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Pixelated cyan text reads "NICKEL is AWSOME!" on a bright pink background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

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Pixelated cyan text reads "NICKEL is AWSOME!" on a bright pink background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

Pixelated cyan text reads "NICKEL is AWSOME!" on a bright pink background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four quadrants identical with static text and stars.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with scattered white five-pointed stars. Four identical blocks of pixelated cyan text read "NICKEL is AWSOME!" arranged in two rows and two columns across the image. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. Each star has soft edges and varying opacity levels. No visible motion or animation changes detected. All four quadrants display identical content with no differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text reads "NICKEL is AWSOME!" on a bright pink background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802160630512092144984
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • NICKEL

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nicker is awsome
  • pink background white stars cyan text
  • pixelated nickel is awsome
  • four quadrants nickel awsome

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all four quadrants identical.

Visible Text

  • NICKEL is AWSOME!

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • NICKEL is AWSOME!
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802160630512092144984
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/98d00a36ec39fa1ad8f6a2feec77425143da677ffd9620296715763b8fb9de88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
98d00a36ec39fa1a
SHA-256
98d00a36ec39fa1ad8f6a2feec77425143da677ffd9620296715763b8fb9de88
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095663

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text reads "NICKEL is AWSOME!" on a bright pink background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 22:30 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,513 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 552

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four quadrants identical with static text and stars.

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with scattered white five-pointed stars. Four identical blocks of pixelated cyan text read "NICKEL is AWSOME!" arranged in two rows and two columns across the image. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. Each star has soft edges and varying opacity levels. No visible motion or animation changes detected. All four quadrants display identical content with no differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text reads "NICKEL is AWSOME!" on a bright pink background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802160630512092144984
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Named Entities

  • NICKEL

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nicker is awsome
  • pink background white stars cyan text
  • pixelated nickel is awsome
  • four quadrants nickel awsome

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all four quadrants identical.

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • NICKEL is AWSOME!

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • NICKEL is AWSOME!
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants
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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
200802160630512092144984
Archive entry
200802160630512092144984.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802160630512092144984.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802160630512092144984.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016