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Pixel art animation of yellow-shirted figures on a bench with changing speech bubbles and poses, set against gray background.

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Pixel art animation of yellow-shirted figures on a bench with changing speech bubbles and poses, set against gray background.

Pixel art animation of yellow-shirted figures on a bench with changing speech bubbles and poses, set against gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Baller…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • speech bubbles change text
  • figures shift positions across frames

Animation Summary

Speech bubbles change from "BAD NEWS..." to "BOB'S DEAD", then "JON?", and finally "...KIDDING..." while figures shift positions across frames.

Composition

  • repeated bench scenes
  • speech bubble placement above figures

Dense Caption

Animated pixel art sequence shows four yellow-shirted figures seated on brown benches. First row: leftmost figure holds white object; second row: first bubble reads "BOB'S DEAD"; third row: figures shift positions (one stands, one sits); fourth row: bench empty with single figure. Speech bubbles change from "BAD NEWS..." to "BOB'S DEAD", then "JON?", and finally "...KIDDING...". All scenes have gray background with blue rectangular elements above benches.

Description

  • Pixel art animation of yellow-shirted figures on a bench with changing speech bubbles and poses, set against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM Portal
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow-shirted figures bench animation
  • bad news bob's dead joking speech bubbles
  • pixel art figure shifts gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • BAD NEWS...
  • BOB'S DEAD
  • JON?
  • ...KIDDING...

Wordwall

  • yellow-shirted figures
  • brown benches
  • gray background
  • blue rectangles
  • speech bubbles
  • "BAD NEWS..."
  • "BOB'S DEAD"
  • "JON?"
  • "...KIDDING..."
  • figure shifts positions

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
35362
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (17 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/542e315fa2c7ad45d095f65e3b9ab2897bba01c174b5c59775b8503cc97fa2d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Archive ID
542e315fa2c7ad45
SHA-256
542e315fa2c7ad45d095f65e3b9ab2897bba01c174b5c59775b8503cc97fa2d5
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 08:00 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022720

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.022720falseself-harm0.004696falseviolence/graphic0.001612falseharassment0.000664falseself-harm/intent0.000262falseharassment/threatening0.000033falsesexual0.000025falsehate0.000013falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falseillicit0.000005falseillicit/violent0.000003falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

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

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/violence1.000000textenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090452

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918991onnx/unsafe0.090452onnx/nsfw0.049829onnx/nsfl0.040624
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art animation of yellow-shirted figures on a bench with changing speech bubbles and poses, set against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,354 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,329, response 648

Review tags

  • changing speech bubbles (action, 0.80)
  • holding white object (action, 0.80)
  • shifting positions (action, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • white object (object, 0.80)
  • 2d animation (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue rectangles (subject, 0.80)
  • brown benches (subject, 0.80)
  • gray background (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow shirted figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding white object
  • shifting positions
  • changing speech bubbles

Animation

  • speech bubbles change text
  • figures shift positions across frames

Animation Summary

Speech bubbles change from "BAD NEWS..." to "BOB'S DEAD", then "JON?", and finally "...KIDDING..." while figures shift positions across frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • gray
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • repeated bench scenes
  • speech bubble placement above figures

Dense Caption

Animated pixel art sequence shows four yellow-shirted figures seated on brown benches. First row: leftmost figure holds white object; second row: first bubble reads "BOB'S DEAD"; third row: figures shift positions (one stands, one sits); fourth row: bench empty with single figure. Speech bubbles change from "BAD NEWS..." to "BOB'S DEAD", then "JON?", and finally "...KIDDING...". All scenes have gray background with blue rectangular elements above benches.

Description

  • Pixel art animation of yellow-shirted figures on a bench with changing speech bubbles and poses, set against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM Portal
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Mood

  • humorous
  • surreal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow-shirted figures bench animation
  • bad news bob's dead joking speech bubbles
  • pixel art figure shifts gray background

Objects

  • white object

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • 2D animation
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • yellow-shirted figures
  • brown benches
  • blue rectangles
  • gray background

Visible Text

  • BAD NEWS...
  • BOB'S DEAD
  • JON?
  • ...KIDDING...

Wordwall

  • yellow-shirted figures
  • brown benches
  • gray background
  • blue rectangles
  • speech bubbles
  • "BAD NEWS..."
  • "BOB'S DEAD"
  • "JON?"
  • "...KIDDING..."
  • figure shifts positions
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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
35362
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:20 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/35362.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011027064516id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/35362.gif