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Blue background with green vertical text 'NICK' on both sides and a white pixelated heart above center.

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Blue background with green vertical text 'NICK' on both sides and a white pixelated heart above center.

Blue background with green vertical text 'NICK' on both sides and a white pixelated heart above center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • vertical text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background. Two vertical green pixelated text columns spelling 'NICK' on left and right sides. White pixelated heart shape centered above text columns. Each 'NICK' column has a small green pixelated heart at the bottom. Text and heart shapes are rendered in blocky, low-resolution pixels. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with green vertical text 'NICK' on both sides and a white pixelated heart above center.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green text NICK heart
  • vertical green text
  • pixelated heart blue background
  • NICK text heart

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text columns on both sides
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: NICK text columns heart
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical green text columns

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green vertical text
  • NICK
  • white pixelated heart
  • small green pixelated heart
  • blocky pixels
  • vertical text
  • centered heart
  • low-resolution
  • text on both sides

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201012061951021964840125
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
760 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77e64dbea0b7ac018374217ab034cd67627d140a25f377ddb7b2f88fa12d1664.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
77e64dbea0b7ac01
SHA-256
77e64dbea0b7ac018374217ab034cd67627d140a25f377ddb7b2f88fa12d1664
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
1051
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094421

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.907806onnx/unsafe0.094421onnx/nsfw0.055391onnx/nsfl0.039030
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with green vertical text 'NICK' on both sides and a white pixelated heart above center.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,808 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 639

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart
  • vertical text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background. Two vertical green pixelated text columns spelling 'NICK' on left and right sides. White pixelated heart shape centered above text columns. Each 'NICK' column has a small green pixelated heart at the bottom. Text and heart shapes are rendered in blocky, low-resolution pixels. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with green vertical text 'NICK' on both sides and a white pixelated heart above center.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green text NICK heart
  • vertical green text
  • pixelated heart blue background
  • NICK text heart

Objects

  • heart
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text columns on both sides
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: NICK text columns heart
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical green text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • NICK

Wordwall

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  • green vertical text
  • NICK
  • white pixelated heart
  • small green pixelated heart
  • blocky pixels
  • vertical text
  • centered heart
  • low-resolution
  • text on both sides
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201012061951021964840125
Archive entry
201012061951021964840125.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201012061951021964840125.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201012061951021964840125.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016