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Pixelated animation of two figures holding a hostage, with sequential fire effects and text below.

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Pixelated animation of two figures holding a hostage, with sequential fire effects and text below.

Pixelated animation of two figures holding a hostage, with sequential fire effects and text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sequential fire effects: small sparks → large flames → scattered embers → fading particles

Animation Summary

  • Fire effects progress from small sparks to large flames then scattered embers

Composition

  • horizontal of frames
  • text below each frame

Dense Caption

Two pixel-art figures in black attire hold a third figure; the central figure has white hair. The left figure holds red objects while the right figure grips the hostage's head. Sequential frames show increasing fire effects: small sparks (frame 1), large orange-yellow flames (frame 2), smaller scattered embers (frame 3), and minimal fading particles (frame 4). All figures have blank white faces with black eyes. Text "Hostage" appears below each frame in pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated animation of two figures holding a hostage, with sequential fire effects and text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures hostage fire animation
  • pixel art hostage holding red objects
  • fire effects hostage text Hostage
  • black white red orange yellow pixel animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Fire effects progress from small sparks to large flames then scattered embers across sequential frames.
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of frames

Visible Text

  • Hostage

Visually Supported Entities

  • Hostage

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • white hair
  • black attire
  • red objects
  • blank white faces
  • fire effects
  • text Hostage

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
12683
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2a2937ab6982ada8f8f46ba5799a79043ca14c087d24b456661bcc3591f23816.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 02:07 UTC
Archive ID
2a2937ab6982ada8
SHA-256
2a2937ab6982ada8f8f46ba5799a79043ca14c087d24b456661bcc3591f23816
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095391

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922438onnx/unsafe0.095391onnx/nsfw0.051993onnx/nsfl0.043398
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Pixelated animation of two figures holding a hostage, with sequential fire effects and text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:20 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,789 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 561

Review tags

  • fire effects (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • aggressive (mood, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • red objects (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • one hostage figure (subject, 0.80)
  • two figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • fire effects

Animation

  • sequential fire effects: small sparks → large flames → scattered embers → fading particles

Animation Summary

  • Fire effects progress from small sparks to large flames then scattered embers

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • horizontal of frames
  • text below each frame

Dense Caption

Two pixel-art figures in black attire hold a third figure; the central figure has white hair. The left figure holds red objects while the right figure grips the hostage's head. Sequential frames show increasing fire effects: small sparks (frame 1), large orange-yellow flames (frame 2), smaller scattered embers (frame 3), and minimal fading particles (frame 4). All figures have blank white faces with black eyes. Text "Hostage" appears below each frame in pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated animation of two figures holding a hostage, with sequential fire effects and text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • aggressive
  • chaotic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures hostage fire animation
  • pixel art hostage holding red objects
  • fire effects hostage text Hostage
  • black white red orange yellow pixel animation

Objects

  • red objects

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Fire effects progress from small sparks to large flames then scattered embers across sequential frames.
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of frames

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • two figures
  • one hostage figure

Visible Text

  • Hostage

Visually Supported Entities

  • Hostage

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • white hair
  • black attire
  • red objects
  • blank white faces
  • fire effects
  • text Hostage
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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
12683
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:07 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/12683.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010829171309id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/12683.gif