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Pixelated character holding a beer mug and German flag with 'German Buddy' text below on gray background.

Pixelated character holding a beer mug and German flag with 'German Buddy' text below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered above text
  • text left-aligned below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Single white-headed figure in red shirt, green vest, black pants. Left hand holds yellow-and-orange beer mug; right arm extended holding black-yellow-red striped flag (black top, yellow middle, red bottom). Below character: 'German' text with underscore on left, 'Buddy' text below it. All elements rendered in 8-bit style.

Description

  • Pixelated character holding a beer mug and German flag with 'German Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Machine
  • AIM portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • german buddy pixel art
  • beer mug flag german icon
  • pixelated character beer flag
  • german buddy text flag

Objects

  • flag

Visible Text

  • German
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • German flag (black-yellow-red stripes)

Wordwall

  • white head
  • red shirt
  • green vest
  • beer mug
  • German flag
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • text 'German'
  • text 'Buddy'
  • black-yellow-red stripes

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1482
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:20 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/48/483336abba0179c7f558c4ab865cec4c36150157eb1d311a731a88d56fe85458.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:20 UTC
Archive ID
483336abba0179c7
SHA-256
483336abba0179c7f558c4ab865cec4c36150157eb1d311a731a88d56fe85458
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.082527

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917473onnx/unsafe0.082527onnx/nsfw0.046703onnx/nsfl0.035824
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Pixelated character holding a beer mug and German flag with 'German Buddy' text below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,961 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,051, response 617

Review tags

  • holding beer mug (action, 0.80)
  • waving flag (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • beer mug (object, 0.80)
  • flag (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • white headed figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding beer mug
  • waving flag

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • red
  • green
  • black
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • character centered above text
  • text left-aligned below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Single white-headed figure in red shirt, green vest, black pants. Left hand holds yellow-and-orange beer mug; right arm extended holding black-yellow-red striped flag (black top, yellow middle, red bottom). Below character: 'German' text with underscore on left, 'Buddy' text below it. All elements rendered in 8-bit style.

Description

  • Pixelated character holding a beer mug and German flag with 'German Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Machine
  • AIM portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • german buddy pixel art
  • beer mug flag german icon
  • pixelated character beer flag
  • german buddy text flag

Objects

  • beer mug
  • flag

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • white-headed figure

Visible Text

  • German
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • German flag (black-yellow-red stripes)

Wordwall

  • white head
  • red shirt
  • green vest
  • beer mug
  • German flag
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • text 'German'
  • text 'Buddy'
  • black-yellow-red stripes
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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
1482
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:20 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://www.ballericons.com/icon/1482.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612135840id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1482.gif