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Pixel art of a yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard holding a purple donut, under text reading PURPLE IS and A FRUIT! with Homer below.

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Pixel art of a yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard holding a purple donut, under text reading PURPLE IS and A FRUIT! with Homer below.

Pixel art of a yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard holding a purple donut, under text reading PURPLE IS and A FRUIT! with Homer below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • Character holds purple donut; text above changes from PURPLE IS to A FRUIT!.

Composition

  • centered characters
  • text above and below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top-left text: PURPLE IS. Top-right text: A FRUIT!. Center-left: yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard, white shirt, yellow arms, holding purple donut with brown center. Center-right: same character holding purple donut, but text above reads A FRUIT! instead of PURPLE IS. Bottom text: Homer under both characters. Pixelated style. No animation.

Description

Pixel art of a yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard holding a purple donut, under text reading PURPLE IS and A FRUIT! with Homer below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Named Entities

  • Homer

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Homer purple donut
  • purple is a fruit Homer
  • Homer donut text
  • pixel art Homer fruit
  • Homer purple donut text
  • purple donut Homer
  • Homer fruit text
  • donut purple Homer

Visible Text

  • PURPLE IS
  • A FRUIT!
  • Homer

Visually Supported Entities

  • Homer

Wordwall

  • yellow-skinned character
  • brown hair
  • brown beard
  • white shirt
  • purple donut
  • brown center
  • gray background
  • PURPLE IS text
  • A FRUIT! text
  • Homer text
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
28213
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47c33ae15ba9e9833a82643fbcf2b2945def50eb56636ffe042a2174a87242fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:42 UTC
Archive ID
47c33ae15ba9e983
SHA-256
47c33ae15ba9e9833a82643fbcf2b2945def50eb56636ffe042a2174a87242fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081096

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art of a yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard holding a purple donut, under text reading PURPLE IS and A FRUIT! with Homer below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,925 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 729

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • purple donut (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • yellow skinned character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation Summary

  • Character holds purple donut; text above changes from PURPLE IS to A FRUIT!.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • centered characters
  • text above and below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top-left text: PURPLE IS. Top-right text: A FRUIT!. Center-left: yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard, white shirt, yellow arms, holding purple donut with brown center. Center-right: same character holding purple donut, but text above reads A FRUIT! instead of PURPLE IS. Bottom text: Homer under both characters. Pixelated style. No animation.

Description

Pixel art of a yellow-skinned character with brown hair and beard holding a purple donut, under text reading PURPLE IS and A FRUIT! with Homer below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Mood

  • humorous

Named Entities

  • Homer

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Homer purple donut
  • purple is a fruit Homer
  • Homer donut text
  • pixel art Homer fruit
  • Homer purple donut text
  • purple donut Homer
  • Homer fruit text
  • donut purple Homer

Objects

  • purple donut

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • yellow-skinned character

Visible Text

  • PURPLE IS
  • A FRUIT!
  • Homer

Visually Supported Entities

  • Homer

Wordwall

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  • brown hair
  • brown beard
  • white shirt
  • purple donut
  • brown center
  • gray background
  • PURPLE IS text
  • A FRUIT! text
  • Homer text
  • pixelated style
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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
28213
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:42 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/28213.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010827193531id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/28213.gif