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Pixelated character with red cap, blue overalls, and yellow buttons; white mustache; gray background; text 'Mario' below.

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Pixelated character with red cap, blue overalls, and yellow buttons; white mustache; gray background; text 'Mario' below.

Pixelated character with red cap, blue overalls, and yellow buttons; white mustache; gray background; text 'Mario' below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a character wearing a red cap with an orange 'M' symbol, brown hair visible beneath the cap, a white mustache, gray eyes, a blue shirt with red sleeves, yellow buttons on the chest, and dark pants. The character is centered against a solid light gray background. Below the figure, the word 'Mario' appears in bold black-and-white pixelated text with a single underscore underline.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, blue overalls, and yellow buttons; white mustache; gray background; text 'Mario' below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mario

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Prospect Wayback page replay www.geocities.com/hotdude729
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • hotdude729
  • 37780
  • Ballericons

Named Entities

  • Mario

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap mario pixel art
  • mario 8-bit character
  • pixelated mario text below
  • mario orange m symbol

Visible Text

  • Mario

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mario

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • orange M symbol
  • brown hair
  • white mustache
  • gray eyes
  • blue shirt
  • red sleeves
  • yellow buttons
  • dark pants
  • light gray background
  • pixel art style
  • text 'Mario'
  • underscore underline

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
37780
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:35 UTC

Original record Source download

Prospect Wayback page replay www.geocities.com/hotdude729

Source title
37780
Category
hotdude729
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 15:54 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/40/40e350fb430b6c8a2e19ea6ae21bc196fa080f9dea35b6e3bb9971e2cf2389e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:35 UTC
Archive ID
40e350fb430b6c8a
SHA-256
40e350fb430b6c8a2e19ea6ae21bc196fa080f9dea35b6e3bb9971e2cf2389e4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068029

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character with red cap, blue overalls, and yellow buttons; white mustache; gray background; text 'Mario' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:12 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,557 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,068, response 622

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • gray
  • blue
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a character wearing a red cap with an orange 'M' symbol, brown hair visible beneath the cap, a white mustache, gray eyes, a blue shirt with red sleeves, yellow buttons on the chest, and dark pants. The character is centered against a solid light gray background. Below the figure, the word 'Mario' appears in bold black-and-white pixelated text with a single underscore underline.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, blue overalls, and yellow buttons; white mustache; gray background; text 'Mario' below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mario

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Prospect Wayback page replay www.geocities.com/hotdude729
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • hotdude729
  • 37780
  • Ballericons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Mario

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap mario pixel art
  • mario 8-bit character
  • pixelated mario text below
  • mario orange m symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Mario

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mario

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • orange M symbol
  • brown hair
  • white mustache
  • gray eyes
  • blue shirt
  • red sleeves
  • yellow buttons
  • dark pants
  • light gray background
  • pixel art style
  • text 'Mario'
  • underscore underline
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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
37780
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:35 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/37780.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011222163456id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/37780.gif