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Pixelated character in black hat and red striped shirt holding a fiery object, with 'Freddy Buddy' text below on gray background.

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Pixelated character in black hat and red striped shirt holding a fiery object, with 'Freddy Buddy' text below on gray background.

Pixelated character in black hat and red striped shirt holding a fiery object, with 'Freddy Buddy' text below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has white face, black top hat, red-and-black checkered sleeves, horizontal red stripes on torso. Right arm extends forward holding orange-yellow glowing object with white smoke trails. Text: 'Freddy' in large pixelated font (black outline, white fill) underlined; 'Buddy' below it in same style. No visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated character in black hat and red striped shirt holding a fiery object, with 'Freddy Buddy' text below on gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Freddy Krueger

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • AOL IM

Named Entities

  • Freddy Krueger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art freddy buddy
  • glowing object smoke trails
  • red striped shirt black hat
  • gray background freddy buddy text

Visible Text

  • Freddy
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Freddy Krueger

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • white face
  • black top hat
  • red striped shirt
  • orange-yellow glowing object
  • white smoke trails
  • Freddy text
  • Buddy text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
498
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:18 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/0989417e856b4178dd56fc39c6fc3e494514095453e129dd0489137d72f6f098.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Archive ID
0989417e856b4178
SHA-256
0989417e856b4178dd56fc39c6fc3e494514095453e129dd0489137d72f6f098
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 06:22 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.182866

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.108117

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character in black hat and red striped shirt holding a fiery object, with 'Freddy Buddy' text below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:09 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,474 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 622

Review tags

  • emitting (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • smoke trails (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • emitting

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has white face, black top hat, red-and-black checkered sleeves, horizontal red stripes on torso. Right arm extends forward holding orange-yellow glowing object with white smoke trails. Text: 'Freddy' in large pixelated font (black outline, white fill) underlined; 'Buddy' below it in same style. No visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated character in black hat and red striped shirt holding a fiery object, with 'Freddy Buddy' text below on gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Freddy Krueger

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • AOL IM

Named Entities

  • Freddy Krueger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art freddy buddy
  • glowing object smoke trails
  • red striped shirt black hat
  • gray background freddy buddy text

Objects

  • glowing object
  • smoke trails

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Freddy
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Freddy Krueger

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • white face
  • black top hat
  • red striped shirt
  • orange-yellow glowing object
  • white smoke trails
  • Freddy text
  • Buddy text
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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
498
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:18 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/498.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010905065338id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/498.gif