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A pixelated red letter N with a yellow border, partially overlaid by the orange text 'ale' on a white background.

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A pixelated red letter N with a yellow border, partially overlaid by the orange text 'ale' on a white background.

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central letter N
  • overlapping text block
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static 8-bit style icon featuring a large red capital letter N with a thick yellow outline and thin white inner border. The left side of the N is fully visible while the right side is partially obscured by an overlapping orange block containing the lowercase letters 'a', 'l', and 'e' in pixelated font. The background consists of solid white pixels. All elements are rendered with low-resolution, dithered color transitions typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated red letter N with a yellow border, partially overlaid by the orange text 'ale' on a white 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red N yellow border
  • orange ale text
  • pixelated letter N
  • white background icon

Subjects

  • text block

Visible Text

  • N
  • ale

Visually Supported Entities

  • N
  • ale

Wordwall

  • red letter N
  • yellow border
  • orange text 'ale'
  • white background
  • pixelated style
  • low resolution
  • dithered colors
  • partially obscured

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080820193756960534086
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36ce66214eb5d62d4727c308a725ebf56ff6c760a24cf10cac903b6fff16d023.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
36ce66214eb5d62d
SHA-256
36ce66214eb5d62d4727c308a725ebf56ff6c760a24cf10cac903b6fff16d023
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 21:13 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000530

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000530falseself-harm0.000454falsesexual0.000097falseviolence/graphic0.000014falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.182884

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.817116onnx/unsafe0.182884onnx/nsfw0.150169onnx/nsfl0.032715
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A pixelated red letter N with a yellow border, partially overlaid by the orange text 'ale' on a white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,414 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 581

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • dithered colors (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • letter n (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • central letter N
  • overlapping text block
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static 8-bit style icon featuring a large red capital letter N with a thick yellow outline and thin white inner border. The left side of the N is fully visible while the right side is partially obscured by an overlapping orange block containing the lowercase letters 'a', 'l', and 'e' in pixelated font. The background consists of solid white pixels. All elements are rendered with low-resolution, dithered color transitions typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated red letter N with a yellow border, partially overlaid by the orange text 'ale' on a white 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red N yellow border
  • orange ale text
  • pixelated letter N
  • white background icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution
  • dithered colors

Subjects

  • letter N
  • text block

Visible Text

  • N
  • ale

Visually Supported Entities

  • N
  • ale

Wordwall

  • red letter N
  • yellow border
  • orange text 'ale'
  • white background
  • pixelated style
  • low resolution
  • dithered colors
  • partially obscured
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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
20080820193756960534086
Archive entry
20080820193756960534086.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080820193756960534086.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080820193756960534086.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016