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Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp, holding microphone in one frame and cross in another, text 'One Mic' below.

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Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp, holding microphone in one frame and cross in another, text 'One Mic' below.

Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp, holding microphone in one frame and cross in another, text 'One Mic' below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character holds microphone in first frame, cross in second frame

Animation Summary

  • Character holds microphone in first frame, cross in second frame

Composition

  • horizontal
  • per
  • text bar below

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp. Character wears black jacket with white stripes, blue pants. Left frame shows character holding microphone; right frame shows character holding cross. Background features brown checkered wall, black door with gray frame, yellow ceiling tiles. Gray bar below contains text 'One Mic' in white pixelated font with underscore under 'O'. Animation changes character's held object between frames.

Description

Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp, holding microphone in one frame and cross in another, text 'One Mic' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character microphone cross
  • brown checkered wall desk lamp
  • One Mic underscore
  • 8-bit animation held object change
  • buddy icon pixel art
  • character brown hair red face
  • black jacket white stripes blue pants
  • yellow ceiling gray door frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention 'ballericons' but no visual evidence supports this identity
  • quarantined composition: two frames per row
  • quarantined composition: horizontal grid
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow ceiling tiles gray door frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • One Mic

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red face
  • black jacket
  • white stripes
  • blue pants
  • desk
  • lamp
  • microphone
  • cross
  • brown checkered wall
  • black door
  • gray frame
  • yellow ceiling
  • gray bar
  • One Mic
  • underscore
  • pixel art
  • animation
  • held object change

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
44889
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:05 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/0f/0f7452f8c34366877f200b71e75d1a3970b49148f01b038030d4d064df4535fb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Archive ID
0f7452f8c3436687
SHA-256
0f7452f8c34366877f200b71e75d1a3970b49148f01b038030d4d064df4535fb
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001248

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084434

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917714onnx/unsafe0.084434onnx/nsfw0.044291onnx/nsfl0.040142
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp, holding microphone in one frame and cross in another, text 'One Mic' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:56 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,575 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,077, response 802

Review tags

  • holds (action, 0.80)
  • sits (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cross (object, 0.80)
  • desk (object, 0.80)
  • lamp (object, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sits
  • holds

Animation

  • character holds microphone in first frame, cross in second frame

Animation Summary

  • Character holds microphone in first frame, cross in second frame

Colors

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

Composition

  • horizontal
  • per
  • text bar below

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp. Character wears black jacket with white stripes, blue pants. Left frame shows character holding microphone; right frame shows character holding cross. Background features brown checkered wall, black door with gray frame, yellow ceiling tiles. Gray bar below contains text 'One Mic' in white pixelated font with underscore under 'O'. Animation changes character's held object between frames.

Description

Pixel art character with brown hair and red face sits at desk with lamp, holding microphone in one frame and cross in another, text 'One Mic' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character microphone cross
  • brown checkered wall desk lamp
  • One Mic underscore
  • 8-bit animation held object change
  • buddy icon pixel art
  • character brown hair red face
  • black jacket white stripes blue pants
  • yellow ceiling gray door frame

Objects

  • desk
  • lamp
  • microphone
  • cross

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention 'ballericons' but no visual evidence supports this identity
  • quarantined composition: two frames per row
  • quarantined composition: horizontal grid
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow ceiling tiles gray door frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • One Mic

Wordwall

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  • red face
  • black jacket
  • white stripes
  • blue pants
  • desk
  • lamp
  • microphone
  • cross
  • brown checkered wall
  • black door
  • gray frame
  • yellow ceiling
  • gray bar
  • One Mic
  • underscore
  • pixel art
  • animation
  • held object change
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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
44889
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:05 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/44889.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020425114042id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/44889.gif