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Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below.

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Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below.

Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • lower body changes from dark gray to red
  • small red tail appears
  • red horns appear

Animation Summary

Character starts with dark gray lower body, transitions to red lower body, then gains small red tail, and finally gains red horns while maintaining consistent skull face and robe.

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid gray background

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below. The character has four distinct states: first state shows dark gray lower body; second state shows red lower body; third state shows red lower body with small red tail; fourth state shows red lower body with small red tail and red horns. All states have consistent white skull face, black eyes, red robe with yellow accents, and 'Goth' text below. Background is solid gray. Character is centered in each frame. Animation changes only lower body, tail, and horns.

Description

Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull face goth icon
  • red robe goth character
  • goth icon with tail
  • goth icon with horns
  • pixel art goth character
  • goth icon animation
  • skull face goth animation
  • red goth character animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 41765
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 41765
  • 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

  • Goth

Visually Supported Entities

  • Goth

Wordwall

  • white skull face
  • black eyes
  • red robe
  • yellow accents
  • gray background
  • Goth text
  • dark gray lower body
  • red lower body
  • small red tail
  • red horns
  • pixel art
  • standing
  • four states

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
41765
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/5457c1e55dd67e37475c9273c2a6b8195704cd09efd61c1b267adff2693b45cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Archive ID
5457c1e55dd67e37
SHA-256
5457c1e55dd67e37475c9273c2a6b8195704cd09efd61c1b267adff2693b45cb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.083808

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919226onnx/unsafe0.083808onnx/nsfw0.043891onnx/nsfl0.039917
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,814 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 892

Review tags

  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gothic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red horns (object, 0.80)
  • red robe (object, 0.80)
  • small red tail (object, 0.80)
  • yellow accents (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skull faced character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing

Animation

  • lower body changes from dark gray to red
  • small red tail appears
  • red horns appear

Animation Summary

Character starts with dark gray lower body, transitions to red lower body, then gains small red tail, and finally gains red horns while maintaining consistent skull face and robe.

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid gray background

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below. The character has four distinct states: first state shows dark gray lower body; second state shows red lower body; third state shows red lower body with small red tail; fourth state shows red lower body with small red tail and red horns. All states have consistent white skull face, black eyes, red robe with yellow accents, and 'Goth' text below. Background is solid gray. Character is centered in each frame. Animation changes only lower body, tail, and horns.

Description

Pixel art character with white skull face and black eyes, wearing red robe with yellow accents, standing on gray background with 'Goth' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • gothic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull face goth icon
  • red robe goth character
  • goth icon with tail
  • goth icon with horns
  • pixel art goth character
  • goth icon animation
  • skull face goth animation
  • red goth character animation

Objects

  • red robe
  • yellow accents
  • small red tail
  • red horns

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 41765
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 41765
  • 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

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • skull-faced character

Visible Text

  • Goth

Visually Supported Entities

  • Goth

Wordwall

  • white skull face
  • black eyes
  • red robe
  • yellow accents
  • gray background
  • Goth text
  • dark gray lower body
  • red lower body
  • small red tail
  • red horns
  • pixel art
  • standing
  • four 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
41765
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:50 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/41765.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020610164642id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/41765.gif