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Pixelated blue and white stylized 'NY' text with layered outlines on a dark background.

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Pixelated blue and white stylized 'NY' text with layered outlines on a dark background.

Pixelated blue and white stylized 'NY' text with layered outlines on a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • square crop
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic of the letters 'N' and 'Y' in a stylized, blocky font. The primary colors are various shades of cyan and light blue for the main letter forms, with darker blue or black inner layers creating depth. White outlines define the outer edges of each character. The background is solid dark gray or black. The overall style is retro digital with visible pixelation typical of low-resolution graphics from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and white stylized 'NY' text with layered outlines on a dark 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

Named Entities

  • New York

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ny pixel art icon
  • cyan blue ny text
  • new york buddy icon
  • pixelated ny logo

Visible Text

  • NY

Visually Supported Entities

  • New York
  • NY

Wordwall

  • stylized 'NY'
  • cyan blue
  • white outline
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • layered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801221600181104673980
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
f2429f2547f563ba
SHA-256
f2429f2547f563ba7b0d2dfcb154908c2a2d605a1e1f84296b06a17808e6a894
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 12:32 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue and white stylized 'NY' text with layered outlines on a dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,467 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 568

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • light blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text
  • square crop
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic of the letters 'N' and 'Y' in a stylized, blocky font. The primary colors are various shades of cyan and light blue for the main letter forms, with darker blue or black inner layers creating depth. White outlines define the outer edges of each character. The background is solid dark gray or black. The overall style is retro digital with visible pixelation typical of low-resolution graphics from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and white stylized 'NY' text with layered outlines on a dark 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

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • New York

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ny pixel art icon
  • cyan blue ny text
  • new york buddy icon
  • pixelated ny logo

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • NY

Visually Supported Entities

  • New York
  • NY

Wordwall

  • stylized 'NY'
  • cyan blue
  • white outline
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • layered text
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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
200801221600181104673980
Archive entry
200801221600181104673980.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801221600181104673980.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801221600181104673980.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016