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Black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, with pink text reading "Nicole" at the bottom right.

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Black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, with pink text reading "Nicole" at the bottom right.

Black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, with pink text reading "Nicole" at the bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom right

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, wearing a dark top. The background is a light, textured pattern. Pink text reading "Nicole" appears at the bottom right corner. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance typical of early digital photography.

Description

  • Black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, with pink text reading "Nicole" at the bottom right.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Nicole

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Nicole buddy icon
  • smiling person black-and-white
  • pink text Nicole
  • low-resolution portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Nicole

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nicole

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • shoulder-length hair
  • smiling
  • dark top
  • text: Nicole
  • pink text
  • low-resolution
  • grainy
  • textured background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007081210452494133153
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74db583102402546f3f73f279f0f218791b08ac94136f0c2987b69395c9c86eb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
74db583102402546
SHA-256
74db583102402546f3f73f279f0f218791b08ac94136f0c2987b69395c9c86eb
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 00:43 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, with pink text reading "Nicole" at the bottom right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,225 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 693

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom right

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, wearing a dark top. The background is a light, textured pattern. Pink text reading "Nicole" appears at the bottom right corner. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance typical of early digital photography.

Description

  • Black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, smiling, with pink text reading "Nicole" at the bottom right.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly

Named Entities

  • Nicole

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Nicole buddy icon
  • smiling person black-and-white
  • pink text Nicole
  • low-resolution portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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Subjects

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Visible Text

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Wordwall

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:20 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
2007081210452494133153
Archive entry
2007081210452494133153.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#2007081210452494133153.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007081210452494133153.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016