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Pixel art of two characters: a brown-cloaked figure and a black bat-like figure, with red and yellow text elements appearing in some frames.

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Pixel art of two characters: a brown-cloaked figure and a black bat-like figure, with red and yellow text elements appearing in some frames.

Pixel art of two characters: a brown-cloaked figure and a black bat-like figure, with red and yellow text elements appearing in some frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text elements appear and disappear
  • character poses remain static

Animation Summary

  • Text elements 'POW' and red oval appear and disappear while characters remain static.

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • text elements in upper-right
  • text elements in lower-left

Dense Caption

Two pixelated characters: a brown-cloaked figure with a light face and a black bat-like figure with a yellow chest. The brown figure holds a white ball in some frames. Red and yellow text elements appear: 'POW' in bold yellow letters on red background, and a red oval shape. The characters maintain consistent poses across frames, with the brown figure's arm position changing slightly. Background is solid gray. Animation shows text elements appearing and disappearing while characters remain static.

Description

  • Pixel art of two characters: a brown-cloaked figure and a black bat-like figure, with red and yellow text elements appearing in some frames.

Fandoms

  • Batman

Identity Hypotheses

  • Batman
  • Robin

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Batman
  • Robin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Batman Robin POW
  • Batman Robin text animation
  • Batman Robin ball
  • Batman Robin pixel art
  • Batman Robin 8-bit
  • Batman Robin gray background
  • Batman Robin red oval
  • Batman Robin white ball

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate '2002' and '2007' era but pixels show consistent style

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • POW

Visually Supported Entities

  • Batman
  • Robin

Wordwall

  • brown-cloaked figure
  • black bat-like figure
  • yellow chest
  • white ball
  • red oval
  • POW text
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • static characters
  • text animation

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
25240
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.7 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/17e6765e88e62a50c1649fe90793f2c7411308ba40b2621ee263298d112101c6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Archive ID
17e6765e88e62a50
SHA-256
17e6765e88e62a50c1649fe90793f2c7411308ba40b2621ee263298d112101c6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099091

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913286onnx/unsafe0.099091onnx/nsfw0.059895onnx/nsfl0.039196
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art of two characters: a brown-cloaked figure and a black bat-like figure, with red and yellow text elements appearing in some frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,730 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,076, response 817

Review tags

  • text appears (action, 0.80)
  • text disappears (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red oval (object, 0.80)
  • white ball (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • black bat like figure (subject, 0.80)
  • brown cloaked figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text appears
  • text disappears

Animation

  • text elements appear and disappear
  • character poses remain static

Animation Summary

  • Text elements 'POW' and red oval appear and disappear while characters remain static.

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • yellow
  • white
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • text elements in upper-right
  • text elements in lower-left

Dense Caption

Two pixelated characters: a brown-cloaked figure with a light face and a black bat-like figure with a yellow chest. The brown figure holds a white ball in some frames. Red and yellow text elements appear: 'POW' in bold yellow letters on red background, and a red oval shape. The characters maintain consistent poses across frames, with the brown figure's arm position changing slightly. Background is solid gray. Animation shows text elements appearing and disappearing while characters remain static.

Description

  • Pixel art of two characters: a brown-cloaked figure and a black bat-like figure, with red and yellow text elements appearing in some frames.

Fandoms

  • Batman

Identity Hypotheses

  • Batman
  • Robin

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Batman
  • Robin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Batman Robin POW
  • Batman Robin text animation
  • Batman Robin ball
  • Batman Robin pixel art
  • Batman Robin 8-bit
  • Batman Robin gray background
  • Batman Robin red oval
  • Batman Robin white ball

Objects

  • white ball
  • red oval

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate '2002' and '2007' era but pixels show consistent style

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • brown-cloaked figure
  • black bat-like figure

Visible Text

  • POW

Visually Supported Entities

  • Batman
  • Robin

Wordwall

  • brown-cloaked figure
  • black bat-like figure
  • yellow chest
  • white ball
  • red oval
  • POW text
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • static characters
  • text animation
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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
25240
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 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/25240.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010821170134id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/25240.gif