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Four white heart shapes on a red background, each containing the text 'NICK' in black pixelated font.

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Four white heart shapes on a red background, each containing the text 'NICK' in black pixelated font.

Four white heart shapes on a red background, each containing the text 'NICK' in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • centered text within hearts

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical white hearts arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid red background. Each heart contains the word 'NICK' written in bold, black, pixelated capital letters centered within the heart shape. The hearts have slightly rounded edges with visible pixelation typical of low-resolution digital graphics from early internet era. All four hearts display identical content without any variation or animation.

Description

  • Four white heart shapes on a red background, each containing the text 'NICK' in black pixelated font.

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

  • white hearts red background NICK
  • pixelated text heart shapes
  • NICK icons
  • red white black digital graphic

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid NICK icons

Visible Text

  • NICK

Visually Supported Entities

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • white hearts
  • red background
  • NICK text
  • pixelated font
  • solid color background
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090614144918526534233
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/84052afc8130938033240995b4ebbdd5f02e020cff878b40d243c9e67c77493b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
84052afc81309380
SHA-256
84052afc8130938033240995b4ebbdd5f02e020cff878b40d243c9e67c77493b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 12:17 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000113

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
1113
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073669

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929626onnx/unsafe0.073669onnx/nsfw0.037115onnx/nsfl0.036554
Enrichment records (1)
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Four white heart shapes on a red background, each containing the text 'NICK' in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,278 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 570

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • centered text within hearts

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical white hearts arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid red background. Each heart contains the word 'NICK' written in bold, black, pixelated capital letters centered within the heart shape. The hearts have slightly rounded edges with visible pixelation typical of low-resolution digital graphics from early internet era. All four hearts display identical content without any variation or animation.

Description

  • Four white heart shapes on a red background, each containing the text 'NICK' in black pixelated font.

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

  • white hearts red background NICK
  • pixelated text heart shapes
  • NICK icons
  • red white black digital graphic

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid NICK icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphic

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • NICK

Visually Supported Entities

  • NICK

Wordwall

  • white hearts
  • red background
  • NICK text
  • pixelated font
  • solid color background
  • centered text
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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
20090614144918526534233
Archive entry
20090614144918526534233.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090614144918526534233.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090614144918526534233.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016