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Pixelated character with white head and blue torso fades out then returns in sequence, text below reads 'Fade Away' repeatedly.

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Pixelated character with white head and blue torso fades out then returns in sequence, text below reads 'Fade Away' repeatedly.

Pixelated character with white head and blue torso fades out then returns in sequence, text below reads 'Fade Away' repeatedly. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ball…

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Action

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Animation

  • character fades to scattered pixels then reassembles into full form

Animation Summary

  • Character fades to scattered pixels then reassembles into full form , text 'Fade Away' remains constant below each frame

Composition

  • top of four figures
  • middle showing fading process
  • bottom single figure with text below

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated figures appear at top row: white heads, solid blue torsos. Below them, repeated text 'Fade Away' spans the width. Second row shows fading effect: first figure dissolves into scattered pixels while others remain static; third and fourth rows show partial reassembly of the character with remaining pixels gradually coalescing back to full form. Final frame at bottom displays single complete figure above 'Fade Away' text. All elements on solid gray background, 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated character with white head and blue torso fades out then returns in sequence, text below reads 'Fade Away' repeatedly.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 39543
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 39543
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 39543

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character fade away
  • white head blue torso gray background
  • 8-bit pixel art fading animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character fades to scattered pixels then reassembles into full form across multiple frames, text 'Fade Away' remains constant below each frame.
  • quarantined composition: middle rows showing fading process
  • quarantined composition: top row of four figures

Visible Text

  • Fade Away

Wordwall

  • white head
  • blue torso
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • scattered pixels
  • reassembly

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
39543
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/03/035c65ec9db400ace61d16dae063a3a99a5718b5f4ce3d1706ac0136e23356cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Archive ID
035c65ec9db400ac
SHA-256
035c65ec9db400ace61d16dae063a3a99a5718b5f4ce3d1706ac0136e23356cb
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 08:22 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000486

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000486falseself-harm0.000458falsesexual0.000084falseviolence/graphic0.000021falseharassment0.000014falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseillicit0.000005falseharassment/threatening0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falsehate0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010112

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010112falseself-harm0.004843falseself-harm/intent0.000285falseself-harm/instructions0.000226falsesexual0.000063falseviolence/graphic0.000022falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:11 UTC
Run
104
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096013

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914360onnx/unsafe0.096013onnx/nsfw0.057397onnx/nsfl0.038615
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Pixelated character with white head and blue torso fades out then returns in sequence, text below reads 'Fade Away' repeatedly.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,934 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 683

Review tags

  • fades out (action, 0.80)
  • reassembles from pixels (action, 0.80)
  • scatters into pixels (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • blue torso figure (subject, 0.80)
  • white head figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • fades out
  • scatters into pixels
  • reassembles from pixels

Animation

  • character fades to scattered pixels then reassembles into full form

Animation Summary

  • Character fades to scattered pixels then reassembles into full form , text 'Fade Away' remains constant below each frame

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • top of four figures
  • middle showing fading process
  • bottom single figure with text below

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated figures appear at top row: white heads, solid blue torsos. Below them, repeated text 'Fade Away' spans the width. Second row shows fading effect: first figure dissolves into scattered pixels while others remain static; third and fourth rows show partial reassembly of the character with remaining pixels gradually coalescing back to full form. Final frame at bottom displays single complete figure above 'Fade Away' text. All elements on solid gray background, 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated character with white head and blue torso fades out then returns in sequence, text below reads 'Fade Away' repeatedly.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 39543
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 39543
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 39543

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character fade away
  • white head blue torso gray background
  • 8-bit pixel art fading animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character fades to scattered pixels then reassembles into full form across multiple frames, text 'Fade Away' remains constant below each frame.
  • quarantined composition: middle rows showing fading process
  • quarantined composition: top row of four figures

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • white head figure
  • blue torso figure

Visible Text

  • Fade Away

Wordwall

  • white head
  • blue torso
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • scattered pixels
  • reassembly
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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
39543
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:41 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://ballericons.com/icon/39543.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011210103146id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/39543.gif