Static pixel art icon featuring two distinct cartoon figures above bold text reading "AIM vs. MSN" on a gray background.

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Static pixel art icon featuring two distinct cartoon figures above bold text reading "AIM vs. MSN" on a gray background.

Static pixel art icon featuring two distinct cartoon figures above bold text reading "AIM vs. MSN" on a gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GI…

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About this icon

Animation

  • static/no motion

Animation Summary

  • Static single-frame image showing two cartoon figures above text with no visible animation changes.

Composition

  • horizontal layout
  • two figures above text
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with 256x256 resolution showing two cartoon-style figures positioned horizontally at the top against a solid light gray background. On the left, a yellow stick figure with black outline has white circular head and outstretched arms in running pose; its body is simple rectangular shape with rounded edges. On the right, a teal-colored sphere rests on matching teal base with pixelated gradient shading suggesting 3D form. Below both figures, bold blocky text reads "AIM vs. MSN" using black pixels with white outline and slight anti-aliasing. The entire composition uses limited color palette typical of early web graphics. No visible animation or motion effects present; all elements are static. Text is clearly legible without distortion. Figures appear to be mascot representations for competing instant messaging services.

Description

  • Static pixel art icon featuring two distinct cartoon figures above bold text reading "AIM vs. MSN" on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"AIM mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.85,"evidence":"yellow stick figure with running pose matches AIM's early branding"}
  • {"name":"MSN mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.75,"evidence":"teal sphere on base resembles MSN Messenger's visual identity elements"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • aimvsmsn text matches visible "AIM vs. MSN" text
  • tech category aligns with instant messaging services reference

Named Entities

  • AIM
  • MSN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aim vs msn mascot icon
  • yellow stick figure teal sphere im comparison
  • 256x256 aimmsn pixel art

Objects

  • text block

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet grid not visible in icon content
  • sampled frame count 1 from single static image

Safety Notes

  • No explicit content; contains historical tech branding reference

Source Metadata Interpretation

wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs suggests historical archive context; alt: aimvsmsn indicates intended comparison theme; category: icns / tech / aimvsn implies technical/brand rivalry context

Visible Text

  • AIM vs. MSN

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
  • MSN Messenger

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • black outlined head
  • white circular face
  • outstretched arms running pose
  • teal sphere
  • teal base
  • pixelated gradient shading
  • blocky text
  • AIM vs. MSN text
  • gray background
  • 256x256 resolution
  • static pixel art
  • simple mascot design
  • running motion implied
  • text with white outline
  • black and white text contrast
  • yellow body color
  • teal color scheme
  • no animation frames
  • solid gray backdrop

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GIF Captures

Source title
aimvsmsn
Category
icns / tech / aimvsmsn
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:41 UTC

Wayback Juice2000 AIM Icons with Legacy MIME Classification

Source title
juice2000_com_icon29
Category
icon
Era
2000 Early AIM Buddy-Icon Culture
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 18:24 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
974 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a6/a637ac31e9e70c9df8cc2fd9b0775df2d67acdd43a1eda33a5b6dd3c414387a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
Archive ID
a637ac31e9e70c9d
SHA-256
a637ac31e9e70c9df8cc2fd9b0775df2d67acdd43a1eda33a5b6dd3c414387a3
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079662

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920338onnx/unsafe0.079662onnx/nsfw0.045534onnx/nsfl0.034128
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 11:34 UTC
Run
21
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

Static pixel art icon featuring two distinct cartoon figures above bold text reading "AIM vs. MSN" on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 11:34 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
8,105 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,766, response 1,044

Review tags

  • static icon (animation, 1.00)
  • aim vs msn text (text, 1.00)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • gray background (color, 0.90)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.90)
  • blocky text (text, 0.90)
  • running pose (action, 0.85)
  • mascot design (style, 0.85)
  • teal sphere figure (subject, 0.85)

Actions

  • running pose
  • resting on base

Animation

  • static/no motion

Animation Summary

  • Static single-frame image showing two cartoon figures above text with no visible animation changes.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • teal
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal layout
  • two figures above text
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with 256x256 resolution showing two cartoon-style figures positioned horizontally at the top against a solid light gray background. On the left, a yellow stick figure with black outline has white circular head and outstretched arms in running pose; its body is simple rectangular shape with rounded edges. On the right, a teal-colored sphere rests on matching teal base with pixelated gradient shading suggesting 3D form. Below both figures, bold blocky text reads "AIM vs. MSN" using black pixels with white outline and slight anti-aliasing. The entire composition uses limited color palette typical of early web graphics. No visible animation or motion effects present; all elements are static. Text is clearly legible without distortion. Figures appear to be mascot representations for competing instant messaging services.

Description

  • Static pixel art icon featuring two distinct cartoon figures above bold text reading "AIM vs. MSN" on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"AIM mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.85,"evidence":"yellow stick figure with running pose matches AIM's early branding"}
  • {"name":"MSN mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.75,"evidence":"teal sphere on base resembles MSN Messenger's visual identity elements"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • aimvsmsn text matches visible "AIM vs. MSN" text
  • tech category aligns with instant messaging services reference

Mood

  • playful
  • competitive

Named Entities

  • AIM
  • MSN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aim vs msn mascot icon
  • yellow stick figure teal sphere im comparison
  • 256x256 aimmsn pixel art

Objects

  • text block
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet grid not visible in icon content
  • sampled frame count 1 from single static image

Safety Notes

  • No explicit content; contains historical tech branding reference

Source Metadata Interpretation

wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs suggests historical archive context; alt: aimvsmsn indicates intended comparison theme; category: icns / tech / aimvsn implies technical/brand rivalry context

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon mascot
  • blocky text style

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure
  • teal sphere figure

Visible Text

  • AIM vs. MSN

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
  • MSN Messenger

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • black outlined head
  • white circular face
  • outstretched arms running pose
  • teal sphere
  • teal base
  • pixelated gradient shading
  • blocky text
  • AIM vs. MSN text
  • gray background
  • 256x256 resolution
  • static pixel art
  • simple mascot design
  • running motion implied
  • text with white outline
  • black and white text contrast
  • yellow body color
  • teal color scheme
  • no animation frames
  • solid gray backdrop
Raw JSON
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Full source records (2)

Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GIF Captures (wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
icns / tech / aimvsmsn
Alt
aimvsmsn
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:41 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal with category-path icon folders

Wayback Juice2000 AIM Icons with Legacy MIME Classification (wayback-juice2000-aim-icons-misclassified-mime)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2000 Early AIM Buddy-Icon Culture
Type
Wayback direct asset recovery from a historically cited AIM icon path with malformed archived MIME metadata
Category
icon
Alt
juice2000_com_icon29
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 18:24 UTC
Rights
historical web graphics; research/reference only by default
Slice
early custom AIM/AOL-person-style buddy icons circulated before the large commercial icon portals