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Pixelated character with brown hair and blue shirt in various poses above repeated text, one frame includes speech bubble.

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Pixelated character with brown hair and blue shirt in various poses above repeated text, one frame includes speech bubble.

Pixelated character with brown hair and blue shirt in various poses above repeated text, one frame includes speech bubble. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballerico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • figure changes poses across frames: standing → raising arms → crossing arms → extending arms left

Animation Summary

The figure cycles through four distinct poses across frames: standing with arms at sides, raising both arms upward, crossing arms over chest, and extending left arm outward. One frame includes a speech bubble containing the word "freak."

Composition

  • repeated text below each pose

Dense Caption

Gray background features a pixelated figure with white face, brown hair, and blue long-sleeve shirt. The figure appears in multiple poses: arms at sides, arms raised, arms crossed, and one instance with arms extended left. Below each pose is repeated text "IPO! IPO!" underlined. One frame includes a speech bubble containing the word "freak."

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair and blue shirt in various poses above repeated text, one frame includes speech bubble.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 2304
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 2304
  • 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

  • pixelated character brown hair blue shirt IPO! text

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • IPO! IPO!
  • freak

Visually Supported Entities

  • "freak" speech bubble

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white face
  • blue shirt
  • gray background
  • arms at sides
  • arms raised
  • arms crossed
  • arms extended left
  • speech bubble
  • "IPO! IPO!" text
  • "freak" speech bubble

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
2304
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/13/138e30801e8b29de3b91cb17d5092ff92f59de687e32b2f9823c3a3023d91bbc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
Archive ID
138e30801e8b29de
SHA-256
138e30801e8b29de3b91cb17d5092ff92f59de687e32b2f9823c3a3023d91bbc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087136

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915150onnx/unsafe0.087136onnx/nsfw0.047680onnx/nsfl0.039455
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with brown hair and blue shirt in various poses above repeated text, one frame includes speech bubble.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,635 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 740

Review tags

  • crossing arms (action, 0.80)
  • extending arms left (action, 0.80)
  • raising arms (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit aesthetic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • raising arms
  • crossing arms
  • extending arms left

Animation

  • figure changes poses across frames: standing → raising arms → crossing arms → extending arms left

Animation Summary

The figure cycles through four distinct poses across frames: standing with arms at sides, raising both arms upward, crossing arms over chest, and extending left arm outward. One frame includes a speech bubble containing the word "freak."

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • repeated text below each pose

Dense Caption

Gray background features a pixelated figure with white face, brown hair, and blue long-sleeve shirt. The figure appears in multiple poses: arms at sides, arms raised, arms crossed, and one instance with arms extended left. Below each pose is repeated text "IPO! IPO!" underlined. One frame includes a speech bubble containing the word "freak."

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair and blue shirt in various poses above repeated text, one frame includes speech bubble.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 2304
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 2304
  • 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
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character brown hair blue shirt IPO! text

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit aesthetic

Subjects

  • pixelated figure

Visible Text

  • IPO! IPO!
  • freak

Visually Supported Entities

  • "freak" speech bubble

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white face
  • blue shirt
  • gray background
  • arms at sides
  • arms raised
  • arms crossed
  • arms extended left
  • speech bubble
  • "IPO! IPO!" text
  • "freak" speech bubble
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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
2304
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:02 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/2304.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613133926id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/2304.gif