottom-left
  • 8 dots bottom-right
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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
200812211025241804194257
Archive entry
200812211025241804194257.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812211025241804194257.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812211025241804194257.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016