Pixel art character in red shirt and brown pants holding a candle, standing on a white platform with text labels changing above.

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Pixel art character in red shirt and brown pants holding a candle, standing on a white platform with text labels changing above.

Pixel art character in red shirt and brown pants holding a candle, standing on a white platform with text labels changing above. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Bal…

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Animation

  • candle flame flickers

Animation Summary

  • Character holds candle with flickering flame; text above changes between 'Thanks', 'Giving', and 'Giving Thanks' across observations.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text above
  • candle left
  • platform below

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with white face, black eyes, red shirt, brown pants, and brown shoes holds a yellow candle with orange flame. Character stands on white platform with gray background. Text above changes between 'Thanks', 'Giving', and 'Giving Thanks' across observations. Candle flame flickers in some frames. Character's left hand holds candle, right hand holds brown object. Platform has white border. Text is gray, sans-serif. Character's expression is neutral. Background is solid gray. Character's pose is static except for candle flame animation.

Description

  • Pixel art character in red shirt and brown pants holding a candle, standing on a white platform with text labels changing above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation category (broad): hotdude729
  • observation alt-text (broad): 38846
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 38846
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (broad): 38846
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 38846
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • hotdude729
  • ballericons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candle flame flickering character
  • text changes thanks giving giving thanks
  • pixel art character red shirt brown pants
  • gray background white platform text
  • candle yellow orange flame
  • character holding brown object
  • text sans-serif gray
  • character neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention 'ballericons' and 'hotdude729' but no visual evidence supports these claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2002, 2007
  • provenance source-name: Prospect Wayback page replay www.geocities.com/hotdude729
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Visible Text

  • Thanks
  • Giving
  • Giving Thanks

Wordwall

  • character holds candle
  • candle flame flickers
  • text changes
  • red shirt
  • brown pants
  • gray background
  • white platform
  • neutral expression
  • gray text
  • sans-serif font
  • brown object
  • yellow candle
  • orange flame
  • character standing
  • platform border
  • text: Thanks
  • text: Giving
  • text: Giving Thanks
  • character face white
  • character eyes black
  • character shoes brown
  • character hands brown
  • character body red
  • character pants brown
  • character candle yellow
  • character flame orange
  • character platform white
  • character background gray
  • character text gray
  • character font sans-serif
  • character pose static
  • character animation candle

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
38846
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:39 UTC

Prospect Wayback page replay www.geocities.com/hotdude729

Source title
38846
Category
hotdude729
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/04/04e55445cef24eaafb0cfe80a3fd1da4571f7a0ee058dfab0df5839c35565a7b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:39 UTC
Archive ID
04e55445cef24eaa
SHA-256
04e55445cef24eaafb0cfe80a3fd1da4571f7a0ee058dfab0df5839c35565a7b
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000025

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000025falseviolence0.000013falseself-harm0.000011falseviolence/graphic0.000006falseillicit0.000004falseharassment0.000003falseself-harm/intent0.000003falsehate0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023253

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.023253falseself-harm0.004814falseviolence/graphic0.001586falseself-harm/intent0.000246falseself-harm/instructions0.000217falsesexual0.000141falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097567

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910331onnx/unsafe0.097567onnx/nsfw0.060374onnx/nsfl0.037193
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art character in red shirt and brown pants holding a candle, standing on a white platform with text labels changing above.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:16 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,974 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 949

Review tags

  • flickering (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • platform (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • candle (subject, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • flickering

Animation

  • candle flame flickers

Animation Summary

  • Character holds candle with flickering flame; text above changes between 'Thanks', 'Giving', and 'Giving Thanks' across observations.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • character centered
  • text above
  • candle left
  • platform below

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixel art character in red shirt and brown pants holding a candle, standing on a white platform with text labels changing above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation category (broad): hotdude729
  • observation alt-text (broad): 38846
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 38846
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (broad): 38846
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 38846
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • hotdude729
  • ballericons

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • text changes thanks giving giving thanks
  • pixel art character red shirt brown pants
  • gray background white platform text
  • candle yellow orange flame
  • character holding brown object
  • text sans-serif gray
  • character neutral expression

Objects

  • candle
  • platform
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention 'ballericons' and 'hotdude729' but no visual evidence supports these claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2002, 2007
  • provenance source-name: Prospect Wayback page replay www.geocities.com/hotdude729
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character
  • candle

Visible Text

  • Thanks
  • Giving
  • Giving Thanks

Wordwall

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  • brown pants
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  • character platform white
  • character background gray
  • character text gray
  • character font sans-serif
  • character pose static
  • character animation candle
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Full source records (2)

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
38846
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:39 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