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Pixelated icon shows a white cursor clicking a gray minimize button above a yellow hand holding a white ball, with "Minimize" text below.

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Pixelated icon shows a white cursor clicking a gray minimize button above a yellow hand holding a white ball, with "Minimize" text below.

Pixelated icon shows a white cursor clicking a gray minimize button above a yellow hand holding a white ball, with "Minimize" text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wa…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hand and ball shrink progressively
  • cursor and minimize button static

Animation Summary

  • The hand and ball shrink progressively from full size to tiny size across three of frames while the cursor and minimize button remain static

Composition

  • centered
  • three of

Dense Caption

The icon features a gray rectangular window with a black horizontal line (minimize button) at the top. A white cursor with a black outline clicks the minimize button. Below the window, a yellow hand holds a white ball. The text "Minimize" appears beneath the hand in white pixelated font with a black outline. In the animation sequence, the hand and ball shrink progressively from full size to tiny size across three rows of frames, while the cursor and minimize button remain static. The background is solid light gray.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a white cursor clicking a gray minimize button above a yellow hand holding a white ball, with "Minimize" text 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

  • minimize button cursor hand ball
  • pixelated minimize icon
  • shrink animation minimize button
  • yellow hand white ball minimize text
  • gray window cursor minimize button
  • 2000s minimize icon
  • buddy icon minimize animation
  • minimize button hand ball shrink

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined animationSummary: The hand and ball shrink progressively from full size to tiny size across three rows of frames while the cursor and minimize button remain static.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of three frames
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: ballericons
  • 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

  • hand

Visible Text

  • Minimize

Wordwall

  • gray window
  • black minimize line
  • white cursor
  • yellow hand
  • white ball
  • Minimize text
  • pixelated style
  • shrink animation
  • light gray background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
34893
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/25/25599a9e31b2195f3a4e1eb32ac804d28d706831a4672ec0b85caa5df80abf8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Archive ID
25599a9e31b2195f
SHA-256
25599a9e31b2195f3a4e1eb32ac804d28d706831a4672ec0b85caa5df80abf8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088410

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915047onnx/unsafe0.088410onnx/nsfw0.050328onnx/nsfl0.038082
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon shows a white cursor clicking a gray minimize button above a yellow hand holding a white ball, with "Minimize" text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,147 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 840

Review tags

  • clicking (action, 0.80)
  • shrinking (action, 0.80)
  • functional (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • minimize button (object, 0.80)
  • window (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • ball (subject, 0.80)
  • cursor (subject, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • clicking
  • shrinking

Animation

  • hand and ball shrink progressively
  • cursor and minimize button static

Animation Summary

  • The hand and ball shrink progressively from full size to tiny size across three of frames while the cursor and minimize button remain static

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered
  • three of

Dense Caption

The icon features a gray rectangular window with a black horizontal line (minimize button) at the top. A white cursor with a black outline clicks the minimize button. Below the window, a yellow hand holds a white ball. The text "Minimize" appears beneath the hand in white pixelated font with a black outline. In the animation sequence, the hand and ball shrink progressively from full size to tiny size across three rows of frames, while the cursor and minimize button remain static. The background is solid light gray.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a white cursor clicking a gray minimize button above a yellow hand holding a white ball, with "Minimize" text 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
  • functional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • minimize button cursor hand ball
  • pixelated minimize icon
  • shrink animation minimize button
  • yellow hand white ball minimize text
  • gray window cursor minimize button
  • 2000s minimize icon
  • buddy icon minimize animation
  • minimize button hand ball shrink

Objects

  • window
  • minimize button

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined animationSummary: The hand and ball shrink progressively from full size to tiny size across three rows of frames while the cursor and minimize button remain static.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of three frames
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: ballericons
  • 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
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • hand
  • ball
  • cursor

Visible Text

  • Minimize

Wordwall

  • gray window
  • black minimize line
  • white cursor
  • yellow hand
  • white ball
  • Minimize text
  • pixelated style
  • shrink animation
  • light gray background
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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
34893
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:16 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/34893.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020104103249id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/34893.gif