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Red Greek letters ΦKT above black text Phi Tau Buddy on gray background with yellow-shirted pixel character holding white ball.

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Red Greek letters ΦKT above black text Phi Tau Buddy on gray background with yellow-shirted pixel character holding white ball.

Red Greek letters ΦKT above black text Phi Tau Buddy on gray background with yellow-shirted pixel character holding white ball. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons N…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text top-center
  • character bottom-left

Dense Caption

Gray background. Red uppercase Greek letter phi (Φ) followed by red uppercase Latin K and T, all in bold serif font with slight shadow effect. Below these letters: black sans-serif text "Phi" above "Tau", both with white outlines; below that, black sans-serif text "Buddy" with white outline. In bottom-left corner: pixelated character wearing yellow shirt, gray pants, holding white ball with right hand. Character has round head and simple limbs.

Description

  • Red Greek letters ΦKT above black text Phi Tau Buddy on gray background with yellow-shirted pixel character holding white ball.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • phi tau buddy icon
  • yellow character ball gray background
  • red phi kt text
  • 2000s digital buddy icon

Visible Text

  • ΦKT
  • Phi Tau Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Phi Tau
  • buddy icon

Wordwall

  • red Greek letter phi
  • red Latin K
  • red Latin T
  • gray background
  • black text "Phi"
  • black text "Tau"
  • black text "Buddy"
  • white outlines on text
  • yellow-shirted character
  • white ball held by character

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
11764
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:47 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/febe31da295087645dcf15ce195e2d50fa141f284afe9f69c05de3f913279741.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 01:47 UTC
Archive ID
febe31da29508764
SHA-256
febe31da295087645dcf15ce195e2d50fa141f284afe9f69c05de3f913279741
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109379

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Red Greek letters ΦKT above black text Phi Tau Buddy on gray background with yellow-shirted pixel character holding white ball.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:09 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,579 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,050, response 588

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray pants (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • ball (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
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  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray pants

Composition

  • text top-center
  • character bottom-left

Dense Caption

Gray background. Red uppercase Greek letter phi (Φ) followed by red uppercase Latin K and T, all in bold serif font with slight shadow effect. Below these letters: black sans-serif text "Phi" above "Tau", both with white outlines; below that, black sans-serif text "Buddy" with white outline. In bottom-left corner: pixelated character wearing yellow shirt, gray pants, holding white ball with right hand. Character has round head and simple limbs.

Description

  • Red Greek letters ΦKT above black text Phi Tau Buddy on gray background with yellow-shirted pixel character holding white ball.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • phi tau buddy icon
  • yellow character ball gray background
  • red phi kt text
  • 2000s digital buddy icon

Objects

  • ball

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • ΦKT
  • Phi Tau Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Phi Tau
  • buddy icon

Wordwall

  • red Greek letter phi
  • red Latin K
  • red Latin T
  • gray background
  • black text "Phi"
  • black text "Tau"
  • black text "Buddy"
  • white outlines on text
  • yellow-shirted character
  • white ball held by character
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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
11764
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:47 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://ballericons.com/icon/11764.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011127215244id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/11764.gif