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Pixelated icon with white stylized letter Y on black background, flanked by green and red vertical shapes.

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Pixelated icon with white stylized letter Y on black background, flanked by green and red vertical shapes.

Pixelated icon with white stylized letter Y on black background, flanked by green and red vertical shapes. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered Y
  • green shape left
  • red shape right
  • black background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated image with a black background. A white stylized letter Y is centered, with a green vertical shape on the left side and a red vertical shape on the right side. The green shape is slightly curved and positioned to the left of the Y. The red shape is also slightly curved and positioned to the right of the Y. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with white stylized letter Y on black background, flanked by green and red vertical shapes.

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

  • white Y green red black
  • pixelated Y green red
  • stylized Y green red background
  • green red Y black background

Wordwall

  • white stylized Y
  • green vertical shape
  • red vertical shape
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • centered Y
  • curved shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708202013372000084789
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a704b13f68394b34fbec1473e342a02e1bcb7f107f2251c2094670619e234ec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
6a704b13f68394b3
SHA-256
6a704b13f68394b34fbec1473e342a02e1bcb7f107f2251c2094670619e234ec
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
0.088642

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with white stylized letter Y on black background, flanked by green and red vertical shapes.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,756 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • green shape (subject, 0.80)
  • red shape (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized y (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • centered Y
  • green shape left
  • red shape right
  • black background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated image with a black background. A white stylized letter Y is centered, with a green vertical shape on the left side and a red vertical shape on the right side. The green shape is slightly curved and positioned to the left of the Y. The red shape is also slightly curved and positioned to the right of the Y. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with white stylized letter Y on black background, flanked by green and red vertical shapes.

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

  • white Y green red black
  • pixelated Y green red
  • stylized Y green red background
  • green red Y black background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • stylized Y
  • green shape
  • red shape

Wordwall

  • white stylized Y
  • green vertical shape
  • red vertical shape
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • centered Y
  • curved shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708202013372000084789
Archive entry
200708202013372000084789.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708202013372000084789.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708202013372000084789.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016