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Pixelated character in pink and orange attire with one eye, raised arm, and open mouth, standing above stylized text on gray background.

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Pixelated character in pink and orange attire with one eye, raised arm, and open mouth, standing above stylized text on gray background.

Pixelated character in pink and orange attire with one eye, raised arm, and open mouth, standing above stylized text on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ball…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • raising arm

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with pink torso, black accents, orange limbs, and one large white eye with black pupil; mouth open showing white teeth; right arm raised; standing on gray background; below character, stylized text reads "Metalman" in black and white pixels; no visible motion; composition centers character and text; style is 8-bit retro video game; colors include pink, orange, black, white, gray; background is solid gray; text is lowercase with stylized 'M' and 'a' characters.

Description

  • Pixelated character in pink and orange attire with one eye, raised arm, and open mouth, standing above stylized text on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8530
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8530
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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

  • 8530

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink character metalman
  • 8-bit metalman icon
  • metalman pixel art
  • pink orange character text
  • metalman 8-bit
  • character one eye metalman
  • metalman stylized text
  • pink metalman pixel

Visible Text

  • Metalman

Wordwall

  • pink torso
  • orange limbs
  • one eye
  • raised arm
  • open mouth
  • white teeth
  • gray background
  • stylized text
  • Metalman
  • 8-bit art
  • black accents
  • white pixels
  • lowercase text
  • retro game style
  • solid background
  • character pose
  • pixelated
  • text below character
  • orange feet
  • black belt

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
8530
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:46 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/52/529f519f587c15d9cab7868c62918931779cda2a48b58d2d75966cb7065d99e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Archive ID
529f519f587c15d9
SHA-256
529f519f587c15d9cab7868c62918931779cda2a48b58d2d75966cb7065d99e1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069514

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character in pink and orange attire with one eye, raised arm, and open mouth, standing above stylized text on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:37 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,551 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,054, response 764

Review tags

  • raising arm (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • exaggerated (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raising arm

Colors

  • pink
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with pink torso, black accents, orange limbs, and one large white eye with black pupil; mouth open showing white teeth; right arm raised; standing on gray background; below character, stylized text reads "Metalman" in black and white pixels; no visible motion; composition centers character and text; style is 8-bit retro video game; colors include pink, orange, black, white, gray; background is solid gray; text is lowercase with stylized 'M' and 'a' characters.

Description

  • Pixelated character in pink and orange attire with one eye, raised arm, and open mouth, standing above stylized text on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8530
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8530
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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

  • 8530

Mood

  • playful
  • exaggerated

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • 8-bit metalman icon
  • metalman pixel art
  • pink orange character text
  • metalman 8-bit
  • character one eye metalman
  • metalman stylized text
  • pink metalman pixel

Style

  • 8-bit
  • pixel art
  • retro video game

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Metalman

Wordwall

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  • orange limbs
  • one eye
  • raised arm
  • open mouth
  • white teeth
  • gray background
  • stylized text
  • Metalman
  • 8-bit art
  • black accents
  • white pixels
  • lowercase text
  • retro game style
  • solid background
  • character pose
  • pixelated
  • text below character
  • orange feet
  • black belt
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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
8530
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:46 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/8530.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612073345id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/8530.gif