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Pixelated character with yellow body and white face has arm on fire, shown in multiple animation frames with flame variations and text below.

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Pixelated character with yellow body and white face has arm on fire, shown in multiple animation frames with flame variations and text below.

Pixelated character with yellow body and white face has arm on fire, shown in multiple animation frames with flame variations and text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • animation

Animation

  • flame size changes
  • flame position shifts

Animation Summary

Character's arm flames change size and position across frames: small particles, larger flame, smaller flame in top ; flame on arm, flame on body in bottom

Composition

  • text below
  • exclamation marks above

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated character with white face, black hair, yellow body, and orange-yellow arm flames. Top row shows three frames: left frame has small flame particles, middle frame has larger flame, right frame has smaller flame. Bottom row shows two frames: left frame has flame on arm, right frame has flame on body. Text below each frame reads 'arm on fire' in white pixelated font. Double exclamation marks above each frame. Flame animation changes across frames.

Description

Pixelated character with yellow body and white face has arm on fire, shown in multiple animation frames with flame variations and text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • arm on fire pixel art
  • flame animation character
  • gray background pixel art
  • double exclamation marks text
  • yellow body white face
  • pixelated character flames
  • text arm on fire
  • flame variations

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's arm flames change size and position across frames: small particles, larger flame, smaller flame in top row; flame on arm, flame on body in bottom row.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26406
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26406
  • 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

  • arm on fire
  • !!

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • white face
  • black hair
  • yellow body
  • arm on fire
  • flame animation
  • double exclamation marks
  • pixelated font
  • text 'arm on fire'
  • flame variations

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
26406
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/78744386e67e8b5cd3aebfba024943081a3823055583cda43470cba536ad8649.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Archive ID
78744386e67e8b5c
SHA-256
78744386e67e8b5cd3aebfba024943081a3823055583cda43470cba536ad8649
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Run
1055
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084046

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922903onnx/unsafe0.084046onnx/nsfw0.048840onnx/nsfl0.035206
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with yellow body and white face has arm on fire, shown in multiple animation frames with flame variations and text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,438 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,128, response 926

Review tags

  • animation (action, 0.80)
  • flaming (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • flames (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flaming
  • animation

Animation

  • flame size changes
  • flame position shifts

Animation Summary

Character's arm flames change size and position across frames: small particles, larger flame, smaller flame in top ; flame on arm, flame on body in bottom

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • text below
  • exclamation marks above

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated character with white face, black hair, yellow body, and orange-yellow arm flames. Top row shows three frames: left frame has small flame particles, middle frame has larger flame, right frame has smaller flame. Bottom row shows two frames: left frame has flame on arm, right frame has flame on body. Text below each frame reads 'arm on fire' in white pixelated font. Double exclamation marks above each frame. Flame animation changes across frames.

Description

Pixelated character with yellow body and white face has arm on fire, shown in multiple animation frames with flame variations and text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • chaotic
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • arm on fire pixel art
  • flame animation character
  • gray background pixel art
  • double exclamation marks text
  • yellow body white face
  • pixelated character flames
  • text arm on fire
  • flame variations

Objects

  • flames

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's arm flames change size and position across frames: small particles, larger flame, smaller flame in top row; flame on arm, flame on body in bottom row.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26406
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26406
  • 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

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • arm on fire
  • !!

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • white face
  • black hair
  • yellow body
  • arm on fire
  • flame animation
  • double exclamation marks
  • pixelated font
  • text 'arm on fire'
  • flame variations
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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
26406
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:29 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/26406.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010808202613id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/26406.gif