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Pixelated character with white head and blue torso in multiple poses, some with speech bubbles and red lightning symbols.

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Pixelated character with white head and blue torso in multiple poses, some with speech bubbles and red lightning symbols.

Pixelated character with white head and blue torso in multiple poses, some with speech bubbles and red lightning symbols. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns left to right
  • speech bubble appears
  • lightning symbol appears

Animation Summary

  • Character head turns left to right across frames; speech bubbles and red lightning symbols appear in specific poses.

Composition

  • multiple poses
  • text and symbols

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated character with white head and blue torso. Top row: four identical static poses. Second row: leftmost has 'Screw This' speech bubble; next three show head turning left to right. Third row: leftmost has 'Buddy' text; next three show head turning left to right. Bottom row: four poses with red lightning symbols and 'Warn' text; rightmost has 'Hey Neighbor' speech bubble. All poses use blue torso, white head, gray background. Speech bubbles contain exact text. Lightning symbols are red. Text is white with black outline. Character has neutral expression. Animation changes: head turns left to right across frames. Speech bubbles and lightning symbols appear in specific frames.

Description

  • Pixelated character with white head and blue torso in multiple poses, some with speech bubbles and red lightning symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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 Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon with screw this
  • buddy icon with hey neighbor
  • buddy icon with warn
  • buddy icon with lightning
  • buddy icon with speech bubble
  • buddy icon with head turn
  • buddy icon with gray background
  • buddy icon with blue torso

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Uncertain Text

  • Buddy

Visible Text

  • Buddy
  • Screw This
  • Hey Neighbor
  • Warn

Visually Supported Entities

  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • white head
  • blue torso
  • gray background
  • Screw This speech bubble
  • Hey Neighbor speech bubble
  • red lightning symbols
  • Warn text
  • head turns left to right
  • neutral expression
  • white text with black outline

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
34286
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:12 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/28efcab73ffbad838859645b679c267321ee65bfdcf75875efec2cb8a4ed4e20.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Archive ID
28efcab73ffbad83
SHA-256
28efcab73ffbad838859645b679c267321ee65bfdcf75875efec2cb8a4ed4e20
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096096

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919907onnx/unsafe0.096096onnx/nsfw0.048101onnx/nsfl0.047995
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with white head and blue torso in multiple poses, some with speech bubbles and red lightning symbols.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,241 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 973

Review tags

  • head turns left to right (action, 0.80)
  • lightning symbol appears (action, 0.80)
  • speech bubble appears (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • lightning symbol (object, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turns left to right
  • speech bubble appears
  • lightning symbol appears

Animation

  • head turns left to right
  • speech bubble appears
  • lightning symbol appears

Animation Summary

  • Character head turns left to right across frames; speech bubbles and red lightning symbols appear in specific poses.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • multiple poses
  • text and symbols

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated character with white head and blue torso. Top row: four identical static poses. Second row: leftmost has 'Screw This' speech bubble; next three show head turning left to right. Third row: leftmost has 'Buddy' text; next three show head turning left to right. Bottom row: four poses with red lightning symbols and 'Warn' text; rightmost has 'Hey Neighbor' speech bubble. All poses use blue torso, white head, gray background. Speech bubbles contain exact text. Lightning symbols are red. Text is white with black outline. Character has neutral expression. Animation changes: head turns left to right across frames. Speech bubbles and lightning symbols appear in specific frames.

Description

  • Pixelated character with white head and blue torso in multiple poses, some with speech bubbles and red lightning symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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 Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon with screw this
  • buddy icon with hey neighbor
  • buddy icon with warn
  • buddy icon with lightning
  • buddy icon with speech bubble
  • buddy icon with head turn
  • buddy icon with gray background
  • buddy icon with blue torso

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • lightning symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Uncertain Text

  • Buddy

Visible Text

  • Buddy
  • Screw This
  • Hey Neighbor
  • Warn

Visually Supported Entities

  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • white head
  • blue torso
  • gray background
  • Screw This speech bubble
  • Hey Neighbor speech bubble
  • red lightning symbols
  • Warn text
  • head turns left to right
  • neutral expression
  • white text with black outline
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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
34286
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:12 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/34286.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020428130949id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/34286.gif