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Pixel art character with brown hair, black antennae, yellow shoulder accents, holding a red ladybug, standing above "Wired Buddy" text on gray background.

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Pixel art character with brown hair, black antennae, yellow shoulder accents, holding a red ladybug, standing above "Wired Buddy" text on gray background.

Pixel art character with brown hair, black antennae, yellow shoulder accents, holding a red ladybug, standing above "Wired Buddy" text on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on solid gray background. Central figure has brown hair with yellow highlights, black antennae-like appendages, white face with black eyes, yellow shoulder accents, and white torso. Figure holds red ladybug with black spots and white eyes. Below figure, text reads "Wired" in black and white pixelated font, with "Buddy" directly beneath it in same style. All elements are rendered in 8-bit style with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixel art character with brown hair, black antennae, yellow shoulder accents, holding a red ladybug, standing above "Wired Buddy" text on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • 2000s

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair ladybug pixel art
  • ladybug holding character
  • Wired Buddy text
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • gray background character
  • antennae ladybug
  • yellow shoulder accents
  • red ladybug white eyes

Visible Text

  • Wired
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black antennae
  • yellow shoulder accents
  • red ladybug
  • white torso
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • text "Wired"
  • text "Buddy"

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
14301
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:12 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/08/087377e9d1e54a241c991610a142a8864ba7674742797e3533a01fe2565b780a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:12 UTC
Archive ID
087377e9d1e54a24
SHA-256
087377e9d1e54a241c991610a142a8864ba7674742797e3533a01fe2565b780a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 13:01 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016191

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.016191falseself-harm0.004678falseself-harm/intent0.000234falsesexual0.000103falseviolence/graphic0.000051falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086369

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art character with brown hair, black antennae, yellow shoulder accents, holding a red ladybug, standing above "Wired Buddy" text on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:44 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,706 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,058, response 688

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)
  • ladybug (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on solid gray background. Central figure has brown hair with yellow highlights, black antennae-like appendages, white face with black eyes, yellow shoulder accents, and white torso. Figure holds red ladybug with black spots and white eyes. Below figure, text reads "Wired" in black and white pixelated font, with "Buddy" directly beneath it in same style. All elements are rendered in 8-bit style with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixel art character with brown hair, black antennae, yellow shoulder accents, holding a red ladybug, standing above "Wired Buddy" text on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • 2000s

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair ladybug pixel art
  • ladybug holding character
  • Wired Buddy text
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • gray background character
  • antennae ladybug
  • yellow shoulder accents
  • red ladybug white eyes

Objects

  • ladybug

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character
  • ladybug

Visible Text

  • Wired
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black antennae
  • yellow shoulder accents
  • red ladybug
  • white torso
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • text "Wired"
  • text "Buddy"
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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
14301
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:12 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/14301.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612074501id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/14301.gif