Pixelated yellow smiley face with black eyes and mouth holds a small American flag while wearing a red, white, and blue hat, with text below reading "Uncle Sam".

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Pixelated yellow smiley face with black eyes and mouth holds a small American flag while wearing a red, white, and blue hat, with text below reading "Uncle Sam".

Pixelated yellow smiley face with black eyes and mouth holds a small American flag while wearing a red, white, and blue hat, with text below reading "Uncle Sam". 50×50 GIF AIM bud…

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Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below
  • flag to left of face

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a yellow circular smiley face with solid black square eyes and a straight black mouth. The face wears a red, white, and blue hat with a checkered pattern on the brim and a blue band. The left hand holds a small American flag on a brown pole; the flag has red and white checkered stripes and a blue field with white stars. Below the figure, the text "Uncle Sam" is rendered in bold, blocky, pixelated letters with black outlines and white fill. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette of yellow, black, white, red, blue, and brown. The style is retro digital with visible pixelation and no anti-aliasing.

Description

Pixelated yellow smiley face with black eyes and mouth holds a small American flag while wearing a red, white, and blue hat, with text below reading "Uncle Sam".

Identity Hypotheses

  • Uncle Sam

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 topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Uncle Sam

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Uncle Sam smiley flag
  • American flag pixel art
  • yellow smiley hat
  • Uncle Sam pixel icon
  • smiley face flag hat
  • pixel art Uncle Sam
  • retro digital Uncle Sam
  • yellow face American flag

Objects

  • flag

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 46726
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 46726
  • 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

  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • Uncle Sam

Visually Supported Entities

  • Uncle Sam

Wordwall

  • yellow smiley face
  • black square eyes
  • straight black mouth
  • red white blue hat
  • checkered brim
  • blue band
  • brown flag pole
  • American flag
  • red white checkered stripes
  • blue field with white stars
  • Uncle Sam text
  • light gray background
  • pixelated style
  • blocky text
  • solid color palette

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
46726
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/26f6c1ba65b65b7a1b4d7fe646673e1b57b166b76afec0d13c76ae4613ab584e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Archive ID
26f6c1ba65b65b7a
SHA-256
26f6c1ba65b65b7a1b4d7fe646673e1b57b166b76afec0d13c76ae4613ab584e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.090714

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909286onnx/unsafe0.090714onnx/nsfw0.056558onnx/nsfl0.034156
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated yellow smiley face with black eyes and mouth holds a small American flag while wearing a red, white, and blue hat, with text below reading "Uncle Sam".

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:05 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,054, response 918

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • patriotic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • flag (object, 0.80)
  • pole (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • american flag (subject, 0.80)
  • hat (subject, 0.80)
  • smiley face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below
  • flag to left of face

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a yellow circular smiley face with solid black square eyes and a straight black mouth. The face wears a red, white, and blue hat with a checkered pattern on the brim and a blue band. The left hand holds a small American flag on a brown pole; the flag has red and white checkered stripes and a blue field with white stars. Below the figure, the text "Uncle Sam" is rendered in bold, blocky, pixelated letters with black outlines and white fill. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette of yellow, black, white, red, blue, and brown. The style is retro digital with visible pixelation and no anti-aliasing.

Description

Pixelated yellow smiley face with black eyes and mouth holds a small American flag while wearing a red, white, and blue hat, with text below reading "Uncle Sam".

Identity Hypotheses

  • Uncle Sam

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 topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • patriotic
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Uncle Sam

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Uncle Sam smiley flag
  • American flag pixel art
  • yellow smiley hat
  • Uncle Sam pixel icon
  • smiley face flag hat
  • pixel art Uncle Sam
  • retro digital Uncle Sam
  • yellow face American flag

Objects

  • flag
  • hat
  • pole

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 46726
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 46726
  • 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

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • smiley face
  • American flag
  • hat

Visible Text

  • Uncle Sam

Visually Supported Entities

  • Uncle Sam

Wordwall

  • yellow smiley face
  • black square eyes
  • straight black mouth
  • red white blue hat
  • checkered brim
  • blue band
  • brown flag pole
  • American flag
  • red white checkered stripes
  • blue field with white stars
  • Uncle Sam text
  • light gray background
  • pixelated style
  • blocky text
  • solid color palette
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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
46726
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:13 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