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A static pixelated icon features a large black letter U centered over a beige star with five points, set against a white background.

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A static pixelated icon features a large black letter U centered over a beige star with five points, set against a white background.

A static pixelated icon features a large black letter U centered over a beige star with five points, set against a white background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Buddy-Ic…

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Composition

  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • star behind letter

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image with a beige star having five points as the background. A large black letter U is centered over the star. The star's points extend to the edges of the icon. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited color palette of beige, black, and white. The letter U has a slightly rounded top and a flat base. The star's points are evenly spaced. The icon has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A static pixelated icon features a large black letter U centered over a beige star with five points, set against a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (gallery): Vanderbilt Commodores 6
  • observation category (gallery): college
  • observation category (gallery): college icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
  • observation category (broad): img
  • observation category (gallery): page11
  • observation title (gallery): College icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-info
  • observation alt-text (broad): 24093
  • observation category (broad): icon
  • observation file-name (broad): 24093
  • observation file-name (gallery): 24093

Metadata Only Entities

  • Vanderbilt Commodores

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance era: 2011

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige star black U
  • black U beige star
  • star behind U
  • beige star letter U
  • U star icon
  • black U beige star icon
  • beige star pixelated U
  • U centered beige star

Objects

  • star

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • U

Wordwall

  • beige star
  • black letter U
  • five-pointed star
  • centered U
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • solid white
  • beige and black

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard

Source title
College icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / college / page11 / college icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 22:46 UTC

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Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
24093
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:38 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/e4/e4a9ddf7b8793a64057f55471eac23e7f9fe5421186bf32c754521e58598a6f4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 22:46 UTC
Archive ID
e4a9ddf7b8793a64
SHA-256
e4a9ddf7b8793a64057f55471eac23e7f9fe5421186bf32c754521e58598a6f4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075652

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924348onnx/unsafe0.075652onnx/nsfw0.038272onnx/nsfl0.037380
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static pixelated icon features a large black letter U centered over a beige star with five points, set against a white background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 12:00 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,439 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,039, response 699

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • letter u (subject, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • star behind letter

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image with a beige star having five points as the background. A large black letter U is centered over the star. The star's points extend to the edges of the icon. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited color palette of beige, black, and white. The letter U has a slightly rounded top and a flat base. The star's points are evenly spaced. The icon has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A static pixelated icon features a large black letter U centered over a beige star with five points, set against a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (gallery): Vanderbilt Commodores 6
  • observation category (gallery): college
  • observation category (gallery): college icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
  • observation category (broad): img
  • observation category (gallery): page11
  • observation title (gallery): College icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-info
  • observation alt-text (broad): 24093
  • observation category (broad): icon
  • observation file-name (broad): 24093
  • observation file-name (gallery): 24093

Metadata Only Entities

  • Vanderbilt Commodores

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance era: 2011

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige star black U
  • black U beige star
  • star behind U
  • beige star letter U
  • U star icon
  • black U beige star icon
  • beige star pixelated U
  • U centered beige star

Objects

  • star

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • letter U
  • star

Visible Text

  • U

Wordwall

  • beige star
  • black letter U
  • five-pointed star
  • centered U
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • solid white
  • beige and black
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 02:55 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)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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Full source records (2)
Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-remaining-categories-portal)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / college / page11 / college icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
College icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
Vanderbilt Commodores 6
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 22:46 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
remaining AIM portal categories spanning identity, emotion, school, holidays, sports, symbols, and everyday culture
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/24093.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20080106214606id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/24093.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20080106214606id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info/aim-icons/Vanderbilt_Commodores_6.html 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
24093
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:38 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/24093.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111127171740id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/24093.gif