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Pixelated character in dark armor holding a glowing staff with multicolored accents, standing on a circular base beneath stylized text.

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Pixelated character in dark armor holding a glowing staff with multicolored accents, standing on a circular base beneath stylized text.

Pixelated character in dark armor holding a glowing staff with multicolored accents, standing on a circular base beneath stylized text. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Aaron's Autho…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • text above character
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with a dark, rounded helmet and armor. The character holds a staff with a purple tip and multicolored segments (green, yellow, red). The character stands on a circular gray base. Above the character, the text "StarCraft" is rendered in pixelated letters with black and gray tones. The background is plain white. The character's pose is static with the staff raised. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, gray, purple, green, yellow, and red.

Description

  • Pixelated character in dark armor holding a glowing staff with multicolored accents, standing on a circular base beneath stylized text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: animated-gif
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-type: live GeoCities mirror of a creator-authored AIM gallery

Metadata Only Entities

  • Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: homemade
  • provenance topic-coverage: homemade animation
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character starcraft
  • dark armor staff multicolored
  • circular base starcraft text
  • 8-bit starcraft character
  • glowing staff pixel art
  • starcraft text white background
  • character holding staff
  • multicolored staff accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance source-name: Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2005
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated-gif
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: first-person collection of homemade animated AIM icons created in Paint and assembled with period freeware
  • provenance collection-attribute: homemade
  • provenance topic-coverage: homemade animation
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-type: live GeoCities mirror of a creator-authored AIM gallery
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Homemade AIM Animation

Visible Text

  • StarCraft

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  • pixelated character
  • dark armor
  • glowing staff
  • multicolored accents
  • circular base
  • StarCraft text
  • white background
  • static pose
  • limited color palette
  • black gray purple green yellow red

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons

Source title
Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons
Category
first-person collection of homemade animated AIM icons created in Paint and assembled with period freeware
Era
Mid-2000s Homemade AIM Animation
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 08:18 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b5a08b2c36f0afc84c092afe123059af6eac785c2da8e2c31777ccef9cae002.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 08:18 UTC
Archive ID
3b5a08b2c36f0afc
SHA-256
3b5a08b2c36f0afc84c092afe123059af6eac785c2da8e2c31777ccef9cae002
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
1281
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
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Overall label
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Pixelated character in dark armor holding a glowing staff with multicolored accents, standing on a circular base beneath stylized text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 00:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,242 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,063, response 796

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • circular base (object, 0.80)
  • staff (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • purple
  • green
  • yellow
  • red

Composition

  • character centered
  • text above character
  • white background

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated character in dark armor holding a glowing staff with multicolored accents, standing on a circular base beneath stylized text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: animated-gif
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-type: live GeoCities mirror of a creator-authored AIM gallery

Metadata Only Entities

  • Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: homemade
  • provenance topic-coverage: homemade animation
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character starcraft
  • dark armor staff multicolored
  • circular base starcraft text
  • 8-bit starcraft character
  • glowing staff pixel art
  • starcraft text white background
  • character holding staff
  • multicolored staff accents

Objects

  • staff
  • circular base

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-type: live GeoCities mirror of a creator-authored AIM gallery
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  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • StarCraft

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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:05 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
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Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons (geocities-ws-norcarba-authored-aim-icons)
Kind
image-list
Era
Mid-2000s Homemade AIM Animation
Type
live GeoCities mirror of a creator-authored AIM gallery
Category
first-person collection of homemade animated AIM icons created in Paint and assembled with period freeware
Title
Aaron's Authored Animated AIM Buddy Icons
Alt
mstill
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 08:18 UTC
Rights
creator-authored personal-web animation; research/reference only by default
Slice
first-person collection of homemade animated AIM icons created in Paint and assembled with period freeware
Original: https://www.geocities.ws/norcarba/mstill.gif Download: https://www.geocities.ws/norcarba/mstill.gif