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Pixelated image with four quadrants showing 'Nicki' text and star symbols on black and green backgrounds.

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Pixelated image with four quadrants showing 'Nicki' text and star symbols on black and green backgrounds.

Pixelated image with four quadrants showing 'Nicki' text and star symbols on black and green backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants divided by a vertical and horizontal line. Top-left quadrant has black background with purple 'Nicki' text and a green star. Top-right quadrant has green background with purple 'Nicki' text. Bottom-left quadrant has green background with purple 'Nicki' text and a black star. Bottom-right quadrant has green background with purple 'Nicki' text. All text is pixelated, and the stars are simple five-pointed shapes. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated image with four quadrants showing 'Nicki' text and star symbols on black and green backgrounds.

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

  • Nicki text green star
  • Nicki text black star
  • four quadrants Nicki
  • pixelated Nicki green background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • Nicki

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black background
  • green background
  • purple text
  • pixelated text
  • green star
  • black star
  • five-pointed stars
  • text 'Nicki'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905291456411140559409
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f8b5ac0f544902beec3fc66a7243f12462bd463d5f6ffb3cd8a0266452ae77c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
4f8b5ac0f544902b
SHA-256
4f8b5ac0f544902beec3fc66a7243f12462bd463d5f6ffb3cd8a0266452ae77c
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001212

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
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1034
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with four quadrants showing 'Nicki' text and star symbols on black and green backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,071 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 649

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • purple

Composition

  • quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants divided by a vertical and horizontal line. Top-left quadrant has black background with purple 'Nicki' text and a green star. Top-right quadrant has green background with purple 'Nicki' text. Bottom-left quadrant has green background with purple 'Nicki' text and a black star. Bottom-right quadrant has green background with purple 'Nicki' text. All text is pixelated, and the stars are simple five-pointed shapes. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated image with four quadrants showing 'Nicki' text and star symbols on black and green backgrounds.

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

  • Nicki text green star
  • Nicki text black star
  • four quadrants Nicki
  • pixelated Nicki green background

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Nicki

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black background
  • green background
  • purple text
  • pixelated text
  • green star
  • black star
  • five-pointed stars
  • text 'Nicki'
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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
200905291456411140559409
Archive entry
200905291456411140559409.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905291456411140559409.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905291456411140559409.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016