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Animated sequence of black pixel shapes on gray background with "Snake" text beneath each frame, showing incremental corner and line variations.

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Animated sequence of black pixel shapes on gray background with "Snake" text beneath each frame, showing incremental corner and line variations.

Animated sequence of black pixel shapes on gray background with "Snake" text beneath each frame, showing incremental corner and line variations. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Animation Summary

Fifteen frames show incremental changes to black pixel shapes on gray background, with white "Snake" text below each frame. Shapes evolve from simple horizontal/vertical segments to more complex cornered forms while small surrounding dots appear at various positions across the sequence.

Composition

  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Fifteen distinct frames display a 16x16 grid of black pixels forming partial L-shapes and lines against a solid light gray background. Each frame has white sans-serif text reading "Snake" directly below the shape. The shapes evolve from simple horizontal/vertical segments to more complex cornered forms with small pixel dots appearing at various positions around the main structure across frames. All elements maintain consistent placement within the grid layout.

Description

Animated sequence of black pixel shapes on gray background with "Snake" text beneath each frame, showing incremental corner and line variations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 16183
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 16183
  • 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

  • 16183

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snake animation
  • pixel art snake shapes
  • gray background black white snake text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 16x16 grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 16x16 grid snake animation

Visible Text

  • Snake

Wordwall

  • black pixels on gray background
  • white "Snake" text below each shape
  • partial L-shapes and lines
  • small surrounding pixel dots

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
16183
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
931 bytes
Motion
Animated (18 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75e3bc432c397c80879e2efc6682e3b0a0065d7642098ff34f75dfb62b8adf9f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:44 UTC
Archive ID
75e3bc432c397c80
SHA-256
75e3bc432c397c80879e2efc6682e3b0a0065d7642098ff34f75dfb62b8adf9f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 09:00 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090930

OpenAI category scores

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Animated sequence of black pixel shapes on gray background with "Snake" text beneath each frame, showing incremental corner and line variations.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,533 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,329, response 666

Review tags

  • dot placement variation (action, 0.80)
  • shape evolution (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mechanical (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text labels (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel shapes (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shape evolution
  • dot placement variation

Animation Summary

Fifteen frames show incremental changes to black pixel shapes on gray background, with white "Snake" text below each frame. Shapes evolve from simple horizontal/vertical segments to more complex cornered forms while small surrounding dots appear at various positions across the sequence.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Fifteen distinct frames display a 16x16 grid of black pixels forming partial L-shapes and lines against a solid light gray background. Each frame has white sans-serif text reading "Snake" directly below the shape. The shapes evolve from simple horizontal/vertical segments to more complex cornered forms with small pixel dots appearing at various positions around the main structure across frames. All elements maintain consistent placement within the grid layout.

Description

Animated sequence of black pixel shapes on gray background with "Snake" text beneath each frame, showing incremental corner and line variations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 16183
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 16183
  • 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

  • 16183

Mood

  • neutral
  • mechanical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snake animation
  • pixel art snake shapes
  • gray background black white snake text

Objects

  • text labels

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 16x16 grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 16x16 grid snake animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • pixel shapes

Visible Text

  • Snake

Wordwall

  • black pixels on gray background
  • white "Snake" text below each shape
  • partial L-shapes and lines
  • small surrounding pixel dots
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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
16183
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:44 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/16183.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010607150647id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/16183.gif