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Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background

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Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background

Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background. Animated 48×48 GIF AI…

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Composition

  • 20 identical icons
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of identical purple circular icons with a white 'Y' and exclamation mark inside each circle. Below each icon, the text 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' appears in white pixelated font on a brown pixelated background. The grid consists of 20 identical icons arranged in 4 rows and 5 columns. Each icon has a glossy purple fill with a darker purple border. The background features a repeating pattern of brown and orange pixels. The text 'YAHOO!' is in uppercase with an exclamation mark, and 'MESSENGER' is in uppercase without punctuation. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery blinkies.iconhell.com
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com
  • observation category (broad): geek
  • observation category (gallery): Geek
  • observation category (gallery): geek buddy icons
  • observation category (broad): geek buddy icons aim buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Geek Buddy Icons
  • observation title (broad): Geek Buddy Icons - AIM Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
  • observation file-name (broad): iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
  • observation category (broad): icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • YAHOO! MESSENGER icon
  • purple Y icon
  • pixelated YAHOO! MESSENGER
  • retro digital icon
  • YAHOO! MESSENGER
  • YAHOO! MESSENGER text
  • purple circular icon
  • brown background icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a grid with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 5 columns
  • quarantined wordwall: 4 rows
  • quarantined composition: 5 columns
  • quarantined composition: 4 rows
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: YAHOO! MESSENGER grid

Visible Text

  • YAHOO! MESSENGER

Wordwall

  • purple circular icon
  • white 'Y' symbol
  • exclamation mark
  • YAHOO! MESSENGER text
  • brown pixelated background
  • glossy purple fill
  • darker purple border
  • 20 identical icons
  • pixelated font
  • uppercase text
  • repeating pattern
  • retro digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
Category
IconHell/Geek
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Prospect Arquivo.pt page replay iconhell.com

Source title
Geek Buddy Icons - AIM Buddy Icons
Category
icons / geek / geek buddy icons aim buddy icons
Observed
August 19, 2026 at 21:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (20 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/35f997909bcf56ac073cc78015cd675ce7c9854c13e1f468cf25a8ef20ede44c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Archive ID
35f997909bcf56ac
SHA-256
35f997909bcf56ac073cc78015cd675ce7c9854c13e1f468cf25a8ef20ede44c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088515

OpenAI category scores

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

Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,695 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,318, response 846

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • yahoo messenger icon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • brown
  • orange

Composition

  • 20 identical icons
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of identical purple circular icons with a white 'Y' and exclamation mark inside each circle. Below each icon, the text 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' appears in white pixelated font on a brown pixelated background. The grid consists of 20 identical icons arranged in 4 rows and 5 columns. Each icon has a glossy purple fill with a darker purple border. The background features a repeating pattern of brown and orange pixels. The text 'YAHOO!' is in uppercase with an exclamation mark, and 'MESSENGER' is in uppercase without punctuation. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery blinkies.iconhell.com
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com
  • observation category (broad): geek
  • observation category (gallery): Geek
  • observation category (gallery): geek buddy icons
  • observation category (broad): geek buddy icons aim buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Geek Buddy Icons
  • observation title (broad): Geek Buddy Icons - AIM Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
  • observation file-name (broad): iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
  • observation category (broad): icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • YAHOO! MESSENGER icon
  • purple Y icon
  • pixelated YAHOO! MESSENGER
  • retro digital icon
  • YAHOO! MESSENGER
  • YAHOO! MESSENGER text
  • purple circular icon
  • brown background icon

Objects

  • YAHOO! MESSENGER icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Purple circular icon with white 'Y!' symbol and exclamation mark, repeated in a grid with 'YAHOO! MESSENGER' text below each icon on a brown pixelated background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 5 columns
  • quarantined wordwall: 4 rows
  • quarantined composition: 5 columns
  • quarantined composition: 4 rows
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: YAHOO! MESSENGER grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • YAHOO! MESSENGER icon

Visible Text

  • YAHOO! MESSENGER

Wordwall

  • purple circular icon
  • white 'Y' symbol
  • exclamation mark
  • YAHOO! MESSENGER text
  • brown pixelated background
  • glossy purple fill
  • darker purple border
  • 20 identical icons
  • pixelated font
  • uppercase text
  • repeating pattern
  • retro digital graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 07:43 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 (17)
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Full source records (4)
Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/Geek
Title
iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01
Archive entry
IconHell/Geek/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture
Original: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FGeek%2Ficonhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Download: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FGeek%2Ficonhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Page: https://github.com/Hmmnd0/buddy-icon-repository 
Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com (horizon-live-www-iconhell-com-f685daddb571)
Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
geek buddy icons / geek buddy icons
Title
Geek Buddy Icons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.
Original: http://www.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Download: http://www.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Page: http://www.iconhell.com/Geek_Buddy_Icons.html 
Prospect live gallery blinkies.iconhell.com (horizon-live-blinkies-iconhell-com-031725b87477)
Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
geek buddy icons / geek buddy icons
Title
Geek Buddy Icons
Observed
July 27, 2026 at 11:56 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.
Original: http://blinkies.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Download: http://blinkies.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Page: http://blinkies.iconhell.com/Geek_Buddy_Icons.html 
Prospect Arquivo.pt page replay iconhell.com (horizon-arquivo-iconhell-com-f8628883fa63)
Kind
wayback-page-cdx
Type
prospect-queue-arquivo-expansion
Category
icons / geek / geek buddy icons aim buddy icons
Title
Geek Buddy Icons - AIM Buddy Icons
Observed
August 19, 2026 at 21:42 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed archived prospect; preserve capture provenance and review rights before redistribution.
Original: http://iconhell.com/i/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Download: https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091015022238id_/http://iconhell.com/i/iconhell_nanto_yahooicon01.gif Page: https://arquivo.pt/icon/Geek/Yahoo_Messenger.html?id=44426