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Pixelated blue figure with white head and gray hand gestures, text below changes from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

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Pixelated blue figure with white head and gray hand gestures, text below changes from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

Pixelated blue figure with white head and gray hand gestures, text below changes from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ba…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text below the figure changes sequentially from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

Composition

  • single figure
  • text below
  • static
  • sequential

Dense Caption

Gray background. Blue figure with white circular head and blue body, gray hand gestures. Text below figure changes sequentially: 'fun energy', 'E', 'Ed', 'Edit', 'Edit I', 'Edit Bi', 'Edit Bul', 'Edit Bud', 'Edit Budi', 'Edit Budd', 'Edit Budde', 'Edit Buddi', 'Edit Buddil', 'Edit Buddy', 'Edit Buddyi'. Figure remains static throughout. Text is black, pixelated, and underlined. Each frame shows a single text change from the previous frame.

Description

  • Pixelated blue figure with white head and gray hand gestures, text below changes from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

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

  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue figure white head gray hand
  • text changes gray background
  • pixelated text edit buddy
  • underlined text sequential
  • gray background blue figure
  • edit buddy text
  • fun energy text
  • buddy icons text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text changes are sequential and consistent across frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 36548
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 36548
  • 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

Uncertain Text

  • Edit Buddil
  • Edit Buddy
  • Edit Buddyi

Visible Text

  • fun energy
  • E
  • Ed
  • Edit
  • Edit I
  • Edit Bi
  • Edit Bul
  • Edit Bud
  • Edit Budi
  • Edit Budd
  • Edit Budde
  • Edit Buddi

Wordwall

  • blue figure
  • white head
  • gray hand
  • gray background
  • text changes
  • underlined text
  • pixelated
  • sequential text
  • black text
  • static figure

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
36548
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/0f/0ff1c09b194a7b3c36d4cfdb255e20837c2c94558f526187986d99277206fe31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
Archive ID
0ff1c09b194a7b3c
SHA-256
0ff1c09b194a7b3c36d4cfdb255e20837c2c94558f526187986d99277206fe31
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:00 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094896

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914195onnx/unsafe0.094896onnx/nsfw0.055979onnx/nsfl0.038917
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Pixelated blue figure with white head and gray hand gestures, text below changes from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:05 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,679 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,075, response 872

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • gray background (object, 0.80)
  • gray hand (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • blue figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text below the figure changes sequentially from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • single figure
  • text below
  • static
  • sequential

Dense Caption

Gray background. Blue figure with white circular head and blue body, gray hand gestures. Text below figure changes sequentially: 'fun energy', 'E', 'Ed', 'Edit', 'Edit I', 'Edit Bi', 'Edit Bul', 'Edit Bud', 'Edit Budi', 'Edit Budd', 'Edit Budde', 'Edit Buddi', 'Edit Buddil', 'Edit Buddy', 'Edit Buddyi'. Figure remains static throughout. Text is black, pixelated, and underlined. Each frame shows a single text change from the previous frame.

Description

  • Pixelated blue figure with white head and gray hand gestures, text below changes from 'fun energy' to 'Edit Buddy' across frames.

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

  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue figure white head gray hand
  • text changes gray background
  • pixelated text edit buddy
  • underlined text sequential
  • gray background blue figure
  • edit buddy text
  • fun energy text
  • buddy icons text

Objects

  • gray hand
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • text changes are sequential and consistent across frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 36548
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 36548
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • blue figure

Uncertain Text

  • Edit Buddil
  • Edit Buddy
  • Edit Buddyi

Visible Text

  • fun energy
  • E
  • Ed
  • Edit
  • Edit I
  • Edit Bi
  • Edit Bul
  • Edit Bud
  • Edit Budi
  • Edit Budd
  • Edit Budde
  • Edit Buddi

Wordwall

  • blue figure
  • white head
  • gray hand
  • gray background
  • text changes
  • underlined text
  • pixelated
  • sequential text
  • black text
  • static figure
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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
36548
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:27 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/36548.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011223233850id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/36548.gif