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A static image with four quadrants displaying stylized letters and text in blue, yellow, black, and white.

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A static image with four quadrants displaying stylized letters and text in blue, yellow, black, and white.

A static image with four quadrants displaying stylized letters and text in blue, yellow, black, and white. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • center vertical strip
  • text and letters

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: yellow background with a blue 'P' outlined in black. Top-right quadrant: yellow background with a blue 'T' outlined in black. Middle-left quadrant: black background with a blue 'T' outlined in yellow. Center vertical strip: blue background with a black 'I' outlined in yellow. Bottom-center: blue background with yellow text 'PANTHERS' outlined in black. All elements are blocky, pixelated, and use a limited color palette of blue, yellow, black, and white.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying stylized letters and text in blue, yellow, black, and white.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue 'P' yellow background
  • blue 'T' yellow background
  • blue 'T' black background
  • blue 'I' yellow outline
  • yellow 'PANTHERS' blue background
  • four quadrants pixelated
  • blocky letters limited colors

Visible Text

  • P
  • I
  • T
  • PANTHERS

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • yellow background
  • blue 'P' with black outline
  • blue 'T' with black outline
  • black background
  • blue 'T' with yellow outline
  • blue 'I' with yellow outline
  • yellow 'PANTHERS' text
  • black outline
  • pixelated style
  • blocky letters
  • limited color palette
  • blue background
  • white background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090223101746784626718
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69aeebdf0cec6ebd5c7a9c4f3851250cf8de26315ddd7eb181ad2c0d5c1ceb17.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
69aeebdf0cec6ebd
SHA-256
69aeebdf0cec6ebd5c7a9c4f3851250cf8de26315ddd7eb181ad2c0d5c1ceb17
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113923

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with four quadrants displaying stylized letters and text in blue, yellow, black, and white.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,298 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,160, response 743

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • center vertical strip
  • text and letters

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: yellow background with a blue 'P' outlined in black. Top-right quadrant: yellow background with a blue 'T' outlined in black. Middle-left quadrant: black background with a blue 'T' outlined in yellow. Center vertical strip: blue background with a black 'I' outlined in yellow. Bottom-center: blue background with yellow text 'PANTHERS' outlined in black. All elements are blocky, pixelated, and use a limited color palette of blue, yellow, black, and white.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying stylized letters and text in blue, yellow, black, and white.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue 'T' yellow background
  • blue 'T' black background
  • blue 'I' yellow outline
  • yellow 'PANTHERS' blue background
  • four quadrants pixelated
  • blocky letters limited colors

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • limited color palette

Visible Text

  • P
  • I
  • T
  • PANTHERS

Wordwall

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  • yellow background
  • blue 'P' with black outline
  • blue 'T' with black outline
  • black background
  • blue 'T' with yellow outline
  • blue 'I' with yellow outline
  • yellow 'PANTHERS' text
  • black outline
  • pixelated style
  • blocky letters
  • limited color palette
  • blue background
  • white background
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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
20090223101746784626718
Archive entry
20090223101746784626718.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090223101746784626718.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090223101746784626718.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016