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Animated sequence of a yellow cartoon figure with white head holding a pink eraser, eraser and figure gradually disappear from frame to frame.

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Animated sequence of a yellow cartoon figure with white head holding a pink eraser, eraser and figure gradually disappear from frame to frame.

Animated sequence of a yellow cartoon figure with white head holding a pink eraser, eraser and figure gradually disappear from frame to frame. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eraser moves from top-right to top-left
  • figure's arms lower
  • eraser and figure disappear sequentially

Animation Summary

The pink eraser moves from top-right to top-left above the yellow figure, then the eraser and figure disappear sequentially from frame to frame, leaving only partial text fragments.

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Gray background. Yellow cartoon figure with white circular head and outstretched arms. Pink rectangular eraser held above figure's head. Text 'Erase Buddy' in white pixelated font below figure. Eraser moves from top-right to top-left, then disappears. Figure's arms lower, then figure disappears. Remaining text fragments 'Erase Buddy' with 'Erase' partially cut off. Final frame shows only small yellow figure fragment and partial 'Erase Buddy' text. Pixelated 8-bit style.

Description

Animated sequence of a yellow cartoon figure with white head holding a pink eraser, eraser and figure gradually disappear from frame to frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • 23724
  • ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon figure pink eraser
  • Erase Buddy text
  • gray background pixelated
  • erasing motion animation
  • 8-bit style buddy icon
  • partial text fragments
  • disappearing figure
  • humorous buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 23724
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 23724
  • 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

  • cartoon

Uncertain Text

  • Erase Buddy

Visible Text

  • Erase Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon figure
  • white circular head
  • outstretched arms
  • pink rectangular eraser
  • gray background
  • white pixelated text
  • Erase Buddy text
  • erasing motion
  • partial text fragments
  • 8-bit pixel art

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
23724
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2e4d1af25cf3da830b87e89816bdc392608574c90a392d01f856183cb7ef9da0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Archive ID
2e4d1af25cf3da83
SHA-256
2e4d1af25cf3da830b87e89816bdc392608574c90a392d01f856183cb7ef9da0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121402

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.904243onnx/unsafe0.121402onnx/nsfw0.079865onnx/nsfl0.041536
Enrichment records (1)
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Animated sequence of a yellow cartoon figure with white head holding a pink eraser, eraser and figure gradually disappear from frame to frame.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,099 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 1,017

Review tags

  • disappearing (action, 0.80)
  • erasing (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • pink eraser (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow cartoon figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • erasing
  • disappearing

Animation

  • eraser moves from top-right to top-left
  • figure's arms lower
  • eraser and figure disappear sequentially

Animation Summary

The pink eraser moves from top-right to top-left above the yellow figure, then the eraser and figure disappear sequentially from frame to frame, leaving only partial text fragments.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Gray background. Yellow cartoon figure with white circular head and outstretched arms. Pink rectangular eraser held above figure's head. Text 'Erase Buddy' in white pixelated font below figure. Eraser moves from top-right to top-left, then disappears. Figure's arms lower, then figure disappears. Remaining text fragments 'Erase Buddy' with 'Erase' partially cut off. Final frame shows only small yellow figure fragment and partial 'Erase Buddy' text. Pixelated 8-bit style.

Description

Animated sequence of a yellow cartoon figure with white head holding a pink eraser, eraser and figure gradually disappear from frame to frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • 23724
  • ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon figure pink eraser
  • Erase Buddy text
  • gray background pixelated
  • erasing motion animation
  • 8-bit style buddy icon
  • partial text fragments
  • disappearing figure
  • humorous buddy icon

Objects

  • pink eraser

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 23724
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 23724
  • 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
  • 8-bit
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • yellow cartoon figure
  • pink eraser

Uncertain Text

  • Erase Buddy

Visible Text

  • Erase Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon figure
  • white circular head
  • outstretched arms
  • pink rectangular eraser
  • gray background
  • white pixelated text
  • Erase Buddy text
  • erasing motion
  • partial text fragments
  • 8-bit pixel art
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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
23724
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:15 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/23724.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010806141515id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/23724.gif