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Pixelated character with yellow shirt and green plant sprouting from head, standing against gray background beneath "SpudBuddy" text.

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Pixelated character with yellow shirt and green plant sprouting from head, standing against gray background beneath "SpudBuddy" text.

Pixelated character with yellow shirt and green plant sprouting from head, standing against gray background beneath "SpudBuddy" text. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Balleri…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered above text
  • text spans full width below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has brown skin tone, black eyes, multicolored facial details (red, blue, purple), yellow short-sleeve shirt, outstretched arms with multicolored hands. Green plant sprouts from top of head—two leaves and stem visible. Below character: "SpudBuddy" text in bold pixelated font; each letter has black outline and white fill. No animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with yellow shirt and green plant sprouting from head, standing against gray background beneath "SpudBuddy" text.

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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spudbuddy pixel art
  • yellow shirt character plant sprout
  • gray background spudbuddy text
  • pixelated character with green sprout

Visible Text

  • SpudBuddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpudBuddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art style
  • brown skin tone
  • black eyes
  • multicolored facial details
  • yellow shirt
  • outstretched arms
  • multicolored hands
  • green plant sprout
  • two leaves on stem
  • "SpudBuddy" text
  • bold pixelated font
  • black outline
  • white fill

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
2522
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 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/0e/0ea774bff5493732d0b90cf6de9444772dacab01bb511287b7744acad5169a69.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Archive ID
0ea774bff5493732
SHA-256
0ea774bff5493732d0b90cf6de9444772dacab01bb511287b7744acad5169a69
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 11:21 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001239

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001239falsesexual0.000800falseself-harm0.000557falseself-harm/intent0.000239falseself-harm/instructions0.000223falseviolence/graphic0.000035falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081971

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918029onnx/unsafe0.081971onnx/nsfw0.045200onnx/nsfl0.036770
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with yellow shirt and green plant sprouting from head, standing against gray background beneath "SpudBuddy" text.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,034 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,046, response 682

Review tags

  • sprouting (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • multicolored hands (object, 0.80)
  • yellow shirt (object, 0.80)
  • 256 color palette (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)
  • plant sprout (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • sprouting

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • black
  • red
  • blue
  • purple
  • green
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • character centered above text
  • text spans full width below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has brown skin tone, black eyes, multicolored facial details (red, blue, purple), yellow short-sleeve shirt, outstretched arms with multicolored hands. Green plant sprouts from top of head—two leaves and stem visible. Below character: "SpudBuddy" text in bold pixelated font; each letter has black outline and white fill. No animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with yellow shirt and green plant sprouting from head, standing against gray background beneath "SpudBuddy" text.

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 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

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow shirt character plant sprout
  • gray background spudbuddy text
  • pixelated character with green sprout

Objects

  • yellow shirt
  • multicolored hands

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 256-color palette

Subjects

  • character
  • plant sprout

Visible Text

  • SpudBuddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpudBuddy

Wordwall

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  • pixel art style
  • brown skin tone
  • black eyes
  • multicolored facial details
  • yellow shirt
  • outstretched arms
  • multicolored hands
  • green plant sprout
  • two leaves on stem
  • "SpudBuddy" text
  • bold pixelated font
  • black outline
  • white fill
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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
2522
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 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/2522.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140936id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/2522.gif