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Pixelated graphic with stylized text and a blue wave-like shape on a gray background, below which reads "Beat L.A.!" in blocky font.

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Pixelated graphic with stylized text and a blue wave-like shape on a gray background, below which reads "Beat L.A.!" in blocky font.

Pixelated graphic with stylized text and a blue wave-like shape on a gray background, below which reads "Beat L.A.!" in blocky font. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Balleric…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal banner
  • text above wave shape
  • golden circle to right of wave
  • text below banner

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated graphic on a light gray background. The upper portion features a stylized, curved banner with a maroon border. Inside the banner, the text "Beat L.A." is rendered in a gradient of beige and brown tones with black outlines. A blue wave-like shape spans horizontally across the banner, partially obscuring the text. To the right of the wave, a golden circular shape is visible. Below the banner, the text "Beat L.A.!" appears in a blocky, pixelated font with black and white pixels. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with stylized text and a blue wave-like shape on a gray background, below which reads "Beat L.A.!" in blocky font.

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 18501
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 18501
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beat l.a. pixelated banner
  • blue wave golden circle text
  • retro digital beat l.a. graphic
  • gray background blocky font
  • maroon bordered text banner
  • beat l.a. blue wave icon
  • pixelated wave shape text
  • golden circle blue wave banner

Visible Text

  • Beat L.A.!
  • Beat L.A.

Wordwall

  • pixelated graphic
  • maroon border
  • beige text
  • black outlines
  • blue wave shape
  • golden circle
  • gray background
  • blocky font
  • retro digital style
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
18501
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/53/536f2b3a67ff2a35a8295ea15d290e1564292b02c31e62f9784cd617f40eee8d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:19 UTC
Archive ID
536f2b3a67ff2a35
SHA-256
536f2b3a67ff2a35a8295ea15d290e1564292b02c31e62f9784cd617f40eee8d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.070982

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.070982falseillicit0.001506falseharassment/threatening0.000817falseharassment0.000813falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000039falseviolence/graphic0.000036falsehate0.000017falseillicit/violent0.000017falseself-harm0.000012falsehate/threatening0.000008falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falsesexual/minors0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073506

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926494onnx/unsafe0.073506onnx/nsfw0.043388onnx/nsfl0.030119
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated graphic with stylized text and a blue wave-like shape on a gray background, below which reads "Beat L.A.!" in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,816 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,055, response 930

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • maroon (color, 0.80)
  • assertive (mood, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • banner (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • golden circle (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)
  • wave shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • maroon
  • beige
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • golden

Composition

  • horizontal banner
  • text above wave shape
  • golden circle to right of wave
  • text below banner

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated graphic on a light gray background. The upper portion features a stylized, curved banner with a maroon border. Inside the banner, the text "Beat L.A." is rendered in a gradient of beige and brown tones with black outlines. A blue wave-like shape spans horizontally across the banner, partially obscuring the text. To the right of the wave, a golden circular shape is visible. Below the banner, the text "Beat L.A.!" appears in a blocky, pixelated font with black and white pixels. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with stylized text and a blue wave-like shape on a gray background, below which reads "Beat L.A.!" in blocky font.

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 18501
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 18501
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • confident
  • assertive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beat l.a. pixelated banner
  • blue wave golden circle text
  • retro digital beat l.a. graphic
  • gray background blocky font
  • maroon bordered text banner
  • beat l.a. blue wave icon
  • pixelated wave shape text
  • golden circle blue wave banner

Objects

  • banner
  • wave shape
  • golden circle

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • wave shape
  • golden circle

Visible Text

  • Beat L.A.!
  • Beat L.A.

Wordwall

  • pixelated graphic
  • maroon border
  • beige text
  • black outlines
  • blue wave shape
  • golden circle
  • gray background
  • blocky font
  • retro digital style
  • limited color palette
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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
18501
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:19 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://ballericons.com/icon/18501.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010615083015id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/18501.gif