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Blue background with four yellow 'Nick' texts and green pixelated border elements.

Blue background with four yellow 'Nick' texts and green pixelated border elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four corner texts
  • central shape
  • border frame

Dense Caption

Blue background with four instances of the text 'Nick' in yellow pixelated font positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Green pixelated border elements form a decorative frame around the edges. A central green pixelated starburst or cross shape is present in the middle. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with distinct pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with four yellow 'Nick' texts and green pixelated border elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow green pixelated
  • four Nick texts
  • central starburst
  • retro digital border

Visible Text

  • Nick

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • green border
  • pixelated
  • four 'Nick' texts
  • central starburst
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090125161000654300531
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 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 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
dae93fc4f81b2e1b
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071691

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with four yellow 'Nick' texts and green pixelated border elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,470 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 606

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • four corner texts
  • central shape
  • border frame

Dense Caption

Blue background with four instances of the text 'Nick' in yellow pixelated font positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Green pixelated border elements form a decorative frame around the edges. A central green pixelated starburst or cross shape is present in the middle. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with distinct pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with four yellow 'Nick' texts and green pixelated border elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow green pixelated
  • four Nick texts
  • central starburst
  • retro digital border

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Nick

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • green border
  • pixelated
  • four 'Nick' texts
  • central starburst
  • retro digital
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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
20090125161000654300531
Archive entry
20090125161000654300531.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090125161000654300531.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090125161000654300531.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016