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Pixelated white 'NC' logo on light blue background with black text boxes containing 'GO', 'UNC', and ':)' in bottom-right.

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Pixelated white 'NC' logo on light blue background with black text boxes containing 'GO', 'UNC', and ':)' in bottom-right.

Pixelated white 'NC' logo on light blue background with black text boxes containing 'GO', 'UNC', and ':)' in bottom-right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered monogram
  • top-left text box
  • bottom-right elements

Dense Caption

Light blue pixelated background features a large white 'NC' monogram. The left side has a black rectangular box above the 'N' containing white 'GO'. The right side shows a black rectangular box below the 'C' with white 'UNC' text, and next to it a small black circular icon with white ':)' emoticon. Both sides share identical blue triangular cutouts within the monogram.

Description

  • Pixelated white 'NC' logo on light blue background with black text boxes containing 'GO', 'UNC', and ':)' in bottom-right.

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

  • NC monogram UNC
  • GO UNC emoticon
  • light blue NC icon
  • pixelated UNC buddy icon

Visible Text

  • GO
  • UNC
  • :)

Visually Supported Entities

  • UNC

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • 'NC' monogram
  • white letters
  • blue triangles
  • black text boxes
  • 'GO' text
  • 'UNC' text
  • :) emoticon
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803241421541354032405
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/12/12beeae5528ad32837ad428cbdf9fcde0d24fa50986661d5ffc88498bb784906.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
12beeae5528ad328
SHA-256
12beeae5528ad32837ad428cbdf9fcde0d24fa50986661d5ffc88498bb784906
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091797

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white 'NC' logo on light blue background with black text boxes containing 'GO', 'UNC', and ':)' in bottom-right.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 10:06 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,290 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 596

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • emoticon (subject, 0.80)
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  • text boxes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • centered monogram
  • top-left text box
  • bottom-right elements

Dense Caption

Light blue pixelated background features a large white 'NC' monogram. The left side has a black rectangular box above the 'N' containing white 'GO'. The right side shows a black rectangular box below the 'C' with white 'UNC' text, and next to it a small black circular icon with white ':)' emoticon. Both sides share identical blue triangular cutouts within the monogram.

Description

  • Pixelated white 'NC' logo on light blue background with black text boxes containing 'GO', 'UNC', and ':)' in bottom-right.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • NC monogram UNC
  • GO UNC emoticon
  • light blue NC icon
  • pixelated UNC buddy icon

Objects

  • monogram
  • text boxes
  • emoticon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon

Subjects

  • monogram
  • text boxes
  • emoticon

Visible Text

  • GO
  • UNC
  • :)

Visually Supported Entities

  • UNC

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • 'NC' monogram
  • white letters
  • blue triangles
  • black text boxes
  • 'GO' text
  • 'UNC' text
  • :) emoticon
  • pixelated style
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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
200803241421541354032405
Archive entry
200803241421541354032405.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803241421541354032405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803241421541354032405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016