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Pixelated figure in black suit with red tie holding red-tipped object, text "Men in Black" below, gray background with light effects.

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Pixelated figure in black suit with red tie holding red-tipped object, text "Men in Black" below, gray background with light effects.

Pixelated figure in black suit with red tie holding red-tipped object, text "Men in Black" below, gray background with light effects. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Waybac…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • object changes from red-tipped to glowing
  • light effects intensify
  • suit darkens

Animation Summary

  • Figure holds red-tipped object, then glowing object, then empty hands; light effects intensify; suit darkens slightly.

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • white area bottom-left

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with white circular head, black suit, red tie, and black arms; left hand holds red-tipped object in first frame, right hand holds glowing object in second frame, both hands empty in third frame; text "Men in Black" in pixelated font with underscore under "Men" and "Black"; gray background with bright light effects in right frames; figure's suit darkens slightly in third frame; white rectangular area in bottom-left corner of first frame.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in black suit with red tie holding red-tipped object, text "Men in Black" below, gray background with light effects.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • Men in Black

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Men in Black pixelated figure
  • black suit red tie
  • red-tipped object glowing object
  • gray background light effects
  • underscore text
  • white rectangular area
  • buddy icon animation
  • 2000s retro animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • white rectangular area in first frame may be cropping artifact

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 2680
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 2680
  • 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

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Men in Black

Wordwall

  • Men in Black
  • pixelated figure
  • black suit
  • red tie
  • red-tipped object
  • glowing object
  • gray background
  • light effects
  • underscore text
  • white rectangular area

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
2680
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/1b/1bed8f1f40fe822028afa7cfb71a0ec25d66a1f33ecdb11cf433e8285acb653e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:31 UTC
Archive ID
1bed8f1f40fe8220
SHA-256
1bed8f1f40fe822028afa7cfb71a0ec25d66a1f33ecdb11cf433e8285acb653e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121104

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919374onnx/unsafe0.121104onnx/nsfw0.082466onnx/nsfl0.038638
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Pixelated figure in black suit with red tie holding red-tipped object, text "Men in Black" below, gray background with light effects.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,979 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 881

Review tags

  • glowing (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • red tipped object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • glowing

Animation

  • object changes from red-tipped to glowing
  • light effects intensify
  • suit darkens

Animation Summary

  • Figure holds red-tipped object, then glowing object, then empty hands; light effects intensify; suit darkens slightly.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • red
  • light

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • white area bottom-left

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with white circular head, black suit, red tie, and black arms; left hand holds red-tipped object in first frame, right hand holds glowing object in second frame, both hands empty in third frame; text "Men in Black" in pixelated font with underscore under "Men" and "Black"; gray background with bright light effects in right frames; figure's suit darkens slightly in third frame; white rectangular area in bottom-left corner of first frame.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in black suit with red tie holding red-tipped object, text "Men in Black" below, gray background with light effects.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • Men in Black

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • mysterious
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Men in Black pixelated figure
  • black suit red tie
  • red-tipped object glowing object
  • gray background light effects
  • underscore text
  • white rectangular area
  • buddy icon animation
  • 2000s retro animation

Objects

  • red-tipped object
  • glowing object

Preprocessing Notes

  • white rectangular area in first frame may be cropping artifact

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 2680
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 2680
  • 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
  • retro

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Men in Black

Wordwall

  • Men in Black
  • pixelated figure
  • black suit
  • red tie
  • red-tipped object
  • glowing object
  • gray background
  • light effects
  • underscore text
  • white rectangular area
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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
2680
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:31 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/2680.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613180948id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/2680.gif