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Pixelated pink text 'nicole' repeated across black background with white and gray star-shaped cursor icons in various positions.

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Pixelated pink text 'nicole' repeated across black background with white and gray star-shaped cursor icons in various positions.

Pixelated pink text 'nicole' repeated across black background with white and gray star-shaped cursor icons in various positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star cursor icons alternate between white and gray states

Animation Summary

  • Star cursor icons alternate between white and gray states across positions while text remains static.

Composition

  • like arrangement of text and icons
  • text aligned horizontally
  • icons distributed across points

Dense Caption

Black background features three rows of pixelated pink lowercase text reading 'nicole', each row containing three instances. White and gray star-shaped cursor icons appear at multiple positions: top-left (gray), top-center (white), top-right (white), middle-left (white), middle-center (gray), middle-right (white), bottom-left (white), bottom-center (white), bottom-right (white). All text is identical in style, size, and color. Cursor icons alternate between white and gray states across positions.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'nicole' repeated across black background with white and gray star-shaped cursor icons in various positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink 'nicole' text
  • star cursor icons black background
  • repeated 'nicole'
  • gray star top-left

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of three
  • quarantined composition: icons distributed across grid points
  • quarantined composition: text rows aligned horizontally
  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text and icons
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated 'nicole' grid

Visible Text

  • nicole

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'nicole'

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink 'nicole' text
  • three of three
  • star cursor icons
  • gray star icon top-left
  • white star icons elsewhere
  • pixelated font
  • identical text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710080827201723810629
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed50107dbd91ce0483d9f3c983a985f317c817af476020f2a638baf2c224bf1d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
ed50107dbd91ce04
SHA-256
ed50107dbd91ce0483d9f3c983a985f317c817af476020f2a638baf2c224bf1d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.324849

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated pink text 'nicole' repeated across black background with white and gray star-shaped cursor icons in various positions.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,945 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 672

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • star cursor icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text nicole (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star cursor icons alternate between white and gray states

Animation Summary

  • Star cursor icons alternate between white and gray states across positions while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • like arrangement of text and icons
  • text aligned horizontally
  • icons distributed across points

Dense Caption

Black background features three rows of pixelated pink lowercase text reading 'nicole', each row containing three instances. White and gray star-shaped cursor icons appear at multiple positions: top-left (gray), top-center (white), top-right (white), middle-left (white), middle-center (gray), middle-right (white), bottom-left (white), bottom-center (white), bottom-right (white). All text is identical in style, size, and color. Cursor icons alternate between white and gray states across positions.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'nicole' repeated across black background with white and gray star-shaped cursor icons in various positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink 'nicole' text
  • star cursor icons black background
  • repeated 'nicole'
  • gray star top-left

Objects

  • star cursor icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of three
  • quarantined composition: icons distributed across grid points
  • quarantined composition: text rows aligned horizontally
  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text and icons
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated 'nicole' grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive text layout

Subjects

  • text 'nicole'
  • star cursor icons

Visible Text

  • nicole

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'nicole'

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink 'nicole' text
  • three of three
  • star cursor icons
  • gray star icon top-left
  • white star icons elsewhere
  • pixelated font
  • identical text instances
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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
200710080827201723810629
Archive entry
200710080827201723810629.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710080827201723810629.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710080827201723810629.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016