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Pixelated water ski scene with yellow-clad figure on blue water background, text "Water Ski" below.

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Pixelated water ski scene with yellow-clad figure on blue water background, text "Water Ski" below.

Pixelated water ski scene with yellow-clad figure on blue water background, text "Water Ski" below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIF…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; static image with identical elements in multiple sections.

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • one figure in bottom section
  • text below figure
  • gray background corner

Dense Caption

Blue water background with scattered dark blue pixel patterns. Yellow figure with white circular head on black-and-white water ski platform. Blue rectangular object held in right hand, red-and-white striped line extending from it. Text "Water Ski" in pixelated font below the figure. Two identical figures side-by-side in top section, one figure in bottom section. Gray background in bottom-right corner. All elements rendered in 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated water ski scene with yellow-clad figure on blue water background, text "Water Ski" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • water ski pixel art
  • yellow figure blue water
  • pixelated text water ski
  • 8-bit water ski icon
  • blue rectangular object water ski
  • red and white striped line
  • gray background corner
  • water ski platform

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26500
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26500
  • 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

  • Water Ski

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white circular head
  • blue water background
  • red-and-white striped line
  • pixelated text
  • water ski platform
  • blue rectangular object
  • gray background corner
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • text "Water Ski"

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
26500
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:29 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5bd1fbe7a9cda55bbbfa71a8499bfd0fe6e63cfc89213cff886d148d91f4ff54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Archive ID
5bd1fbe7a9cda55b
SHA-256
5bd1fbe7a9cda55bbbfa71a8499bfd0fe6e63cfc89213cff886d148d91f4ff54
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091391

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911197onnx/unsafe0.091391onnx/nsfw0.051356onnx/nsfl0.040035
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated water ski scene with yellow-clad figure on blue water background, text "Water Ski" below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,181 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 932

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • skiing (action, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • red and white striped line (object, 0.80)
  • water ski platform (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • limited color palette (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • white circular head (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • skiing

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; static image with identical elements in multiple sections.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • one figure in bottom section
  • text below figure
  • gray background corner

Dense Caption

Blue water background with scattered dark blue pixel patterns. Yellow figure with white circular head on black-and-white water ski platform. Blue rectangular object held in right hand, red-and-white striped line extending from it. Text "Water Ski" in pixelated font below the figure. Two identical figures side-by-side in top section, one figure in bottom section. Gray background in bottom-right corner. All elements rendered in 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated water ski scene with yellow-clad figure on blue water background, text "Water Ski" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • water ski pixel art
  • yellow figure blue water
  • pixelated text water ski
  • 8-bit water ski icon
  • blue rectangular object water ski
  • red and white striped line
  • gray background corner
  • water ski platform

Objects

  • blue rectangular object
  • red-and-white striped line
  • water ski platform

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26500
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26500
  • 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

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • limited color palette

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • white circular head

Visible Text

  • Water Ski

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white circular head
  • blue water background
  • red-and-white striped line
  • pixelated text
  • water ski platform
  • blue rectangular object
  • gray background corner
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • text "Water Ski"
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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
26500
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:29 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/26500.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010810144507id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/26500.gif