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A pixelated bird mascot with a maroon hat, yellow beak, and black body appears above a Nike logo shield on a blue background.

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A pixelated bird mascot with a maroon hat, yellow beak, and black body appears above a Nike logo shield on a blue background.

A pixelated bird mascot with a maroon hat, yellow beak, and black body appears above a Nike logo shield on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left bird, top-right text, bottom-left logo, bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a cartoon bird head: maroon feathered hat, black face, white eye stripe, yellow beak with visible teeth, thin white neck; solid black background. Top-right quadrant contains red pixelated text "Go Birds #21" on black background. Bottom-left quadrant displays a shield-shaped Nike logo: white center with red swoosh, bordered by red and blue edges; solid blue background. Bottom-right quadrant is empty gray space. All elements are static.

Description

  • A pixelated bird mascot with a maroon hat, yellow beak, and black body appears above a Nike logo shield on a blue 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

  • bird mascot maroon hat yellow beak
  • Go Birds #21 text
  • Nike swoosh shield blue background
  • pixelated cartoon bird

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • Go Birds #21

Visually Supported Entities

  • bird mascot
  • Nike logo

Wordwall

  • bird mascot
  • maroon hat
  • yellow beak
  • black face
  • white eye stripe
  • red text "Go Birds #21"
  • Nike swoosh logo
  • shield shape
  • blue background
  • gray empty space

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008072318524881727940
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41778d83ea91422528d3c61157d9e2278f7eb0258ddc4df1efe7cb9e3e8d2338.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
41778d83ea914225
SHA-256
41778d83ea91422528d3c61157d9e2278f7eb0258ddc4df1efe7cb9e3e8d2338
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131922

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated bird mascot with a maroon hat, yellow beak, and black body appears above a Nike logo shield on a blue background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,643 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 670

Review tags

  • blue background (object, 0.80)
  • gray space (object, 0.80)
  • maroon hat (object, 0.80)
  • red text (object, 0.80)
  • shield shape (object, 0.80)
  • swoosh logo (object, 0.80)
  • white eye stripe (object, 0.80)
  • yellow beak (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bird mascot (subject, 0.80)
  • nike logo (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • maroon
  • black
  • yellow
  • white
  • red
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left bird, top-right text, bottom-left logo, bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a cartoon bird head: maroon feathered hat, black face, white eye stripe, yellow beak with visible teeth, thin white neck; solid black background. Top-right quadrant contains red pixelated text "Go Birds #21" on black background. Bottom-left quadrant displays a shield-shaped Nike logo: white center with red swoosh, bordered by red and blue edges; solid blue background. Bottom-right quadrant is empty gray space. All elements are static.

Description

  • A pixelated bird mascot with a maroon hat, yellow beak, and black body appears above a Nike logo shield on a blue 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

  • bird mascot maroon hat yellow beak
  • Go Birds #21 text
  • Nike swoosh shield blue background
  • pixelated cartoon bird

Objects

  • maroon hat
  • yellow beak
  • white eye stripe
  • red text
  • swoosh logo
  • shield shape
  • blue background
  • gray space

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • blocky

Subjects

  • bird mascot
  • Nike logo

Visible Text

  • Go Birds #21

Visually Supported Entities

  • bird mascot
  • Nike logo

Wordwall

  • bird mascot
  • maroon hat
  • yellow beak
  • black face
  • white eye stripe
  • red text "Go Birds #21"
  • Nike swoosh logo
  • shield shape
  • blue background
  • gray empty space
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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
2008072318524881727940
Archive entry
2008072318524881727940.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#2008072318524881727940.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008072318524881727940.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016