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Pixelated icon shows a yellow-shirted figure with outstretched arms under a question mark, labeled 'Idiot' below.

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Pixelated icon shows a yellow-shirted figure with outstretched arms under a question mark, labeled 'Idiot' below.

Pixelated icon shows a yellow-shirted figure with outstretched arms under a question mark, labeled 'Idiot' below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Pat…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical alignment: question mark → figure → text

Dense Caption

Gray background. Black and white pixelated question mark above center. Below it, a stylized human figure with black outline: white circular head, yellow shirt, black-outlined arms extended horizontally. White text "Idiot" in blocky font beneath the figure; first letter 'I' is larger than subsequent letters. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a yellow-shirted figure with outstretched arms under a question mark, labeled 'Idiot' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1929
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1929
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 1929

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • question mark idiot figure
  • yellow shirt question mark text
  • idiot blocky text pixelated

Objects

  • question mark

Subjects

  • human figure

Visible Text

  • Idiot

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • question mark above figure
  • yellow-shirted figure
  • white circular head
  • outstretched arms
  • blocky text "Idiot"
  • first letter larger

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1929
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
535 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69838b6b08c780b2f714559da46ac8dbc47b8763503753bda2b6c4fc5737fb38.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:32 UTC
Archive ID
69838b6b08c780b2
SHA-256
69838b6b08c780b2f714559da46ac8dbc47b8763503753bda2b6c4fc5737fb38
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079229

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon shows a yellow-shirted figure with outstretched arms under a question mark, labeled 'Idiot' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,210 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,051, response 622

Review tags

  • outstretched arms (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • question mark (object, 0.80)
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  • human figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • outstretched arms

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • vertical alignment: question mark → figure → text

Dense Caption

Gray background. Black and white pixelated question mark above center. Below it, a stylized human figure with black outline: white circular head, yellow shirt, black-outlined arms extended horizontally. White text "Idiot" in blocky font beneath the figure; first letter 'I' is larger than subsequent letters. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a yellow-shirted figure with outstretched arms under a question mark, labeled 'Idiot' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1929
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1929
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 1929

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • question mark idiot figure
  • yellow shirt question mark text
  • idiot blocky text pixelated

Objects

  • question mark

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • human figure

Visible Text

  • Idiot

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • question mark above figure
  • yellow-shirted figure
  • white circular head
  • outstretched arms
  • blocky text "Idiot"
  • first letter larger
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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
1929
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:32 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/1929.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613133633id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1929.gif