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A person with curly hair sings into a microphone, wearing a light gray shirt and blue strap, with text 'nick' below.

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A person with curly hair sings into a microphone, wearing a light gray shirt and blue strap, with text 'nick' below.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair holding a black microphone close to their mouth. They wear a light gray long-sleeve shirt over a white undershirt and have a blue strap across their chest. The background is dark. Below the figure, the word 'nick' appears in white lowercase letters on a black rectangular bar. The image has pixelated rendering with visible dithering.

Description

  • A person with curly hair sings into a microphone, wearing a light gray shirt and blue strap, with text 'nick' below.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person singing microphone
  • gray shirt blue strap
  • text nick pixelated

Visible Text

  • nick

Visually Supported Entities

  • nick

Wordwall

  • person
  • curly hair
  • microphone
  • light gray shirt
  • blue strap
  • white undershirt
  • dark background
  • text 'nick'
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080110160554828297181
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
8b96aba86f0fc279
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.140656

OpenAI category scores

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A person with curly hair sings into a microphone, wearing a light gray shirt and blue strap, with text 'nick' below.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:16 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,793 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 541

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • performing (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • strap (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • singing

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with dark curly hair holding a black microphone close to their mouth. They wear a light gray long-sleeve shirt over a white undershirt and have a blue strap across their chest. The background is dark. Below the figure, the word 'nick' appears in white lowercase letters on a black rectangular bar. The image has pixelated rendering with visible dithering.

Description

  • A person with curly hair sings into a microphone, wearing a light gray shirt and blue strap, with text 'nick' below.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • performing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person singing microphone
  • gray shirt blue strap
  • text nick pixelated

Objects

  • microphone
  • shirt
  • strap

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • nick

Visually Supported Entities

  • nick

Wordwall

  • person
  • curly hair
  • microphone
  • light gray shirt
  • blue strap
  • white undershirt
  • dark background
  • text 'nick'
  • pixelated
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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
20080110160554828297181
Archive entry
20080110160554828297181.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080110160554828297181.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080110160554828297181.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016