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Pixelated pink background with yellow circles and repeated white text 'Nick!!' and '<33333333' in four quadrants.

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Pixelated pink background with yellow circles and repeated white text 'Nick!!' and '<33333333' in four quadrants.

Pixelated pink background with yellow circles and repeated white text 'Nick!!' and '<33333333' in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • semi-transparent overlays

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pixelated composition with a bright pink background overlaid by multiple yellow circles of varying sizes and opacities. Four identical text blocks are arranged in a 2x2 grid: each block contains the text 'Nick!!' in a bold, white, pixelated font followed by '<33333333' in the same style. The yellow circles appear to be semi-transparent, creating overlapping areas with the pink background and text. The overall style is retro digital with low-resolution pixel art characteristics.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with yellow circles and repeated white text 'Nick!!' and '<33333333' in four quadrants.

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

  • pink yellow circles text Nick
  • Nick!! <33333333 pixelated
  • yellow circles
  • retro digital text circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid yellow circles

Visible Text

  • Nick!!
  • <33333333

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow circles
  • white text
  • Nick!!
  • <33333333
  • pixelated
  • semi-transparent
  • repeated text
  • retro digital

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708121556021212199788
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/de/de9124bfa105272cc0f1671885e8d99a6a1c5733ed90226064bc4bcd5ff3f7bd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
de9124bfa105272c
SHA-256
de9124bfa105272cc0f1671885e8d99a6a1c5733ed90226064bc4bcd5ff3f7bd
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
1355
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000912

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
1258
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated pink background with yellow circles and repeated white text 'Nick!!' and '<33333333' in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,753 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 696

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow circles (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • semi-transparent overlays

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pixelated composition with a bright pink background overlaid by multiple yellow circles of varying sizes and opacities. Four identical text blocks are arranged in a 2x2 grid: each block contains the text 'Nick!!' in a bold, white, pixelated font followed by '<33333333' in the same style. The yellow circles appear to be semi-transparent, creating overlapping areas with the pink background and text. The overall style is retro digital with low-resolution pixel art characteristics.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with yellow circles and repeated white text 'Nick!!' and '<33333333' in four quadrants.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink yellow circles text Nick
  • Nick!! <33333333 pixelated
  • yellow circles
  • retro digital text circles

Objects

  • yellow circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid yellow circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Nick!!
  • <33333333

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow circles
  • white text
  • Nick!!
  • <33333333
  • pixelated
  • semi-transparent
  • repeated text
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:23 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708121556021212199788
Archive entry
200708121556021212199788.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708121556021212199788.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708121556021212199788.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016