Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above 'Speak Ebonics' text on gray background

Permanent icon record

Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above 'Speak Ebonics' text on gray background

Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above 'Speak Ebonics' text on gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three figures
  • text below each figure

Dense Caption

Gray background with three identical pixelated figures in yellow shirts and white heads. Each figure holds a speech bubble with text: top-left bubble reads 'WORD', top-right bubble reads 'YO', bottom bubble reads 'HOME'. Below each figure, the text 'Speak Ebonics' appears in pixelated font. All figures are identical in pose and clothing. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above 'Speak Ebonics' text on gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26512
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26512
  • 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

  • yellow shirt white head speech bubble
  • WORD YO HOME Speak Ebonics
  • gray background pixel art
  • humorous text icon

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three figures arranged in grid

Visible Text

  • WORD
  • YO
  • HOME
  • Speak Ebonics

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white head
  • speech bubble
  • WORD
  • YO
  • HOME
  • Speak Ebonics
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • text

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
26512
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:30 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/61e929db5258dc68c8fecd615863f8dfa878d599150172ce857953a0fb6aa107.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:30 UTC
Archive ID
61e929db5258dc68
SHA-256
61e929db5258dc68c8fecd615863f8dfa878d599150172ce857953a0fb6aa107
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094151

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909800onnx/unsafe0.094151onnx/nsfw0.052347onnx/nsfl0.041804
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above 'Speak Ebonics' text on gray background

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,846 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 673

Review tags

  • holding speech bubble (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • white headed figure (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow shirted figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding speech bubble

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • three figures
  • text below each figure

Dense Caption

Gray background with three identical pixelated figures in yellow shirts and white heads. Each figure holds a speech bubble with text: top-left bubble reads 'WORD', top-right bubble reads 'YO', bottom bubble reads 'HOME'. Below each figure, the text 'Speak Ebonics' appears in pixelated font. All figures are identical in pose and clothing. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above 'Speak Ebonics' text on gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26512
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26512
  • 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

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow shirt white head speech bubble
  • WORD YO HOME Speak Ebonics
  • gray background pixel art
  • humorous text icon

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three figures arranged in grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • yellow-shirted figure
  • white-headed figure

Visible Text

  • WORD
  • YO
  • HOME
  • Speak Ebonics

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white head
  • speech bubble
  • WORD
  • YO
  • HOME
  • Speak Ebonics
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • text
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "61e929db5258dc68c8fecd615863f8dfa878d599150172ce857953a0fb6aa107",
  "description": "Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above \u0027Speak Ebonics\u0027 text on gray background",
  "denseCaption": "Gray background with three identical pixelated figures in yellow shirts and white heads. Each figure holds a speech bubble with text: top-left bubble reads \u0027WORD\u0027, top-right bubble reads \u0027YO\u0027, bottom bubble reads \u0027HOME\u0027. Below each figure, the text \u0027Speak Ebonics\u0027 appears in pixelated font. All figures are identical in pose and clothing. The image is static with no animation.",
  "wordwall": [
    "yellow shirt",
    "white head",
    "speech bubble",
    "WORD",
    "YO",
    "HOME",
    "Speak Ebonics",
    "gray background",
    "pixelated",
    "text"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "WORD",
    "YO",
    "HOME",
    "Speak Ebonics"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "yellow-shirted figure",
    "white-headed figure"
  ],
  "actions": [
    "holding speech bubble"
  ],
  "objects": [
    "speech bubble"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "gray",
    "yellow",
    "white",
    "black"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixel art",
    "low-resolution",
    "text-heavy"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "three figures",
    "text below each figure"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "humorous",
    "playful"
  ],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "quarantined composition: three figures arranged in grid"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons",
    "observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26512",
    "observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon",
    "observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26512",
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "yellow shirt white head speech bubble",
    "WORD YO HOME Speak Ebonics",
    "gray background pixel art",
    "humorous text icon"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "yellow shirted figure",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: yellow-shirted figure"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white headed figure",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white-headed figure"
    },
    {
      "tag": "holding speech bubble",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: holding speech bubble"
    },
    {
      "tag": "speech bubble",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: speech bubble"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixel art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixel art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "low resolution",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: low-resolution"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text heavy",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-heavy"
    },
    {
      "tag": "humorous",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: humorous"
    },
    {
      "tag": "playful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: playful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gray"
    },
    {
      "tag": "yellow",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: yellow"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "61e929db5258dc68c8fecd615863f8dfa878d599150172ce857953a0fb6aa107",
        "description": "Pixelated yellow figure with white head holding speech bubble text above \u0027Speak Ebonics\u0027 text on gray background",
        "denseCaption": "Gray background with three identical pixelated figures in yellow shirts and white heads. Each figure holds a speech bubble with text: top-left bubble reads \u0027WORD\u0027, top-right bubble reads \u0027YO\u0027, bottom bubble reads \u0027HOME\u0027. Below each figure, the text \u0027Speak Ebonics\u0027 appears in pixelated font. All figures are identical in pose and clothing. The image is static with no animation.",
        "wordwall": [
          "yellow shirt",
          "white head",
          "speech bubble",
          "WORD",
          "YO",
          "HOME",
          "Speak Ebonics",
          "gray background",
          "pixelated",
          "text"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "WORD",
          "YO",
          "HOME",
          "Speak Ebonics"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "yellow-shirted figure",
          "white-headed figure"
        ],
        "actions": [
          "holding speech bubble"
        ],
        "objects": [
          "speech bubble"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "gray",
          "yellow",
          "white",
          "black"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixel art",
          "low-resolution",
          "text-heavy"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "three figures arranged in grid",
          "text below each figure"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "humorous",
          "playful"
        ],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons",
          "observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26512",
          "observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon",
          "observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26512",
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "yellow shirt white head speech bubble",
          "WORD YO HOME Speak Ebonics",
          "gray background pixel art",
          "humorous text icon"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceballericons0.90wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · collection-identity · identity · curated-homogeneous · source-seed
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
26512
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:30 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/26512.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010808203312id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/26512.gif