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Pixelated icon shows a figure with green spiky hair, yellow shirt, and white face holding a red star-like shape against gray background.

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Pixelated icon shows a figure with green spiky hair, yellow shirt, and white face holding a red star-like shape against gray background.

Pixelated icon shows a figure with green spiky hair, yellow shirt, and white face holding a red star-like shape against gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ball…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon on solid gray background. Central figure has white face, black outline, green spiky hair, yellow shirt with black trim. Figure holds red star-like shape with white outline in right hand. Below figure, black text "Punk" on white rectangular background with black underline. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a figure with green spiky hair, yellow shirt, and white face holding a red star-like shape against gray background.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 3575
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 3575

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiky hair punk icon
  • yellow shirt red star pixel art
  • Punk text pixel icon
  • gray background pixel art icon

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Punk

Wordwall

  • green spiky hair
  • yellow shirt
  • white face
  • red star shape
  • gray background
  • black text
  • Punk text
  • pixel art
  • white underline
  • black trim

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
3575
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:22 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1004 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/16/1659aaf8efb7434e975358c8e692901e1b071955f65c05ab794afe36741462c7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:22 UTC
Archive ID
1659aaf8efb7434e
SHA-256
1659aaf8efb7434e975358c8e692901e1b071955f65c05ab794afe36741462c7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083615

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916385onnx/unsafe0.083615onnx/nsfw0.048411onnx/nsfl0.035204
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Pixelated icon shows a figure with green spiky hair, yellow shirt, and white face holding a red star-like shape against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:00 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,201 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 727

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red star shape (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon on solid gray background. Central figure has white face, black outline, green spiky hair, yellow shirt with black trim. Figure holds red star-like shape with white outline in right hand. Below figure, black text "Punk" on white rectangular background with black underline. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a figure with green spiky hair, yellow shirt, and white face holding a red star-like shape against gray background.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 3575
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 3575

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiky hair punk icon
  • yellow shirt red star pixel art
  • Punk text pixel icon
  • gray background pixel art icon

Objects

  • red star shape

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Punk

Wordwall

  • green spiky hair
  • yellow shirt
  • white face
  • red star shape
  • gray background
  • black text
  • Punk text
  • pixel art
  • white underline
  • black trim
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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
3575
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:22 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/3575.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010903131455id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/3575.gif