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Pixel art character in blue and black suit holding black pistol, standing with arms extended against gray background, text 'Dark Buddy' below.

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Pixel art character in blue and black suit holding black pistol, standing with arms extended against gray background, text 'Dark Buddy' below.

Pixel art character in blue and black suit holding black pistol, standing with arms extended against gray background, text 'Dark Buddy' below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Waybac…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static pixel art image with character in full-body pose holding pistol and text below.

Composition

  • full-body
  • centered character
  • text below

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with brown hair, blue eyes, and pink mouth. Wearing blue and black full-body suit with white accents on legs. Left hand holds black pistol, right arm extended horizontally. Gray background. Text 'Dark Buddy' in white block letters with black outline below character. Character stands in full-body pose with arms outstretched. No visible animation. Pixel art style with limited color palette. Character has no visible facial hair. Background is solid gray with no additional elements. Text is positioned directly beneath the character's feet. Character's left leg is slightly forward. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right.

Description

Pixel art character in blue and black suit holding black pistol, standing with arms extended against gray background, text 'Dark Buddy' below.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

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

  • dark buddy pixel art
  • blue and black suit pistol
  • brown hair blue eyes pink mouth
  • gray background white text
  • character holding pistol standing
  • pixel art character blue suit
  • full-body pose arms extended
  • text below character standing

Visible Text

  • Dark Buddy

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • pink mouth
  • blue and black suit
  • white accents
  • black pistol
  • gray background
  • white text
  • black outline
  • full-body pose
  • arms extended
  • pixel art
  • solid background
  • text below character
  • character standing
  • no facial hair
  • right leg forward
  • left leg back
  • right arm extended
  • left arm extended
  • right hand holding pistol
  • left hand empty

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
12957
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:16 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
545 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/095ed368a7e13ec21ba476cef1a1db1cf1d126311c67610a2ebc06954a535f2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 02:16 UTC
Archive ID
095ed368a7e13ec2
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 23:44 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010203

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art character in blue and black suit holding black pistol, standing with arms extended against gray background, text 'Dark Buddy' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:26 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,913 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 1,081

Review tags

  • extending arms (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pistol (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • standing
  • extending arms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static pixel art image with character in full-body pose holding pistol and text below.

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • full-body
  • centered character
  • text below

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with brown hair, blue eyes, and pink mouth. Wearing blue and black full-body suit with white accents on legs. Left hand holds black pistol, right arm extended horizontally. Gray background. Text 'Dark Buddy' in white block letters with black outline below character. Character stands in full-body pose with arms outstretched. No visible animation. Pixel art style with limited color palette. Character has no visible facial hair. Background is solid gray with no additional elements. Text is positioned directly beneath the character's feet. Character's left leg is slightly forward. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right. Character's left arm is extended horizontally to the left. Character's right hand is holding a black pistol. Character's left hand is empty. Character's right leg is slightly forward. Character's left leg is slightly back. Character's right arm is extended horizontally to the right.

Description

Pixel art character in blue and black suit holding black pistol, standing with arms extended against gray background, text 'Dark Buddy' below.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • provenance era: 2007
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  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • 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

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  • blue and black suit pistol
  • brown hair blue eyes pink mouth
  • gray background white text
  • character holding pistol standing
  • pixel art character blue suit
  • full-body pose arms extended
  • text below character standing

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  • Dark Buddy

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  • arms extended
  • pixel art
  • solid background
  • text below character
  • character standing
  • no facial hair
  • right leg forward
  • left leg back
  • right arm extended
  • left arm extended
  • right hand holding pistol
  • left hand empty
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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
12957
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:16 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/12957.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010611192318id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/12957.gif