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Pixelated text on gray background reads "I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!" in black and white block letters.

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Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
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Pixelated text on gray background reads "I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!" in black and white block letters.

Pixelated text on gray background reads "I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!" in black and white block letters. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • four-line vertical arrangement

Dense Caption

Gray background with four lines of pixelated text. First line: 'I DONT' (black letters, white outline). Second line: 'HAVE A' (black letters, white outline). Third line: 'BUDDY' (black letters, white outline). Fourth line: 'ICON!!!!!' (black letters, white outline with six exclamation marks). All text uses blocky 8-bit style. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Pixelated text on gray background reads "I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!" in black and white block letters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 23676
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 23676
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM portal
  • buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text gray background
  • I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON
  • 8-bit blocky font exclamation marks
  • four line text arrangement

Visible Text

  • I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • four lines of text
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!
  • black and white color scheme

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
23676
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:14 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/6797b7f00fd5088998819005f4cf39ef614dafa6a0710523dc6f45f244ab9710.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Archive ID
6797b7f00fd50889
SHA-256
6797b7f00fd5088998819005f4cf39ef614dafa6a0710523dc6f45f244ab9710
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097342

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.902658onnx/unsafe0.097342onnx/nsfw0.061598onnx/nsfl0.035743
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Pixelated text on gray background reads "I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!" in black and white block letters.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,392 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 663

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • exclamatory (mood, 0.80)
  • frustrated (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • four-line vertical arrangement

Dense Caption

Gray background with four lines of pixelated text. First line: 'I DONT' (black letters, white outline). Second line: 'HAVE A' (black letters, white outline). Third line: 'BUDDY' (black letters, white outline). Fourth line: 'ICON!!!!!' (black letters, white outline with six exclamation marks). All text uses blocky 8-bit style. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Pixelated text on gray background reads "I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!" in black and white block letters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 23676
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 23676
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM portal
  • buddy icons

Mood

  • frustrated
  • exclamatory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text gray background
  • I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON
  • 8-bit blocky font exclamation marks
  • four line text arrangement

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • four lines of text
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • I DONT HAVE A BUDDY ICON!!!!!
  • black and white color scheme
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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
23676
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:14 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/23676.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011027123826id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/23676.gif