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A pixelated icon features a blue helmet with yellow accents and a central yellow lightning bolt symbol on a white background.

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A pixelated icon features a blue helmet with yellow accents and a central yellow lightning bolt symbol on a white background.

A pixelated icon features a blue helmet with yellow accents and a central yellow lightning bolt symbol on a white background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation elements present; appears to be a single static frame.

Composition

  • centered
  • helmet occupies most frame

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated digital image with a blue helmet shape featuring yellow decorative elements along the top edge. A large yellow lightning bolt symbol is centered on the helmet's front. The helmet has a blue outline and blue side extensions. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited color palette of blue, yellow, and white. The helmet design includes a curved top with a patterned blue and white section. The lightning bolt is stylized with a sharp point and angular lines. The overall composition is centered with the helmet occupying most of the frame. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated icon features a blue helmet with yellow accents and a central yellow lightning bolt symbol on a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue helmet yellow lightning bolt
  • yellow lightning bolt blue helmet
  • pixelated helmet lightning symbol
  • blue and yellow helmet icon
  • retro digital lightning helmet
  • helmet with yellow accents
  • yellow lightning bolt symbol
  • blue helmet white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a single static frame with no visible animation elements.

Wordwall

  • blue helmet
  • yellow lightning bolt
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • blue and yellow color scheme
  • central symbol
  • stylized lightning
  • helmet with side extensions
  • yellow accents on helmet top
  • retro digital appearance

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
23724
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:34 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77c0b9b0fd9ad718169feaccafbc3ee2d61a463e5e873e182b5471d54e1aaf23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Archive ID
77c0b9b0fd9ad718
SHA-256
77c0b9b0fd9ad718169feaccafbc3ee2d61a463e5e873e182b5471d54e1aaf23
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1051
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077211

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922789onnx/unsafe0.077211onnx/nsfl0.038969onnx/nsfw0.038242
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated icon features a blue helmet with yellow accents and a central yellow lightning bolt symbol on a white background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,170 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,024, response 667

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stylized symbol (style, 0.80)
  • helmet (subject, 0.80)
  • lightning bolt (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation elements present; appears to be a single static frame.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • helmet occupies most frame

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated digital image with a blue helmet shape featuring yellow decorative elements along the top edge. A large yellow lightning bolt symbol is centered on the helmet's front. The helmet has a blue outline and blue side extensions. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited color palette of blue, yellow, and white. The helmet design includes a curved top with a patterned blue and white section. The lightning bolt is stylized with a sharp point and angular lines. The overall composition is centered with the helmet occupying most of the frame. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated icon features a blue helmet with yellow accents and a central yellow lightning bolt symbol on a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue helmet yellow lightning bolt
  • yellow lightning bolt blue helmet
  • pixelated helmet lightning symbol
  • blue and yellow helmet icon
  • retro digital lightning helmet
  • helmet with yellow accents
  • yellow lightning bolt symbol
  • blue helmet white background

Objects

  • helmet
  • lightning bolt

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a single static frame with no visible animation elements.

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • stylized symbol

Subjects

  • helmet
  • lightning bolt

Wordwall

  • blue helmet
  • yellow lightning bolt
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • blue and yellow color scheme
  • central symbol
  • stylized lightning
  • helmet with side extensions
  • yellow accents on helmet top
  • retro digital appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceimg0.80wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · broad · observation-category
Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
23724
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/23724.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111127152354id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/23724.gif