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Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms, under "My Buddy" text, with hand interactions across frames.

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Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms, under "My Buddy" text, with hand interactions across frames.

Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms, under "My Buddy" text, with hand interactions across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Waybac…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sequential hand interactions
  • hand movements toward figure
  • figure's arms change from outstretched to down

Animation Summary

The animation shows sequential hand interactions with a yellow figure: hands approach from the top, touch the figure's head, and hold the head while the figure's arms change from outstretched to down.

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • hands in various positions

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms appears in all frames. The figure's arms are outstretched in the first frame, then hands appear in various positions: a single hand on the left, two hands approaching from the top, a hand touching the head, a hand holding the head, and a hand holding the head with the figure's arms down. The text "My Buddy" is consistently displayed below the figure in all frames. The background is solid light gray. The figure's head is white, body is yellow, and hands are peach-colored. The animation shows sequential hand interactions with the figure's head and body.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms, under "My Buddy" text, with hand interactions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure white head peach hands
  • My Buddy text hand interactions
  • pixelated animation hand touching head
  • buddy icon hand holding head
  • 2000s animation hand interactions
  • buddy icon yellow figure white head
  • hand interactions yellow figure
  • buddy icon hand holding head animation

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • My Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white spherical head
  • outstretched arms
  • peach hands
  • light gray background
  • My Buddy text
  • hand touching head
  • hand holding head
  • sequential hand interactions

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
3503
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:18 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/17324ea361fe3c4c7471125cc5bafb5890b4ae03e39787ec0401f02f53db7c76.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
Archive ID
17324ea361fe3c4c
SHA-256
17324ea361fe3c4c7471125cc5bafb5890b4ae03e39787ec0401f02f53db7c76
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.098340

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914728onnx/unsafe0.098340onnx/nsfw0.058863onnx/nsfl0.039478
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Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms, under "My Buddy" text, with hand interactions across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,991 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,081, response 777

Review tags

  • approaching (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • touching (action, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • interactive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • white spherical head (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • peach hands (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • touching
  • holding
  • approaching

Animation

  • sequential hand interactions
  • hand movements toward figure
  • figure's arms change from outstretched to down

Animation Summary

The animation shows sequential hand interactions with a yellow figure: hands approach from the top, touch the figure's head, and hold the head while the figure's arms change from outstretched to down.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • peach
  • light gray

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • hands in various positions

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms appears in all frames. The figure's arms are outstretched in the first frame, then hands appear in various positions: a single hand on the left, two hands approaching from the top, a hand touching the head, a hand holding the head, and a hand holding the head with the figure's arms down. The text "My Buddy" is consistently displayed below the figure in all frames. The background is solid light gray. The figure's head is white, body is yellow, and hands are peach-colored. The animation shows sequential hand interactions with the figure's head and body.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow figure with white spherical head and outstretched arms, under "My Buddy" text, with hand interactions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • interactive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure white head peach hands
  • My Buddy text hand interactions
  • pixelated animation hand touching head
  • buddy icon hand holding head
  • 2000s animation hand interactions
  • buddy icon yellow figure white head
  • hand interactions yellow figure
  • buddy icon hand holding head animation

Objects

  • white spherical head

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • peach hands

Visible Text

  • My Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white spherical head
  • outstretched arms
  • peach hands
  • light gray background
  • My Buddy text
  • hand touching head
  • hand holding head
  • sequential hand interactions
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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
3503
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:18 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/3503.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140605id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/3503.gif