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Pixelated icon of a person holding a large green tuba with a yellow bell, standing against a gray background with 'Tuba Buddy' text below.

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Pixelated icon of a person holding a large green tuba with a yellow bell, standing against a gray background with 'Tuba Buddy' text below.

Pixelated icon of a person holding a large green tuba with a yellow bell, standing against a gray background with 'Tuba Buddy' text below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ba…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon on solid gray background. Central figure holds large green tuba with yellow bell; tuba has dark green circular center. Figure wears white shirt with gray checkered pattern and green pants with yellow accents. Text below icon reads 'Tuba Buddy' in black and white pixelated font. Icon is static with no visible animation. Colors include gray, green, yellow, white, black, and dark green. Composition is centered with text directly beneath the figure.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a person holding a large green tuba with a yellow bell, standing against a gray background with 'Tuba Buddy' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5516
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5516
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tuba buddy pixelated icon
  • green tuba yellow bell
  • gray background tuba figure
  • pixelated figure holding tuba
  • tuba buddy text icon
  • green pants yellow accents
  • checkered shirt tuba
  • 8-bit tuba icon

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Tuba Buddy

Wordwall

  • tuba
  • green
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • pixelated
  • static
  • text
  • bell
  • shirt
  • pants
  • checkered
  • figure
  • centered
  • gray background
  • black text
  • white text
  • yellow accents
  • dark green center
  • 8-bit

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
5516
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
837 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4fa860128b81861fa4de5d18bde597fe647bfca2fed082aa70a6c6c0661052ad.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Archive ID
4fa860128b81861f
SHA-256
4fa860128b81861fa4de5d18bde597fe647bfca2fed082aa70a6c6c0661052ad
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095722

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a person holding a large green tuba with a yellow bell, standing against a gray background with 'Tuba Buddy' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,913 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,047, response 744

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)
  • tuba (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • green
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • dark green

Composition

  • centered
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon on solid gray background. Central figure holds large green tuba with yellow bell; tuba has dark green circular center. Figure wears white shirt with gray checkered pattern and green pants with yellow accents. Text below icon reads 'Tuba Buddy' in black and white pixelated font. Icon is static with no visible animation. Colors include gray, green, yellow, white, black, and dark green. Composition is centered with text directly beneath the figure.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a person holding a large green tuba with a yellow bell, standing against a gray background with 'Tuba Buddy' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5516
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5516
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • green tuba yellow bell
  • gray background tuba figure
  • pixelated figure holding tuba
  • tuba buddy text icon
  • green pants yellow accents
  • checkered shirt tuba
  • 8-bit tuba icon

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  • tuba

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • static

Subjects

  • figure
  • tuba

Visible Text

  • Tuba Buddy

Wordwall

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  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
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  • static
  • text
  • bell
  • shirt
  • pants
  • checkered
  • figure
  • centered
  • gray background
  • black text
  • white text
  • yellow accents
  • dark green center
  • 8-bit
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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
5516
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 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/5516.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613134504id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/5516.gif