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Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two

Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeated text and plus signs.

Composition

  • two horizontal text
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

The image features a solid cyan background. Scattered across the background are multiple dark blue pixelated plus signs of varying sizes, including small dots and larger crosses. Two horizontal lines of bright pink pixelated text read "nickmister" on both top and bottom rows; each line contains two instances of the word separated by space. The visual style is retro digital with low-resolution pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710041800301719082599
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text blue plus signs
  • pixelated nickmister cyan blue
  • two nickmister plus signs
  • retro digital buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two rows.
  • quarantined composition: two horizontal text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows nickmister plus signs

Visible Text

  • nickmister

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • dark blue plus signs
  • bright pink text
  • pixelated font
  • two 'nickmister' lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710041800301719082599
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
592 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d7c0847ad335dd7cba14b5f4793e52a134287fa47d9ab05f00a2fb55527a9d28.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
d7c0847ad335dd7c
SHA-256
d7c0847ad335dd7cba14b5f4793e52a134287fa47d9ab05f00a2fb55527a9d28
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.196336

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.888512onnx/unsafe0.196336onnx/nsfw0.155680onnx/nsfl0.040656
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Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,466 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 558

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution pixels (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeated text and plus signs.

Colors

  • cyan
  • dark blue
  • bright pink

Composition

  • two horizontal text
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

The image features a solid cyan background. Scattered across the background are multiple dark blue pixelated plus signs of varying sizes, including small dots and larger crosses. Two horizontal lines of bright pink pixelated text read "nickmister" on both top and bottom rows; each line contains two instances of the word separated by space. The visual style is retro digital with low-resolution pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710041800301719082599
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text blue plus signs
  • pixelated nickmister cyan blue
  • two nickmister plus signs
  • retro digital buddy icon

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated blue background with scattered dark blue plus signs and pink 'nickmister' text in two rows.
  • quarantined composition: two horizontal text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows nickmister plus signs

Style

  • retro digital
  • low-resolution pixels

Visible Text

  • nickmister

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • dark blue plus signs
  • bright pink text
  • pixelated font
  • two 'nickmister' lines
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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
200710041800301719082599
Archive entry
200710041800301719082599.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#200710041800301719082599.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710041800301719082599.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016