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Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below.

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Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below.

Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sphere moves from hand to right
  • hand position changes

Animation Summary

  • Character holds blue sphere, then sphere floats right while hand position changes.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below
  • sphere to right

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below. The character's pose changes across frames: initially holding the sphere with both hands, then with one hand, and finally with the sphere floating to the right. The sphere's size and position vary across frames, with the character's expression remaining neutral. The background is solid gray.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: attitude

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Metroid character blue sphere
  • pixel art character holding sphere
  • blue sphere floating animation
  • gray background Metroid icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence

Visible Text

  • Metroid

Visually Supported Entities

  • Metroid

Wordwall

  • orange helmet
  • yellow body
  • blue sphere
  • Metroid text
  • gray background
  • pixelated character
  • hand holding sphere
  • sphere floating
  • neutral expression
  • frame-by-frame animation

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
41432
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/18f3c4965dc5fdc5315bb6f4b898c42343a46f526ed96e72a57ae92ce32b718b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Archive ID
18f3c4965dc5fdc5
SHA-256
18f3c4965dc5fdc5315bb6f4b898c42343a46f526ed96e72a57ae92ce32b718b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083989

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:28 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,108 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 746

Review tags

  • floating (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue sphere (object, 0.80)
  • sphere moves from hand to right (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • floating

Animation

  • sphere moves from hand to right
  • hand position changes

Animation Summary

  • Character holds blue sphere, then sphere floats right while hand position changes.

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below
  • sphere to right

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below. The character's pose changes across frames: initially holding the sphere with both hands, then with one hand, and finally with the sphere floating to the right. The sphere's size and position vary across frames, with the character's expression remaining neutral. The background is solid gray.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange helmet and yellow body holding a blue sphere, labeled 'Metroid' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: attitude

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Metroid character blue sphere
  • pixel art character holding sphere
  • blue sphere floating animation
  • gray background Metroid icon

Objects

  • blue sphere

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Metroid

Visually Supported Entities

  • Metroid

Wordwall

  • orange helmet
  • yellow body
  • blue sphere
  • Metroid text
  • gray background
  • pixelated character
  • hand holding sphere
  • sphere floating
  • neutral expression
  • frame-by-frame animation
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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
41432
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:48 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/41432.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020329073030id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/41432.gif