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Pixel art of a person with brown hair playing a red electric guitar, wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants, in two poses with 'Van Halen' text below.

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Pixel art of a person with brown hair playing a red electric guitar, wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants, in two poses with 'Van Halen' text below.

Pixel art of a person with brown hair playing a red electric guitar, wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants, in two poses with 'Van Halen' text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left pose shows running stance with left leg forward
  • right pose shows standing stance with feet together

Animation Summary

  • Two poses of a person playing guitar: left pose is running stance with left leg forward, right pose is standing stance with feet together.

Composition

  • two poses side-by-side
  • text below poses
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Two pixel art poses of a person with brown hair, white face, yellow shirt, blue pants, red shoes, and red electric guitar. Left pose shows running stance with left leg forward; right pose shows standing stance with feet together. Both have dark brown guitar pickguard. Text below reads 'Van Halen' in white pixelated font on gray background. Colors include brown, white, yellow, blue, red, dark brown, gray. Style is 8-bit pixel art with blocky rendering. No visible expression details. Background is solid gray.

Description

Pixel art of a person with brown hair playing a red electric guitar, wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants, in two poses with 'Van Halen' text below.

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: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 14420

Named Entities

  • Van Halen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Van Halen guitar player
  • 8-bit Van Halen icon
  • running Van Halen pose
  • standing Van Halen pose
  • Van Halen pixel art
  • red electric guitar icon
  • Van Halen text icon
  • guitar player Van Halen

Visible Text

  • Van Halen

Visually Supported Entities

  • Van Halen

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white face
  • yellow shirt
  • blue pants
  • red shoes
  • red electric guitar
  • dark brown pickguard
  • gray background
  • Van Halen text
  • running pose
  • standing pose
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky rendering
  • white pixelated font
  • left leg forward
  • feet together
  • solid gray background

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
14420
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b17123a98e91c0c346c9582f95263a2282457a53743e2cb836cb315f090fae2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:15 UTC
Archive ID
4b17123a98e91c0c
SHA-256
4b17123a98e91c0c346c9582f95263a2282457a53743e2cb836cb315f090fae2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096157

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art of a person with brown hair playing a red electric guitar, wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants, in two poses with 'Van Halen' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,895 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 837

Review tags

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  • running (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • electric guitar (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky rendering (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • playing guitar
  • running
  • standing

Animation

  • left pose shows running stance with left leg forward
  • right pose shows standing stance with feet together

Animation Summary

  • Two poses of a person playing guitar: left pose is running stance with left leg forward, right pose is standing stance with feet together.

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • dark brown
  • gray

Composition

  • two poses side-by-side
  • text below poses
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Two pixel art poses of a person with brown hair, white face, yellow shirt, blue pants, red shoes, and red electric guitar. Left pose shows running stance with left leg forward; right pose shows standing stance with feet together. Both have dark brown guitar pickguard. Text below reads 'Van Halen' in white pixelated font on gray background. Colors include brown, white, yellow, blue, red, dark brown, gray. Style is 8-bit pixel art with blocky rendering. No visible expression details. Background is solid gray.

Description

Pixel art of a person with brown hair playing a red electric guitar, wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants, in two poses with 'Van Halen' text below.

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: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 14420

Named Entities

  • Van Halen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • 8-bit Van Halen icon
  • running Van Halen pose
  • standing Van Halen pose
  • Van Halen pixel art
  • red electric guitar icon
  • Van Halen text icon
  • guitar player Van Halen

Objects

  • electric guitar

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky rendering

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Van Halen

Visually Supported Entities

  • Van Halen

Wordwall

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  • white face
  • yellow shirt
  • blue pants
  • red shoes
  • red electric guitar
  • dark brown pickguard
  • gray background
  • Van Halen text
  • running pose
  • standing pose
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky rendering
  • white pixelated font
  • left leg forward
  • feet together
  • solid gray background
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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
14420
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:15 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/14420.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612083026id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/14420.gif