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Pixel art character with purple hat and pink accents holding a flag, paired with text phrases below.

Pixel art character with purple hat and pink accents holding a flag, paired with text phrases below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • flag appears and disappears

Animation Summary

  • Character holds green flag in top frames; flag disappears in bottom frames

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • text below

Dense Caption

Six pixel art frames arranged in two rows on gray background. Top row: three identical frames show character with purple hat, pink accents, black eyes, yellow hair, brown shorts, holding green flag. Bottom row: three frames show same character without flag. Text below top row reads "Keep your gimp hand"; text below bottom row reads "Strong". Character has consistent pose across frames with flag presence as only change.

Description

  • Pixel art character with purple hat and pink accents holding a flag, paired with text phrases below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gimp hand strong
  • purple hat yellow hair
  • flag presence change
  • pixel art text
  • gray background
  • two text
  • keep your gimp hand
  • strong

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character holds green flag in top row frames; flag disappears in bottom row frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined wordwall: six frames
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows text

Visible Text

  • Keep your gimp hand
  • Strong

Wordwall

  • purple hat
  • pink accents
  • black eyes
  • yellow hair
  • brown shorts
  • green flag
  • gray background
  • Keep your gimp hand
  • Strong
  • pixel art
  • two
  • text below
  • flag presence change

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
11451
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:40 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/01/011828a2e824adc9f35a88efc60782d4f32b421c5b82082ba7886914ae26a674.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 01:40 UTC
Archive ID
011828a2e824adc9
SHA-256
011828a2e824adc9f35a88efc60782d4f32b421c5b82082ba7886914ae26a674
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 05:08 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.005722

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.005722falseviolence0.000531falseself-harm0.000472falseself-harm/intent0.000230falseself-harm/instructions0.000213falsehate0.000112falsesexual0.000076falseharassment/threatening0.000022falseviolence/graphic0.000016falseillicit0.000016falseillicit/violent0.000003falsehate/threatening0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010117

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010117falseself-harm0.004699falsesexual0.000716falseself-harm/intent0.000299falseself-harm/instructions0.000224falseviolence/graphic0.000032falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 04:02 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101421

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918454onnx/unsafe0.101421onnx/nsfw0.064295onnx/nsfl0.037127
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art character with purple hat and pink accents holding a flag, paired with text phrases below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:04 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,813 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,130, response 712

Review tags

  • flag presence change (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • green flag (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • flag presence change

Animation

  • flag appears and disappears

Animation Summary

  • Character holds green flag in top frames; flag disappears in bottom frames

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • black
  • yellow
  • brown
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • text below

Dense Caption

Six pixel art frames arranged in two rows on gray background. Top row: three identical frames show character with purple hat, pink accents, black eyes, yellow hair, brown shorts, holding green flag. Bottom row: three frames show same character without flag. Text below top row reads "Keep your gimp hand"; text below bottom row reads "Strong". Character has consistent pose across frames with flag presence as only change.

Description

  • Pixel art character with purple hat and pink accents holding a flag, paired with text phrases below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gimp hand strong
  • purple hat yellow hair
  • flag presence change
  • pixel art text
  • gray background
  • two text
  • keep your gimp hand
  • strong

Objects

  • green flag

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character holds green flag in top row frames; flag disappears in bottom row frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined wordwall: six frames
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows text

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Keep your gimp hand
  • Strong

Wordwall

  • purple hat
  • pink accents
  • black eyes
  • yellow hair
  • brown shorts
  • green flag
  • gray background
  • Keep your gimp hand
  • Strong
  • pixel art
  • two
  • text below
  • flag presence change
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Full source records (1)

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
11451
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:40 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

Original: http://www.ballericons.com/icon/11451.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613134523id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/11451.gif