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Four red heart-shaped icons with white text 'Nickson' and smiley face ':)' on black background, two showing pixelated edges.

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Four red heart-shaped icons with white text 'Nickson' and smiley face ':)' on black background, two showing pixelated edges.

Four red heart-shaped icons with white text 'Nickson' and smiley face ':)' on black background, two showing pixelated edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • none

Composition

  • centered text within hearts

Dense Caption

Four identical red hearts arranged in a 2x2 grid against solid black background. Each heart contains centered white text: 'Nickson' (capital N) above ':)' smiley face. Top-left and top-right hearts display visible pixelation along their borders; bottom-left and bottom-right hearts have smooth, non-pixelated edges. All four icons share identical internal content but differ in border rendering quality.

Description

  • Four red heart-shaped icons with white text 'Nickson' and smiley face ':)' on black background, two showing pixelated edges.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Nickson

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

Named Entities

  • Nickson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart Nickson smiley
  • buddy icon Nickson :)
  • pixelated hearts Nickson
  • smooth border Nickson icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Nickson
  • :)

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nickson

Wordwall

  • red heart shape
  • white text 'Nickson'
  • :) smiley face
  • black background
  • pixelated borders (top two)
  • smooth borders (bottom two)
  • identical internal design

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709281135362113587978
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
d2f86699acdadf94
SHA-256
d2f86699acdadf94c6e3c78d3af39136ba3e176a03e62f4d7fc1926c72c05cd0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087145

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Four red heart-shaped icons with white text 'Nickson' and smiley face ':)' on black background, two showing pixelated edges.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:24 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,104 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 586

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • none (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • none

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text within hearts

Dense Caption

Four identical red hearts arranged in a 2x2 grid against solid black background. Each heart contains centered white text: 'Nickson' (capital N) above ':)' smiley face. Top-left and top-right hearts display visible pixelation along their borders; bottom-left and bottom-right hearts have smooth, non-pixelated edges. All four icons share identical internal content but differ in border rendering quality.

Description

  • Four red heart-shaped icons with white text 'Nickson' and smiley face ':)' on black background, two showing pixelated edges.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Nickson

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

Mood

  • cheerful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Nickson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart Nickson smiley
  • buddy icon Nickson :)
  • pixelated hearts Nickson
  • smooth border Nickson icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • buddy icon

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • Nickson
  • :)

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nickson

Wordwall

  • red heart shape
  • white text 'Nickson'
  • :) smiley face
  • black background
  • pixelated borders (top two)
  • smooth borders (bottom two)
  • identical internal design
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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
200709281135362113587978
Archive entry
200709281135362113587978.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709281135362113587978.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709281135362113587978.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016