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Red Greek letters ΦΚΘ above black text "Phi Kap Buddy" and a pixelated character in yellow shirt holding white ball on gray background.

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Red Greek letters ΦΚΘ above black text "Phi Kap Buddy" and a pixelated character in yellow shirt holding white ball on gray background.

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Composition

  • top: Greek letters; middle: text; bottom-left: character

Dense Caption

The image displays three large red Greek letters (Φ, K, Θ) at the top. Below them is black text reading "Phi Kap Buddy" with partial letter rendering errors: "Kap" shows missing pixels in the 'a' and 'p', and "Buddy" has a broken underline. In the bottom-left corner, there's a pixelated character wearing a yellow shirt holding a white ball; the character's head is round and white with gray outlines. The background is solid light gray.

Description

  • Red Greek letters ΦΚΘ above black text "Phi Kap Buddy" and a pixelated character in yellow shirt holding white ball on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Phi Kappa Theta
  • buddy icons
  • AOL IM
  • Ballericons collection

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Greek letters Phi Kap Buddy character yellow shirt white ball
  • Phi Kap Buddy pixel art text errors
  • red Greek letters black text gray background
  • buddy icon with broken underline

Visible Text

  • ΦΚΘ
  • Phi Kap Buddy

Wordwall

  • red Greek letters ΦΚΘ
  • black text "Phi Kap Buddy"
  • "Kap" has missing pixels in 'a' and 'p'
  • "Buddy" has broken underline
  • pixelated character in yellow shirt
  • character holds white ball
  • gray background

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
13388
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 02:33 UTC
Archive ID
91d7eaa2e0e30462
SHA-256
91d7eaa2e0e304629af939c7329d764365399f695929061ac863a1f35caa7b56
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099187

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Red Greek letters ΦΚΘ above black text "Phi Kap Buddy" and a pixelated character in yellow shirt holding white ball on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:34 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,927 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,055, response 585

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • white ball (object, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding a white ball

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • top: Greek letters; middle: text; bottom-left: character

Dense Caption

The image displays three large red Greek letters (Φ, K, Θ) at the top. Below them is black text reading "Phi Kap Buddy" with partial letter rendering errors: "Kap" shows missing pixels in the 'a' and 'p', and "Buddy" has a broken underline. In the bottom-left corner, there's a pixelated character wearing a yellow shirt holding a white ball; the character's head is round and white with gray outlines. The background is solid light gray.

Description

  • Red Greek letters ΦΚΘ above black text "Phi Kap Buddy" and a pixelated character in yellow shirt holding white ball on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Phi Kappa Theta
  • buddy icons
  • AOL IM
  • Ballericons collection

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Greek letters Phi Kap Buddy character yellow shirt white ball
  • Phi Kap Buddy pixel art text errors
  • red Greek letters black text gray background
  • buddy icon with broken underline

Objects

  • white ball

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • Greek letters (Φ, K, Θ)
  • pixelated character

Visible Text

  • ΦΚΘ
  • Phi Kap Buddy

Wordwall

  • red Greek letters ΦΚΘ
  • black text "Phi Kap Buddy"
  • "Kap" has missing pixels in 'a' and 'p'
  • "Buddy" has broken underline
  • pixelated character in yellow shirt
  • character holds white ball
  • gray background
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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
13388
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:33 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/13388.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612110557id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/13388.gif