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Pixelated blue figure with white head holding a small blue object, alternating between two text labels below.

Pixelated blue figure with white head holding a small blue object, alternating between two text labels below. Animated 49×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • small blue object changes state
  • six distinct states

Animation Summary

Small blue object held by blue figure changes through six distinct states: blue circle, blue plus sign, blue circle with blue cross, blue cross, blue 'x', blue dot.

Composition

  • three

Dense Caption

Gray background. Blue figure with white head and blue clothing. Figure holds a small blue object that changes: first a blue circle, then a blue plus sign, then a blue circle with a blue cross, then a blue cross, then a blue 'x', then a blue dot. Text below figure alternates between "Winter-fresh" and "Buddy". Figure's pose is static. Text is white, pixelated, and underlined. Animation cycles through six distinct object states.

Description

  • Pixelated blue figure with white head holding a small blue object, alternating between two text labels below.

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 collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue figure white head blue clothing
  • Winter-fresh Buddy text
  • small blue object six states
  • pixelated gray background
  • underlined text animation
  • blue circle blue plus sign
  • blue cross blue 'x'
  • 2000s digital animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Winter-fresh
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • blue figure
  • white head
  • blue clothing
  • gray background
  • blue circle
  • blue plus sign
  • blue cross
  • blue 'x'
  • blue dot
  • Winter-fresh
  • Buddy
  • underlined text
  • pixelated
  • six object states

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
15371
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:31 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
49×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/52d2f027f34729175f754001998074241fcf206f8c23c80854a9a5b9175a8b40.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:31 UTC
Archive ID
52d2f027f3472917
SHA-256
52d2f027f34729175f754001998074241fcf206f8c23c80854a9a5b9175a8b40
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.021638

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.021638falseself-harm0.007413falsesexual0.000870falseself-harm/intent0.000286falseself-harm/instructions0.000225falseviolence/graphic0.000073falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.097621

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912036onnx/unsafe0.097621onnx/nsfw0.058502onnx/nsfl0.039119
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue figure with white head holding a small blue object, alternating between two text labels below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:55 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,975 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,078, response 893

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • small blue object changes state (other, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • blue figure (subject, 0.80)
  • small blue object (subject, 0.80)
  • white head (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • small blue object changes state
  • six distinct states

Animation Summary

Small blue object held by blue figure changes through six distinct states: blue circle, blue plus sign, blue circle with blue cross, blue cross, blue 'x', blue dot.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • three

Dense Caption

Gray background. Blue figure with white head and blue clothing. Figure holds a small blue object that changes: first a blue circle, then a blue plus sign, then a blue circle with a blue cross, then a blue cross, then a blue 'x', then a blue dot. Text below figure alternates between "Winter-fresh" and "Buddy". Figure's pose is static. Text is white, pixelated, and underlined. Animation cycles through six distinct object states.

Description

  • Pixelated blue figure with white head holding a small blue object, alternating between two text labels below.

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 collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue figure white head blue clothing
  • Winter-fresh Buddy text
  • small blue object six states
  • pixelated gray background
  • underlined text animation
  • blue circle blue plus sign
  • blue cross blue 'x'
  • 2000s digital animation

Objects

  • small blue object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • blue figure
  • white head
  • small blue object

Visible Text

  • Winter-fresh
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • blue figure
  • white head
  • blue clothing
  • gray background
  • blue circle
  • blue plus sign
  • blue cross
  • blue 'x'
  • blue dot
  • Winter-fresh
  • Buddy
  • underlined text
  • pixelated
  • six object states
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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
15371
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:31 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/15371.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140806id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/15371.gif