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Pixel art icon shows a figure with red headwear, yellow shoulder pads, and a white torso holding a microphone stand, with 'Be Alternative' text below.

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Pixel art icon shows a figure with red headwear, yellow shoulder pads, and a white torso holding a microphone stand, with 'Be Alternative' text below.

Pixel art icon shows a figure with red headwear, yellow shoulder pads, and a white torso holding a microphone stand, with 'Be Alternative' text below. 49×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure
  • microphone stand to right of figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on light gray background. Central figure has red headwear with black outline, white torso, and yellow shoulder pads with black outlines. Figure holds a gray microphone stand with black top. Below figure, 'Be' text in black and white pixelated font, followed by 'Alternative' in black pixelated font. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

Pixel art icon shows a figure with red headwear, yellow shoulder pads, and a white torso holding a microphone stand, with 'Be Alternative' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red headwear yellow shoulder pads microphone stand
  • Be Alternative pixel art
  • figure holding microphone stand
  • gray background pixel art

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Be
  • Alternative

Wordwall

  • red headwear
  • yellow shoulder pads
  • white torso
  • gray microphone stand
  • light gray background
  • pixel art
  • Be Alternative text
  • black and white font
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
5996
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
49×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/6745536afd2cfe9a295b870578b5f465bcc7d7751adb1d4254f0df845d46fa3b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Archive ID
6745536afd2cfe9a
SHA-256
6745536afd2cfe9a295b870578b5f465bcc7d7751adb1d4254f0df845d46fa3b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093724

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906276onnx/unsafe0.093724onnx/nsfw0.061149onnx/nsfl0.032575
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Pixel art icon shows a figure with red headwear, yellow shoulder pads, and a white torso holding a microphone stand, with 'Be Alternative' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:19 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,498 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,049, response 667

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone stand (object, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure
  • microphone stand to right of figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on light gray background. Central figure has red headwear with black outline, white torso, and yellow shoulder pads with black outlines. Figure holds a gray microphone stand with black top. Below figure, 'Be' text in black and white pixelated font, followed by 'Alternative' in black pixelated font. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

Pixel art icon shows a figure with red headwear, yellow shoulder pads, and a white torso holding a microphone stand, with 'Be Alternative' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red headwear yellow shoulder pads microphone stand
  • Be Alternative pixel art
  • figure holding microphone stand
  • gray background pixel art

Objects

  • microphone stand

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Be
  • Alternative

Wordwall

  • red headwear
  • yellow shoulder pads
  • white torso
  • gray microphone stand
  • light gray background
  • pixel art
  • Be Alternative text
  • black and white font
  • dithering
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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
5996
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:29 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://www.ballericons.com/icon/5996.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612135931id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/5996.gif