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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top, next to red pixelated text reading 'nicole <3' on a black background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top, next to red pixelated text reading 'nicole <3' on a black background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top, next to red pixelated text reading 'nicole <3' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • split vertical
  • portrait on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically; the left side shows a pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top against a dark background. The right side features red pixelated text: 'nicole' in lowercase letters followed by '<3' below it, all on a solid black background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The text is rendered in a distinct red color with visible pixelation. The person's face is partially visible with closed eyes and a neutral expression. The overall composition is asymmetrical with the portrait on the left and text on the right.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top, next to red pixelated text reading 'nicole <3' on a black background.

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

  • nicole <3
  • pixelated portrait red text
  • grayscale portrait text
  • asymmetrical split image
  • red <3 symbol
  • grayscale <3
  • text <3
  • grayscale portrait <3

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • nicole
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait
  • pixelated grayscale
  • dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • red text
  • black background
  • <3 symbol
  • asymmetrical composition
  • low-resolution
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • grayscale tones
  • text on right
  • portrait on left

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708060900591104124718
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd32bcd504ea749468c2c5f4b54bfba89f31de75fc07b7a83ece46ad40e3f200.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
fd32bcd504ea7494
SHA-256
fd32bcd504ea749468c2c5f4b54bfba89f31de75fc07b7a83ece46ad40e3f200
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010282

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
1245
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 20:09 UTC
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1140
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OpenAI category scores

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

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top, next to red pixelated text reading 'nicole <3' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,003 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 745

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • red

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • split vertical
  • portrait on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically; the left side shows a pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top against a dark background. The right side features red pixelated text: 'nicole' in lowercase letters followed by '<3' below it, all on a solid black background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The text is rendered in a distinct red color with visible pixelation. The person's face is partially visible with closed eyes and a neutral expression. The overall composition is asymmetrical with the portrait on the left and text on the right.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and a light-colored top, next to red pixelated text reading 'nicole <3' on a black background.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nicole <3
  • pixelated portrait red text
  • grayscale portrait text
  • asymmetrical split image
  • red <3 symbol
  • grayscale <3
  • text <3
  • grayscale portrait <3

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • text-based

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • nicole
  • <3

Wordwall

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  • pixelated grayscale
  • dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • red text
  • black background
  • <3 symbol
  • asymmetrical composition
  • low-resolution
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • grayscale tones
  • text on right
  • portrait on left
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708060900591104124718
Archive entry
200708060900591104124718.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708060900591104124718.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708060900591104124718.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016