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A yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in six variations, each labeled 'Grow' below.

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A yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in six variations, each labeled 'Grow' below.

A yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in six variations, each labeled 'Grow' below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nati…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • motion blur on bottom-left and bottom-middle figures

Animation Summary

The figure appears in six variations: top-left is smallest and most pixelated, top-middle is slightly larger, top-right is largest and least pixelated, bottom-left and bottom-middle show motion blur.

Composition

  • six figures arranged in two
  • centered figures
  • text below each figure

Dense Caption

Six variations of a yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appear on a gray background. Each figure has a white circular head, yellow shirt, and arms extended horizontally. The figures vary in size and pixelation: top-left is smallest and most pixelated, top-middle is slightly larger, top-right is largest and least pixelated, bottom-left is medium-sized with motion blur, bottom-middle is medium-sized with motion blur. All figures have black outlines and are labeled 'Grow' in white text with black underline beneath them. The background is solid gray.

Description

  • A yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in six variations, each labeled 'Grow' 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow-shirted figure grow
  • grow text gray background
  • motion blur grow icon
  • six grow variations
  • pixelated grow icon
  • white head yellow shirt
  • grow icon gray background
  • grow text white underline

Preprocessing Notes

  • top-left figure is smallest and most pixelated
  • top-right figure is largest and least pixelated
  • bottom-left and bottom-middle figures show motion blur
  • quarantined composition: six figures arranged in two rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 341
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 341
  • 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

  • Grow

Wordwall

  • yellow-shirted figure
  • white head
  • outstretched arms
  • gray background
  • Grow text
  • black outline
  • motion blur
  • pixelation
  • six variations
  • white underline

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
341
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/16/16acd5e508d36eab2de530d5c1d2fc4e50bcda9b2c5ebd22ebf793528503b8b7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Archive ID
16acd5e508d36eab
SHA-256
16acd5e508d36eab2de530d5c1d2fc4e50bcda9b2c5ebd22ebf793528503b8b7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:07 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082139

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930149onnx/unsafe0.082139onnx/nsfw0.044968onnx/nsfl0.037171
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A yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in six variations, each labeled 'Grow' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,753 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 904

Review tags

  • outstretched arms (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • yellow shirted figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • outstretched arms

Animation

  • motion blur on bottom-left and bottom-middle figures

Animation Summary

The figure appears in six variations: top-left is smallest and most pixelated, top-middle is slightly larger, top-right is largest and least pixelated, bottom-left and bottom-middle show motion blur.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • six figures arranged in two
  • centered figures
  • text below each figure

Dense Caption

Six variations of a yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appear on a gray background. Each figure has a white circular head, yellow shirt, and arms extended horizontally. The figures vary in size and pixelation: top-left is smallest and most pixelated, top-middle is slightly larger, top-right is largest and least pixelated, bottom-left is medium-sized with motion blur, bottom-middle is medium-sized with motion blur. All figures have black outlines and are labeled 'Grow' in white text with black underline beneath them. The background is solid gray.

Description

  • A yellow-shirted figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in six variations, each labeled 'Grow' 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow-shirted figure grow
  • grow text gray background
  • motion blur grow icon
  • six grow variations
  • pixelated grow icon
  • white head yellow shirt
  • grow icon gray background
  • grow text white underline

Preprocessing Notes

  • top-left figure is smallest and most pixelated
  • top-right figure is largest and least pixelated
  • bottom-left and bottom-middle figures show motion blur
  • quarantined composition: six figures arranged in two rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 341
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 341
  • 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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • yellow-shirted figure

Visible Text

  • Grow

Wordwall

  • yellow-shirted figure
  • white head
  • outstretched arms
  • gray background
  • Grow text
  • black outline
  • motion blur
  • pixelation
  • six variations
  • white underline
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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
341
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:10 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/341.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010910135356id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/341.gif