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A white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background with pixelated edges.

A white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background with pixelated edges. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-20…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • monogram
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays a white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background. The monogram features a large 'N' and 'Y' with overlapping, angular, and curved strokes. The 'N' has a vertical stem with a diagonal cross-stroke and a curved right leg. The 'Y' has a vertical stem with two angled arms extending upward and a curved right leg. The entire monogram has pixelated edges, indicating low-resolution rendering. The background is solid dark blue with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • A white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background with pixelated edges.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white NY monogram
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated NY
  • stylized NY monogram
  • NY monogram dark blue
  • white NY on blue
  • NY monogram pixelated
  • NY stylized monogram

Visible Text

  • NY

Wordwall

  • white monogram
  • dark blue background
  • stylized 'NY'
  • pixelated edges
  • overlapping strokes
  • angular and curved lines
  • vertical stem
  • diagonal cross-stroke
  • two angled arms
  • curved right leg

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808242359001090080958
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
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/3742e51a473a6ff7c18fb1f8ee4d837abcba9187ccd1076538a1b775f0d181b3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
3742e51a473a6ff7
SHA-256
3742e51a473a6ff7c18fb1f8ee4d837abcba9187ccd1076538a1b775f0d181b3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.081095

OpenAI category scores

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A white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background with pixelated edges.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,486 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 623

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • monogram (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • centered
  • monogram
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays a white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background. The monogram features a large 'N' and 'Y' with overlapping, angular, and curved strokes. The 'N' has a vertical stem with a diagonal cross-stroke and a curved right leg. The 'Y' has a vertical stem with two angled arms extending upward and a curved right leg. The entire monogram has pixelated edges, indicating low-resolution rendering. The background is solid dark blue with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • A white stylized 'NY' monogram on a dark blue background with pixelated edges.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white NY monogram
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated NY
  • stylized NY monogram
  • NY monogram dark blue
  • white NY on blue
  • NY monogram pixelated
  • NY stylized monogram

Style

  • stylized
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • monogram

Visible Text

  • NY

Wordwall

  • white monogram
  • dark blue background
  • stylized 'NY'
  • pixelated edges
  • overlapping strokes
  • angular and curved lines
  • vertical stem
  • diagonal cross-stroke
  • two angled arms
  • curved right leg
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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
200808242359001090080958
Archive entry
200808242359001090080958.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

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