Four 50x50 pixel AIM buddy icons arranged in a contact sheet, each featuring black circular backgrounds with white text or symbols and gray background transparency.

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Four 50x50 pixel AIM buddy icons arranged in a contact sheet, each featuring black circular backgrounds with white text or symbols and gray background transparency.

Four 50x50 pixel AIM buddy icons arranged in a contact sheet, each featuring black circular backgrounds with white text or symbols and gray background transparency. Animated 50×50…

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Animation

  • frame 0: number 8
  • frame 1: YES text
  • frame 2: NO text
  • frame 3: question mark symbol

Animation Summary

  • Four-frame animation cycling through black circular icons with white symbols (number 8, YES, NO, question mark) on transparent background

Composition

  • 2x2 grid layout
  • icon centered in frame
  • text positioned above and below icons

Dense Caption

The image displays four distinct animated frames of an AIM buddy icon arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each frame features a solid black circular shape on a transparent gray background, containing white text or symbols. The top-left frame shows the number '8' inside the circle with 'RightClick' above and 'To Stop RightClick' below. The top-right frame displays 'YES' within the circle with identical surrounding text. The bottom-left frame contains 'NO' in the circle with 'To Stop' text beneath it. The bottom-right frame presents a question mark '?' inside the circle with 'To Stop' text below. All frames use pixelated sans-serif fonts, and the icons maintain consistent size and layout across all four sampled frames. The animation appears to cycle through these four states sequentially as indicated by their arrangement in the contact sheet.

Description

Four 50x50 pixel AIM buddy icons arranged in a contact sheet, each featuring black circular backgrounds with white text or symbols and gray background transparency.

Identity Hypotheses

  • 8ball | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible number 8 symbol and 'To Stop RightClick' text referencing classic 8-ball mechanics

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention 'games' category but no game elements visible in icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • guesticons collection
  • myoldicons original icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • the number 8 symbol supports the '8ball' reference
  • the four-frame sequence matches an animation concept

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 8ball icon
  • rightclick stop animation
  • yes no question mark icons
  • aol instant messenger 8ball

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 4 sampled frames arranged left-to-right top-to-bottom
  • gray background transparency for icon display
  • 512x512 review image size
  • source frame count 4 matches sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit text and symbols only
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest '8ball' reference and guesticons/myoldicons collections
  • hints indicate this is part of a larger animated collection with multiple frames

Visible Text

  • RightClick
  • YES
  • To Stop
  • NO
  • ?
  • 8

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon collection
  • 8ball reference (via number 8 symbol)

Wordwall

  • black circular icon
  • white number 8
  • YES text
  • NO text
  • question mark symbol
  • pixelated font
  • gray background transparency
  • RightClick text
  • To Stop text
  • 4-frame animation
  • contact sheet layout
  • solid black circle
  • white symbols on black
  • text above and below icon
  • 50x50 pixel size
  • animated sequence
  • frame-to-frame changes
  • static frames
  • buddy icon design
  • AOL Instant Messenger icon
  • 8ball reference
  • guesticons collection
  • myoldicons original icons

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Guest Icons GIF Captures

Source title
8ball
Category
guesticons / guest icons 80 / 8ball
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:40 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / games / assorted games
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:58 UTC

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
14342
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:14 UTC

Prospect Wayback expansion www.geocities.com/hotdude729

Source title
14342
Category
hotdude729
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41e9ca8a6fcb7ef1c0d34bcc7c953ba1f7fafa8e14a31dc20991314bee49a22b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:08 UTC
Archive ID
41e9ca8a6fcb7ef1
SHA-256
41e9ca8a6fcb7ef1c0d34bcc7c953ba1f7fafa8e14a31dc20991314bee49a22b
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 10:13 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087415

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917449onnx/unsafe0.087415onnx/nsfw0.050568onnx/nsfl0.036847
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 20:36 UTC
Run
28
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four 50x50 pixel AIM buddy icons arranged in a contact sheet, each featuring black circular backgrounds with white text or symbols and gray background transparency.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 20:36 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
11,678 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,026, response 1,158

Review tags

  • black circular shape (object, 0.95)
  • 8ball reference (subject, 0.95)
  • rightclick stop text (text, 0.95)
  • aol instant messenger icon (platform, 0.90)
  • pixelated icon (style, 0.90)
  • white text symbols (text, 0.90)
  • 4 frame animation (animation, 0.85)
  • guesticons collection (source, 0.70)
  • myoldicons original icons (source, 0.65)

Animation

  • frame 0: number 8
  • frame 1: YES text
  • frame 2: NO text
  • frame 3: question mark symbol

Animation Summary

  • Four-frame animation cycling through black circular icons with white symbols (number 8, YES, NO, question mark) on transparent background

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • 2x2 grid layout
  • icon centered in frame
  • text positioned above and below icons

Dense Caption

The image displays four distinct animated frames of an AIM buddy icon arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each frame features a solid black circular shape on a transparent gray background, containing white text or symbols. The top-left frame shows the number '8' inside the circle with 'RightClick' above and 'To Stop RightClick' below. The top-right frame displays 'YES' within the circle with identical surrounding text. The bottom-left frame contains 'NO' in the circle with 'To Stop' text beneath it. The bottom-right frame presents a question mark '?' inside the circle with 'To Stop' text below. All frames use pixelated sans-serif fonts, and the icons maintain consistent size and layout across all four sampled frames. The animation appears to cycle through these four states sequentially as indicated by their arrangement in the contact sheet.

Description

Four 50x50 pixel AIM buddy icons arranged in a contact sheet, each featuring black circular backgrounds with white text or symbols and gray background transparency.

Identity Hypotheses

  • 8ball | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible number 8 symbol and 'To Stop RightClick' text referencing classic 8-ball mechanics

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention 'games' category but no game elements visible in icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • guesticons collection
  • myoldicons original icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • the number 8 symbol supports the '8ball' reference
  • the four-frame sequence matches an animation concept

Mood

  • neutral
  • functional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 8ball icon
  • rightclick stop animation
  • yes no question mark icons
  • aol instant messenger 8ball

Objects

  • number 8 symbol
  • YES text
  • NO text
  • question mark symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 4 sampled frames arranged left-to-right top-to-bottom
  • gray background transparency for icon display
  • 512x512 review image size
  • source frame count 4 matches sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit text and symbols only
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest '8ball' reference and guesticons/myoldicons collections
  • hints indicate this is part of a larger animated collection with multiple frames

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • simplified icon design

Subjects

  • black circular shapes
  • text symbols

Visible Text

  • RightClick
  • YES
  • To Stop
  • NO
  • ?
  • 8

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon collection
  • 8ball reference (via number 8 symbol)

Wordwall

  • black circular icon
  • white number 8
  • YES text
  • NO text
  • question mark symbol
  • pixelated font
  • gray background transparency
  • RightClick text
  • To Stop text
  • 4-frame animation
  • contact sheet layout
  • solid black circle
  • white symbols on black
  • text above and below icon
  • 50x50 pixel size
  • animated sequence
  • frame-to-frame changes
  • static frames
  • buddy icon design
  • AOL Instant Messenger icon
  • 8ball reference
  • guesticons collection
  • myoldicons original icons
Raw JSON
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Full source records (4)

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Guest Icons GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-guesticons-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical user-submitted portal crawl
Category
guesticons / guest icons 80 / 8ball
Alt
8ball
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
OriginalIcons guest-icon folders with uploader/group names and user-submitted AIM identity material

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / games / assorted games
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1098314639_1771804103.gif | imaloserinlove92 lexibox | animated | myoldicons id 205995
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:58 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata

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
14342
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:14 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