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Pixelated figure in yellow top and purple shorts with arms outstretched above text reading Thong Buddy on gray background

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Pixelated figure in yellow top and purple shorts with arms outstretched above text reading Thong Buddy on gray background

Pixelated figure in yellow top and purple shorts with arms outstretched above text reading Thong Buddy on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image

Composition

  • centered figure
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with white head, yellow torso, black belt, purple thong-style shorts, and white legs stands with arms extended horizontally. Text below reads 'Thong Buddy' in bold black pixelated font with white outlines. Background is solid light gray. Figure has no facial features. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible motion or animation. Text is fully legible. Colors are yellow, purple, black, white, and gray. Composition centers the figure and text vertically. Style is retro digital with blocky pixels. No additional objects or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in yellow top and purple shorts with arms outstretched above text reading Thong Buddy on gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 7232
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 7232
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thong buddy pixel art
  • yellow purple white figure
  • pixelated figure arms extended
  • thong buddy text
  • gray background pixel art
  • retro digital buddy icon
  • yellow top purple shorts figure
  • pixelated text thong buddy

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Thong Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow torso
  • purple thong shorts
  • white legs
  • black belt
  • white head
  • arms extended
  • gray background
  • bold text
  • pixelated figure
  • no facial features
  • text 'Thong Buddy'
  • white outlines on text
  • solid background
  • retro digital style
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
7232
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/2694cef9729d0848c4aea7da716f1feddbb4c6b827a2d8c5b57a570198b5de44.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Archive ID
2694cef9729d0848
SHA-256
2694cef9729d0848c4aea7da716f1feddbb4c6b827a2d8c5b57a570198b5de44
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077272

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated figure in yellow top and purple shorts with arms outstretched above text reading Thong Buddy on gray background

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:31 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,597 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,049, response 805

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms extended

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with white head, yellow torso, black belt, purple thong-style shorts, and white legs stands with arms extended horizontally. Text below reads 'Thong Buddy' in bold black pixelated font with white outlines. Background is solid light gray. Figure has no facial features. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible motion or animation. Text is fully legible. Colors are yellow, purple, black, white, and gray. Composition centers the figure and text vertically. Style is retro digital with blocky pixels. No additional objects or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in yellow top and purple shorts with arms outstretched above text reading Thong Buddy on gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 7232
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 7232
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • thong buddy pixel art
  • yellow purple white figure
  • pixelated figure arms extended
  • thong buddy text
  • gray background pixel art
  • retro digital buddy icon
  • yellow top purple shorts figure
  • pixelated text thong buddy

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Thong Buddy

Wordwall

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  • purple thong shorts
  • white legs
  • black belt
  • white head
  • arms extended
  • gray background
  • bold text
  • pixelated figure
  • no facial features
  • text 'Thong Buddy'
  • white outlines on text
  • solid background
  • retro digital style
  • blocky pixels
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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
7232
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:41 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/7232.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011127205423id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/7232.gif