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Pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline in gray frame, showing four sequential animation states with increasing fragmentation.

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Pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline in gray frame, showing four sequential animation states with increasing fragmentation.

Pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline in gray frame, showing four sequential animation states with increasing fragmentation. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • fragmentation progression
  • dissolving

Animation Summary

  • Four show a yellow-orange object fragmenting from intact to nearly dissolved, with text "Bad" and "Reception" below each frame

Composition

  • centered object
  • text below

Dense Caption

Four sequential animation frames of a pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline inside a gray frame. First frame: intact yellow shape with dark curved top. Second frame: yellow shape slightly fragmented. Third frame: yellow shape heavily fragmented with scattered pixels. Fourth frame: yellow shape nearly dissolved into scattered pixels. All frames have white background. Text below each frame reads "Bad" and "Reception" in pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline in gray frame, showing four sequential animation states with increasing fragmentation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow orange fragmenting object
  • bad reception animation
  • pixelated yellow object animation
  • animation
  • gray frame white background
  • bad reception text
  • fragmentation animation
  • yellow orange pixelated object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping
  • quarantined animationSummary: Four sequential frames show a yellow-orange object fragmenting from intact to nearly dissolved, with text "Bad" and "Reception" below each frame.
  • quarantined retrieval: four frame animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Bad
  • Reception

Wordwall

  • yellow and orange pixelated object
  • dark outline
  • gray frame
  • white background
  • four animation states
  • fragmentation progression
  • text "Bad" below
  • text "Reception" below
  • pixelated font

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
10519
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 23:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/776af4a6ef2ab652d1e673d0e671c13a8fead0d1c8f0a7890964bc1a5dba1786.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 23:49 UTC
Archive ID
776af4a6ef2ab652
SHA-256
776af4a6ef2ab652d1e673d0e671c13a8fead0d1c8f0a7890964bc1a5dba1786
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:39 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083290

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920231onnx/unsafe0.083290onnx/nsfw0.048871onnx/nsfl0.034418
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline in gray frame, showing four sequential animation states with increasing fragmentation.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:54 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,473 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 975

Review tags

  • dissolving (action, 0.80)
  • fragmenting (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • unsettling (mood, 0.80)
  • gray frame (object, 0.80)
  • white background (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • fragmenting yellow orange object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • fragmenting
  • dissolving

Animation

  • fragmentation progression
  • dissolving

Animation Summary

  • Four show a yellow-orange object fragmenting from intact to nearly dissolved, with text "Bad" and "Reception" below each frame

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • dark
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered object
  • text below

Dense Caption

Four sequential animation frames of a pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline inside a gray frame. First frame: intact yellow shape with dark curved top. Second frame: yellow shape slightly fragmented. Third frame: yellow shape heavily fragmented with scattered pixels. Fourth frame: yellow shape nearly dissolved into scattered pixels. All frames have white background. Text below each frame reads "Bad" and "Reception" in pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow and orange object with dark outline in gray frame, showing four sequential animation states with increasing fragmentation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • unsettling
  • dissolving

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow orange fragmenting object
  • bad reception animation
  • pixelated yellow object animation
  • animation
  • gray frame white background
  • bad reception text
  • fragmentation animation
  • yellow orange pixelated object

Objects

  • gray frame
  • white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping
  • quarantined animationSummary: Four sequential frames show a yellow-orange object fragmenting from intact to nearly dissolved, with text "Bad" and "Reception" below each frame.
  • quarantined retrieval: four frame animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 10519
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • fragmenting yellow-orange object

Visible Text

  • Bad
  • Reception

Wordwall

  • yellow and orange pixelated object
  • dark outline
  • gray frame
  • white background
  • four animation states
  • fragmentation progression
  • text "Bad" below
  • text "Reception" below
  • pixelated font
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Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceballericons0.90wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · collection-identity · identity · curated-homogeneous · source-seed
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
10519
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 23:49 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/10519.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612081928id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/10519.gif