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Pixel art icon of a figure with brown skin and black hair holding a yellow bell, with 'Ore Buddy' text below on gray background.

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Pixel art icon of a figure with brown skin and black hair holding a yellow bell, with 'Ore Buddy' text below on gray background.

Pixel art icon of a figure with brown skin and black hair holding a yellow bell, with 'Ore Buddy' text below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on solid gray background. Central figure has brown skin tone, black hair, and black clothing. Left hand holds large black circular object with white center; right hand holds yellow bell-shaped object. Below figure, text reads 'Ore Buddy' in blocky pixel font with black outlines and white fill. All elements are low-resolution pixelated. No visible motion or animation. Figure's pose is upright with arms extended. Colors include gray, black, brown, white, and yellow.

Description

  • Pixel art icon of a figure with brown skin and black hair holding a yellow bell, with 'Ore Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 1988
  • 2002
  • 2007
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • Ballericons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • attitude
  • celebrities
  • college
  • holidays
  • humor
  • 2000s
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1988

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • 2000s
  • 2002
  • 2007
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1988
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1988

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown skin pixel art
  • yellow bell icon
  • Ore Buddy text
  • black circular object
  • gray background pixel art
  • buddy icon
  • blocky font text
  • low-resolution icon

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Ore Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown skin tone
  • black hair
  • black clothing
  • yellow bell
  • black circular object
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • Ore Buddy
  • upright pose
  • arms extended
  • low-resolution
  • no motion
  • white center
  • black outlines

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1988
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:45 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/6663071a21f7cffbe13deb10482693d7f38f9a6879feecac78d80a165039da6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Archive ID
6663071a21f7cffb
SHA-256
6663071a21f7cffbe13deb10482693d7f38f9a6879feecac78d80a165039da6e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004792

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
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Overall label
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Pixel art icon of a figure with brown skin and black hair holding a yellow bell, with 'Ore Buddy' text below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:40 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,093 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,049, response 762

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black circular object (object, 0.80)
  • yellow bell (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • brown
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on solid gray background. Central figure has brown skin tone, black hair, and black clothing. Left hand holds large black circular object with white center; right hand holds yellow bell-shaped object. Below figure, text reads 'Ore Buddy' in blocky pixel font with black outlines and white fill. All elements are low-resolution pixelated. No visible motion or animation. Figure's pose is upright with arms extended. Colors include gray, black, brown, white, and yellow.

Description

  • Pixel art icon of a figure with brown skin and black hair holding a yellow bell, with 'Ore Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 1988
  • 2002
  • 2007
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • Ballericons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • attitude
  • celebrities
  • college
  • holidays
  • humor
  • 2000s
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1988

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • 2000s
  • 2002
  • 2007
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1988
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1988

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown skin pixel art
  • yellow bell icon
  • Ore Buddy text
  • black circular object
  • gray background pixel art
  • buddy icon
  • blocky font text
  • low-resolution icon

Objects

  • yellow bell
  • black circular object

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Ore Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown skin tone
  • black hair
  • black clothing
  • yellow bell
  • black circular object
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • Ore Buddy
  • upright pose
  • arms extended
  • low-resolution
  • no motion
  • white center
  • black outlines
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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
1988
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:45 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://www.ballericons.com/icon/1988.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613182937id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1988.gif