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A static pixelated icon featuring a large blue 'N' with a white star-like shape inside, set against a white background.

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A static pixelated icon featuring a large blue 'N' with a white star-like shape inside, set against a white background.

A static pixelated icon featuring a large blue 'N' with a white star-like shape inside, set against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central white shape within blue N
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated image with a white background. It displays a large, bold, blue capital letter 'N' with a thick outline. Inside the negative space of the 'N', there is a white, irregularly shaped star-like form with multiple points. The blue 'N' has a slightly darker blue inner outline. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The blue color is a deep, saturated hue. The white star-like shape is positioned centrally within the 'N', with its points extending towards the edges of the 'N's structure. The overall composition is simple and geometric.

Description

  • A static pixelated icon featuring a large blue 'N' with a white star-like shape inside, set against a white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708271714261964676905

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue N with white star
  • pixelated N icon
  • white star inside blue N
  • static blue N icon
  • low-resolution N with star
  • geometric N with star
  • blue N white background star
  • white background blue N star

Wordwall

  • blue capital letter N
  • white star-like shape
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution
  • geometric composition
  • deep blue color
  • irregular star points
  • central white shape

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708271714261964676905
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d8abcd181d0c673cbe558edd74a20f31bdb4ddcd6bad61eb8e157727b888d42.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
7d8abcd181d0c673
SHA-256
7d8abcd181d0c673cbe558edd74a20f31bdb4ddcd6bad61eb8e157727b888d42
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 24, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
1336
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000554

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:16 UTC
Run
1081
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119698

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static pixelated icon featuring a large blue 'N' with a white star-like shape inside, set against a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,825 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 761

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • letter n (subject, 0.80)
  • star like shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • central white shape within blue N
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated image with a white background. It displays a large, bold, blue capital letter 'N' with a thick outline. Inside the negative space of the 'N', there is a white, irregularly shaped star-like form with multiple points. The blue 'N' has a slightly darker blue inner outline. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The blue color is a deep, saturated hue. The white star-like shape is positioned centrally within the 'N', with its points extending towards the edges of the 'N's structure. The overall composition is simple and geometric.

Description

  • A static pixelated icon featuring a large blue 'N' with a white star-like shape inside, set against a white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708271714261964676905

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue N with white star
  • pixelated N icon
  • white star inside blue N
  • static blue N icon
  • low-resolution N with star
  • geometric N with star
  • blue N white background star
  • white background blue N star

Style

  • pixelated
  • geometric
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • letter N
  • star-like shape

Wordwall

  • blue capital letter N
  • white star-like shape
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution
  • geometric composition
  • deep blue color
  • irregular star points
  • central white shape
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:21 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708271714261964676905
Archive entry
200708271714261964676905.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708271714261964676905.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708271714261964676905.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016