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Pixelated character in blue and white checkered shirt with arms raised, below text reading 'T Mac' on gray background.

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Pixelated character in blue and white checkered shirt with arms raised, below text reading 'T Mac' on gray background.

Pixelated character in blue and white checkered shirt with arms raised, below text reading 'T Mac' on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Ico…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character above text

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has dark brown skin tone, black hair, and a mustache. Wearing blue and white checkered sleeveless shirt. Arms extended outward with hands open; right hand is slightly higher than left. Below character: text 'T Mac' in pixelated font—'T' is tall black-and-white blocky letter with underscore beneath it, 'M', 'a', 'c' are smaller black letters on white background. All elements rendered in 8-bit style.

Description

  • Pixelated character in blue and white checkered shirt with arms raised, below text reading 'T Mac' on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5173
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5173
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 5173
  • ballericons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character t mac
  • t mac checkered shirt arms raised
  • gray background pixel text
  • 8-bit t mac icon

Visible Text

  • T Mac

Visually Supported Entities

  • T Mac

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • dark brown skin
  • black hair
  • mustache
  • blue and white checkered shirt
  • arms extended
  • right hand higher than left
  • T Mac text
  • underscore under T

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
5173
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/301e0c774c32e65d01dca55139f084a5662967a6bbaeac9f92734bb54cb0ab36.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Archive ID
301e0c774c32e65d
SHA-256
301e0c774c32e65d01dca55139f084a5662967a6bbaeac9f92734bb54cb0ab36
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074823

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925177onnx/unsafe0.074823onnx/nsfw0.039642onnx/nsfl0.035181
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Pixelated character in blue and white checkered shirt with arms raised, below text reading 'T Mac' on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:11 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,557 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 652

Review tags

  • arms raised (action, 0.80)
  • hands open (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered shirt (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms raised
  • hands open

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • brown
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered character above text

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has dark brown skin tone, black hair, and a mustache. Wearing blue and white checkered sleeveless shirt. Arms extended outward with hands open; right hand is slightly higher than left. Below character: text 'T Mac' in pixelated font—'T' is tall black-and-white blocky letter with underscore beneath it, 'M', 'a', 'c' are smaller black letters on white background. All elements rendered in 8-bit style.

Description

  • Pixelated character in blue and white checkered shirt with arms raised, below text reading 'T Mac' on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5173
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5173
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 5173
  • ballericons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character t mac
  • t mac checkered shirt arms raised
  • gray background pixel text
  • 8-bit t mac icon

Objects

  • checkered shirt

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • T Mac

Visually Supported Entities

  • T Mac

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • dark brown skin
  • black hair
  • mustache
  • blue and white checkered shirt
  • arms extended
  • right hand higher than left
  • T Mac text
  • underscore under T
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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
5173
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:20 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/5173.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011223203341id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/5173.gif