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Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Japanese flag with red circle on white background, text below reads 'Japanese Buddy' in blocky font.

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Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Japanese flag with red circle on white background, text below reads 'Japanese Buddy' in blocky font.

Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Japanese flag with red circle on white background, text below reads 'Japanese Buddy' in blocky font. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Waybac…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character on left
  • flag extends right
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has black outline, white face with single black eye dot, yellow torso. Holds brown pole with triangular white flag featuring solid red circular center. Text below: 'Japanese' in bold pixelated letters with white outline, 'Buddy' directly beneath it in same font and color scheme. All elements are static.

Description

Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Japanese flag with red circle on white background, text below reads 'Japanese Buddy' in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 7477
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 7477
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • japanese buddy pixel art
  • yellow shirt character holding flag
  • red circle white flag text japanese buddy
  • pixelated character with single eye dot

Objects

  • flag

Visible Text

  • Japanese
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Japanese flag

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white face
  • single black eye dot
  • brown pole
  • triangular flag
  • red circle center
  • gray background
  • pixel art style
  • text below
  • 'Japanese'
  • 'Buddy'

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
7477
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5f306dcd21ffe5b0e38b91a90190b1a1e1eb6679c5268a6219d1a0ce9931ba57.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Archive ID
5f306dcd21ffe5b0
SHA-256
5f306dcd21ffe5b0e38b91a90190b1a1e1eb6679c5268a6219d1a0ce9931ba57
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082722

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917278onnx/unsafe0.082722onnx/nsfw0.044370onnx/nsfl0.038352
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Japanese flag with red circle on white background, text below reads 'Japanese Buddy' in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:32 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,996 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 670

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • flag (object, 0.80)
  • pole (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • centered character on left
  • flag extends right
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has black outline, white face with single black eye dot, yellow torso. Holds brown pole with triangular white flag featuring solid red circular center. Text below: 'Japanese' in bold pixelated letters with white outline, 'Buddy' directly beneath it in same font and color scheme. All elements are static.

Description

Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Japanese flag with red circle on white background, text below reads 'Japanese Buddy' in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 7477
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 7477
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • japanese buddy pixel art
  • yellow shirt character holding flag
  • red circle white flag text japanese buddy
  • pixelated character with single eye dot

Objects

  • flag
  • pole

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Japanese
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Japanese flag

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white face
  • single black eye dot
  • brown pole
  • triangular flag
  • red circle center
  • gray background
  • pixel art style
  • text below
  • 'Japanese'
  • 'Buddy'
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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
7477
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:41 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/7477.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010817160604id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/7477.gif