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Blue background with green text 'NICK' and cyan square-based pixel art icons scattered across the image.

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Blue background with green text 'NICK' and cyan square-based pixel art icons scattered across the image.

Blue background with green text 'NICK' and cyan square-based pixel art icons scattered across the image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement of text
  • scattered icon placement

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Four instances of green, blocky, uppercase text reading 'NICK', each positioned in a quadrant-like arrangement (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). Six cyan pixel-art icons composed of squares and dots: some feature stacked squares with small square or dot accents above/below; others show similar shapes rotated. All icons share the same cyan color palette. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with green text 'NICK' and cyan square-based pixel art icons scattered across the image.

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

  • blue background cyan icons green text
  • NICK pixel art blue cyan
  • cyan square icons NICK text
  • blocky text six icon designs

Visible Text

  • NICK

Visually Supported Entities

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green text 'NICK'
  • cyan square-based icons
  • four instances of 'NICK' text
  • six distinct icon designs
  • blocky uppercase letters
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802031415401635830504
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
724 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/6939bae9be07f6890738afec26553a6a1cff7f59c551811e4660ad04de0e6b32.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
6939bae9be07f689
SHA-256
6939bae9be07f6890738afec26553a6a1cff7f59c551811e4660ad04de0e6b32
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090805

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with green text 'NICK' and cyan square-based pixel art icons scattered across the image.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,326 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 595

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • squares (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • cyan square icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text nick (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • cyan

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement of text
  • scattered icon placement

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Four instances of green, blocky, uppercase text reading 'NICK', each positioned in a quadrant-like arrangement (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). Six cyan pixel-art icons composed of squares and dots: some feature stacked squares with small square or dot accents above/below; others show similar shapes rotated. All icons share the same cyan color palette. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with green text 'NICK' and cyan square-based pixel art icons scattered across the image.

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

  • blue background cyan icons green text
  • NICK pixel art blue cyan
  • cyan square icons NICK text
  • blocky text six icon designs

Objects

  • squares
  • dots

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • repetitive layout

Subjects

  • text 'NICK'
  • cyan square icons

Visible Text

  • NICK

Visually Supported Entities

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green text 'NICK'
  • cyan square-based icons
  • four instances of 'NICK' text
  • six distinct icon designs
  • blocky uppercase letters
  • pixel art style
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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
200802031415401635830504
Archive entry
200802031415401635830504.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802031415401635830504.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802031415401635830504.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016