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A static image with a fiery orange-red background and black text reading 'nick ellis' in a pixelated font.

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A static image with a fiery orange-red background and black text reading 'nick ellis' in a pixelated font.

A static image with a fiery orange-red background and black text reading 'nick ellis' in a pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered-left
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a fiery orange-red background featuring blurred, flame-like patterns. Overlaid in the center-left area is black text reading 'nick ellis' in a pixelated, blocky font. The text is arranged in two lines with 'nick' on the top line and 'ellis' directly below it. The right portion of the image contains a solid light gray rectangular area. The background has no distinct shapes or objects beyond the flame-like patterns. The text is the only clear textual element present.

Description

  • A static image with a fiery orange-red background and black text reading 'nick ellis' in a 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nick ellis text
  • fiery background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text

Visible Text

  • nick ellis

Wordwall

  • fiery orange-red background
  • black pixelated text
  • nick ellis text
  • two-line text layout
  • solid light gray rectangle
  • flame-like patterns
  • no additional objects
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071201175936692463097
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/8432b690c7d9b2b2b2e036684c3cf52d21016743ab2a6a44aee6bf0185f7267d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
8432b690c7d9b2b2
SHA-256
8432b690c7d9b2b2b2e036684c3cf52d21016743ab2a6a44aee6bf0185f7267d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090091

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a fiery orange-red background and black text reading 'nick ellis' in a pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,002 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 645

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered-left
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a fiery orange-red background featuring blurred, flame-like patterns. Overlaid in the center-left area is black text reading 'nick ellis' in a pixelated, blocky font. The text is arranged in two lines with 'nick' on the top line and 'ellis' directly below it. The right portion of the image contains a solid light gray rectangular area. The background has no distinct shapes or objects beyond the flame-like patterns. The text is the only clear textual element present.

Description

  • A static image with a fiery orange-red background and black text reading 'nick ellis' in a 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nick ellis text
  • fiery background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • nick ellis

Wordwall

  • fiery orange-red background
  • black pixelated text
  • nick ellis text
  • two-line text layout
  • solid light gray rectangle
  • flame-like patterns
  • no additional objects
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:57 UTC
Run
53
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)
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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
20071201175936692463097
Archive entry
20071201175936692463097.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#20071201175936692463097.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071201175936692463097.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016