Pixel art of a yellow figure with white head and red dot, surrounded by black corner brackets on gray background; text bubbles change across frames.

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Pixel art of a yellow figure with white head and red dot, surrounded by black corner brackets on gray background; text bubbles change across frames.

Pixel art of a yellow figure with white head and red dot, surrounded by black corner brackets on gray background; text bubbles change across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Animation

  • speech bubbles change from frame to frame

Animation Summary

  • Speech bubbles change across frames from 'WHAT THE..' to 'WHO PUT' to 'THIS HERE?' while figure and background remain static.

Composition

  • four by four

Dense Caption

Gray background features four rows of four identical black L-shaped corner brackets forming grid cells. Each cell contains a small yellow figure with white circular head and outstretched arms, plus one red dot to the right. Top row shows three figures with speech bubbles: 'WHAT THE..', 'WHO PUT', 'THIS HERE?'. Bottom-left cell has 'THIS HERE?' bubble; other cells show no text. Figures remain static except for changing text bubbles across frames. All elements are pixelated 8-bit style.

Description

Pixel art of a yellow figure with white head and red dot, surrounded by black corner brackets on gray background; text bubbles change across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure white head red dot
  • gray background black corner brackets
  • text bubbles WHAT THE WHO PUT THIS HERE
  • pixel art speech bubble changes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid of four rows by four columns

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • Hidden Camera
  • WHAT THE..
  • WHO PUT
  • THIS HERE?

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • red dot
  • black corner brackets
  • gray background
  • speech bubbles
  • pixel art
  • text bubbles change

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
26549
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:30 UTC

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
33615
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:06 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.9 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/301e1b9aec9d1d4da054f56710d33f3f08a2b5d53c1b048d5829ddc4cede7762.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:30 UTC
Archive ID
301e1b9aec9d1d4d
SHA-256
301e1b9aec9d1d4da054f56710d33f3f08a2b5d53c1b048d5829ddc4cede7762
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.107263

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906212onnx/unsafe0.107263onnx/nsfw0.065708onnx/nsfl0.041555
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art of a yellow figure with white head and red dot, surrounded by black corner brackets on gray background; text bubbles change across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,363 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 860

Review tags

  • text bubble changes across frames (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • black corner brackets (object, 0.80)
  • gray background (object, 0.80)
  • red dot (object, 0.80)
  • speech bubbles change from frame to frame (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • text bubble changes across frames

Animation

  • speech bubbles change from frame to frame

Animation Summary

  • Speech bubbles change across frames from 'WHAT THE..' to 'WHO PUT' to 'THIS HERE?' while figure and background remain static.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • four by four

Dense Caption

Gray background features four rows of four identical black L-shaped corner brackets forming grid cells. Each cell contains a small yellow figure with white circular head and outstretched arms, plus one red dot to the right. Top row shows three figures with speech bubbles: 'WHAT THE..', 'WHO PUT', 'THIS HERE?'. Bottom-left cell has 'THIS HERE?' bubble; other cells show no text. Figures remain static except for changing text bubbles across frames. All elements are pixelated 8-bit style.

Description

Pixel art of a yellow figure with white head and red dot, surrounded by black corner brackets on gray background; text bubbles change across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26549
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 33615
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure white head red dot
  • gray background black corner brackets
  • text bubbles WHAT THE WHO PUT THIS HERE
  • pixel art speech bubble changes

Objects

  • red dot
  • black corner brackets
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid of four rows by four columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics

Subjects

  • yellow figure with white circular head and outstretched arms

Visible Text

  • Hidden Camera
  • WHAT THE..
  • WHO PUT
  • THIS HERE?

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • red dot
  • black corner brackets
  • gray background
  • speech bubbles
  • pixel art
  • text bubbles change
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Full source records (2)

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
26549
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:30 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

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
33615
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:06 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