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Pixelated graphic with red stylized 'C' flanked by wing-like shapes, black outline, white text 'YCW' below on gray background.

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Pixelated graphic with red stylized 'C' flanked by wing-like shapes, black outline, white text 'YCW' below on gray background.

Pixelated graphic with red stylized 'C' flanked by wing-like shapes, black outline, white text 'YCW' below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Na…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central C
  • symmetrical wings
  • text below
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art on gray background. Central red stylized 'C' with black outline, flanked by two red wing-like shapes with black outlines. Below the 'C', white pixelated text 'YCW' with black outline. The 'C' has a black vertical extension beneath it. The wing shapes have irregular, jagged edges. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with red stylized 'C' flanked by wing-like shapes, black outline, white text 'YCW' below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 35487
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 35487
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 35487

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red C wing text YCW
  • pixel art YCW
  • gray background C wings
  • retro digital YCW

Visible Text

  • YCW

Wordwall

  • red stylized C
  • wing-like shapes
  • gray background
  • white text YCW
  • black outline
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
  • jagged edges
  • vertical extension

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
35487
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/27/273d42f23e82da1893b9dc46f99e75ad8c1713dcbe070582131f14cd45894ffc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Archive ID
273d42f23e82da18
SHA-256
273d42f23e82da1893b9dc46f99e75ad8c1713dcbe070582131f14cd45894ffc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000045

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000045falseharassment0.000024falseviolence/graphic0.000010falseviolence0.000009falseself-harm0.000006falseillicit0.000005falsehate0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseharassment/threatening0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069905

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930095onnx/unsafe0.069905onnx/nsfw0.035445onnx/nsfl0.034460
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated graphic with red stylized 'C' flanked by wing-like shapes, black outline, white text 'YCW' below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,869 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 678

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • limited color palette (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stylized c (subject, 0.80)
  • text ycw (subject, 0.80)
  • wing like shapes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central C
  • symmetrical wings
  • text below
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art on gray background. Central red stylized 'C' with black outline, flanked by two red wing-like shapes with black outlines. Below the 'C', white pixelated text 'YCW' with black outline. The 'C' has a black vertical extension beneath it. The wing shapes have irregular, jagged edges. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with red stylized 'C' flanked by wing-like shapes, black outline, white text 'YCW' below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 35487
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 35487
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 35487

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red C wing text YCW
  • pixel art YCW
  • gray background C wings
  • retro digital YCW

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette

Subjects

  • stylized C
  • wing-like shapes
  • text YCW

Visible Text

  • YCW

Wordwall

  • red stylized C
  • wing-like shapes
  • gray background
  • white text YCW
  • black outline
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
  • jagged edges
  • vertical extension
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
35487
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://ballericons.com/icon/35487.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011027074630id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/35487.gif