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Pixelated graphic with horizontal stripes and text above and below a central symbol.

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Pixelated graphic with horizontal stripes and text above and below a central symbol.

Pixelated graphic with horizontal stripes and text above and below a central symbol. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs, Early-to-Mid-2000s Ma…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal stripes
  • text top and bottom
  • central symbol

Dense Caption

Static pixel art displays 'Tau Beta' in black and white pixelated text at the top. Below, a horizontal striped flag features red, white, blue, green, and black bands. Centered on the blue band is a golden lyre symbol. 'Sigma' appears in black and white pixelated text at the bottom. The background is solid gray. All text and symbols are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with horizontal stripes and text above and below a central symbol.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tau beta sigma lyre
  • horizontal stripes golden lyre
  • red white blue green black flag
  • pixel art tau beta sigma

Visible Text

  • Tau
  • Beta
  • Sigma

Wordwall

  • horizontal stripes
  • red white blue green black
  • golden lyre
  • pixelated text
  • gray background
  • Tau Beta
  • Sigma
  • static image
  • low-resolution
  • central symbol

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
14869
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/4222d847d523a2a411c5f4bbfebe339ae44502143a5c69e26a252ac41c173705.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:21 UTC
Archive ID
4222d847d523a2a4
SHA-256
4222d847d523a2a411c5f4bbfebe339ae44502143a5c69e26a252ac41c173705
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 05:51 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000009

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.000009falsesexual0.000005falseillicit0.000003falsehate0.000002falseviolence0.000001falseviolence/graphic0.000001falseself-harm0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falseself-harm/intent0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/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 07:00 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075774

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924226onnx/unsafe0.075774onnx/nsfw0.043071onnx/nsfl0.032703
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated graphic with horizontal stripes and text above and below a central symbol.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,674 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,055, response 747

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • golden (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • lyre (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • green
  • black
  • golden
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal stripes
  • text top and bottom
  • central symbol

Dense Caption

Static pixel art displays 'Tau Beta' in black and white pixelated text at the top. Below, a horizontal striped flag features red, white, blue, green, and black bands. Centered on the blue band is a golden lyre symbol. 'Sigma' appears in black and white pixelated text at the bottom. The background is solid gray. All text and symbols are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with horizontal stripes and text above and below a central symbol.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tau beta sigma lyre
  • horizontal stripes golden lyre
  • red white blue green black flag
  • pixel art tau beta sigma

Objects

  • lyre

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • lyre

Visible Text

  • Tau
  • Beta
  • Sigma

Wordwall

  • horizontal stripes
  • red white blue green black
  • golden lyre
  • pixelated text
  • gray background
  • Tau Beta
  • Sigma
  • static image
  • low-resolution
  • central symbol
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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
14869
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:21 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://www.ballericons.com/icon/14869.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612105800id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/14869.gif