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Pixelated icon shows a yellow hand holding a flag with red, white, and blue sections and a checkered pattern, with text below reading 'Save the MS flag'.

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Pixelated icon shows a yellow hand holding a flag with red, white, and blue sections and a checkered pattern, with text below reading 'Save the MS flag'.

Pixelated icon shows a yellow hand holding a flag with red, white, and blue sections and a checkered pattern, with text below reading 'Save the MS flag'. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned hand and flag
  • centered text below
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Gray background. Left side: yellow hand with black outline holding a flagpole. Flag has brown pole, blue top section with white checkered pattern, white middle section, red bottom section. Below flag: text 'Save the MS flag' in black and white pixelated font. Hand has small green detail on yellow surface. Flag is angled right. Text is centered below hand and flag. All elements are pixelated with black outlines.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a yellow hand holding a flag with red, white, and blue sections and a checkered pattern, with text below reading 'Save the MS flag'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • 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 source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • MS flag

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the ms flag
  • ms flag pixel art
  • yellow hand holding flag
  • blue checkered flag

Subjects

  • hand
  • flag

Visible Text

  • Save the MS flag

Wordwall

  • yellow hand
  • brown flagpole
  • blue checkered section
  • white middle section
  • red bottom section
  • gray background
  • black and white text
  • pixelated font
  • green detail on hand
  • flag angled right

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
12225
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a9fecf395305ec535296ca8823d0a3b2621e8465cc31323f0a6539eea401472.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 01:57 UTC
Archive ID
6a9fecf395305ec5
SHA-256
6a9fecf395305ec535296ca8823d0a3b2621e8465cc31323f0a6539eea401472
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083679

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916321onnx/unsafe0.083679onnx/nsfw0.045567onnx/nsfl0.038112
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Pixelated icon shows a yellow hand holding a flag with red, white, and blue sections and a checkered pattern, with text below reading 'Save the MS flag'.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,203 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 694

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • activist (mood, 0.80)
  • protest (mood, 0.80)
  • flagpole (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • flag (subject, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • brown
  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • left-aligned hand and flag
  • centered text below
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Gray background. Left side: yellow hand with black outline holding a flagpole. Flag has brown pole, blue top section with white checkered pattern, white middle section, red bottom section. Below flag: text 'Save the MS flag' in black and white pixelated font. Hand has small green detail on yellow surface. Flag is angled right. Text is centered below hand and flag. All elements are pixelated with black outlines.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a yellow hand holding a flag with red, white, and blue sections and a checkered pattern, with text below reading 'Save the MS flag'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • 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 source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • MS flag

Mood

  • protest
  • activist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the ms flag
  • ms flag pixel art
  • yellow hand holding flag
  • blue checkered flag

Objects

  • flagpole
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hand
  • flag

Visible Text

  • Save the MS flag

Wordwall

  • yellow hand
  • brown flagpole
  • blue checkered section
  • white middle section
  • red bottom section
  • gray background
  • black and white text
  • pixelated font
  • green detail on hand
  • flag angled right
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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
12225
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:57 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/12225.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020610155214id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/12225.gif