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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, standing against a brown textured background with red text reading "Nick!" at the bottom.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, standing against a brown textured background with red text reading "Nick!" at the bottom.

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, standing against a brown textured background with red text reading "Nick!" at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark brown hair and a dark gray short-sleeve shirt. The person is positioned slightly left of center, facing forward with a neutral expression. The background is a brown textured surface with varying shades of brown and tan. At the bottom, large red text with white outline reads "Nick!" in a bold, blocky font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No other objects or text are present.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, standing against a brown textured background with red text reading "Nick!" at the bottom.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080618085801728096649
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nick text
  • red text nick
  • person dark hair
  • dark gray shirt
  • brown background

Visible Text

  • Nick!

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • dark gray shirt
  • brown textured background
  • red text
  • white outline
  • "Nick!" text
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080618085801728096649
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
e2e77dbb2875d415
SHA-256
e2e77dbb2875d41581938416f3c3a5de28e61c61fe09efc092ea78e097e6b964
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Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 00:11 UTC
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1278
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July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, standing against a brown textured background with red text reading "Nick!" at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,639 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 744

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
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  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a person with dark brown hair and a dark gray short-sleeve shirt. The person is positioned slightly left of center, facing forward with a neutral expression. The background is a brown textured surface with varying shades of brown and tan. At the bottom, large red text with white outline reads "Nick!" in a bold, blocky font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No other objects or text are present.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark hair wearing a dark shirt, standing against a brown textured background with red text reading "Nick!" at the bottom.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080618085801728096649
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

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  • person dark hair
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  • brown background

Style

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Subjects

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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
20080618085801728096649
Archive entry
20080618085801728096649.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#20080618085801728096649.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080618085801728096649.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016