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Pixelated image with gray background showing yellow figure wearing conical hat and black outline, with text above and below.

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Pixelated image with gray background showing yellow figure wearing conical hat and black outline, with text above and below.

Pixelated image with gray background showing yellow figure wearing conical hat and black outline, with text above and below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nati…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text above and below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top text: 'Blackanese' in black and white pixelated font with black underline. Center: yellow figure with black outline wearing light yellow conical hat, arms extended outward, pixelated rendering. Bottom text: 'Buddy' in black and white pixelated font. No visible motion or animation. Figure has no facial features. Text is non-redundant and fully legible.

Description

  • Pixelated image with gray background showing yellow figure wearing conical hat and black outline, with text above and below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 21249
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 21249
  • 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blackanese buddy icon
  • yellow figure conical hat
  • pixelated text blackanese buddy
  • gray background buddy icon
  • conical hat yellow figure
  • buddy icon blackanese
  • yellow figure blackanese
  • buddy icon yellow figure

Visible Text

  • Blackanese
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • conical hat
  • yellow figure
  • black outline
  • text 'Blackanese'
  • text 'Buddy'
  • pixelated font
  • no facial features
  • arms extended
  • light yellow hat
  • black underline
  • non-redundant text
  • no animation
  • figure silhouette
  • pixelated rendering
  • centered composition
  • black and white text
  • yellow clothing
  • black text outline
  • gray backdrop

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
21249
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:54 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b44b84ba1bab44679e7f691229e461c4523d259e3ecb013eb33aa890ef35c0f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:54 UTC
Archive ID
3b44b84ba1bab446
SHA-256
3b44b84ba1bab44679e7f691229e461c4523d259e3ecb013eb33aa890ef35c0f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088828

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911172onnx/unsafe0.088828onnx/nsfw0.051696onnx/nsfl0.037131
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Pixelated image with gray background showing yellow figure wearing conical hat and black outline, with text above and below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,880 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 771

Review tags

  • arms extended (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light yellow (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • conical hat (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms extended

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • light yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text above and below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top text: 'Blackanese' in black and white pixelated font with black underline. Center: yellow figure with black outline wearing light yellow conical hat, arms extended outward, pixelated rendering. Bottom text: 'Buddy' in black and white pixelated font. No visible motion or animation. Figure has no facial features. Text is non-redundant and fully legible.

Description

  • Pixelated image with gray background showing yellow figure wearing conical hat and black outline, with text above and below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 21249
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 21249
  • 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blackanese buddy icon
  • yellow figure conical hat
  • pixelated text blackanese buddy
  • gray background buddy icon
  • conical hat yellow figure
  • buddy icon blackanese
  • yellow figure blackanese
  • buddy icon yellow figure

Objects

  • conical hat

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • conical hat

Visible Text

  • Blackanese
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • conical hat
  • yellow figure
  • black outline
  • text 'Blackanese'
  • text 'Buddy'
  • pixelated font
  • no facial features
  • arms extended
  • light yellow hat
  • black underline
  • non-redundant text
  • no animation
  • figure silhouette
  • pixelated rendering
  • centered composition
  • black and white text
  • yellow clothing
  • black text outline
  • gray backdrop
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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
21249
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:54 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/21249.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010808012408id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/21249.gif