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Pixelated icon of a skeletal figure in yellow religious attire holding a brown cross, with 'Pope Buddy' text below on gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a skeletal figure in yellow religious attire holding a brown cross, with 'Pope Buddy' text below on gray background.

Pixelated icon of a skeletal figure in yellow religious attire holding a brown cross, with 'Pope Buddy' text below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Baller…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on solid gray background. Central figure is a white skull with black eye sockets and nose cavity, wearing a yellow bishop's mitre with brown cross on front. Figure holds brown wooden cross in left hand, wears yellow robe with black outline. Below figure, text reads 'Pope Buddy' in black and white pixelated font with white outline. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering and color bleeding.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a skeletal figure in yellow religious attire holding a brown cross, with 'Pope Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Machine
  • AOL AIM
  • Buddy Icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skeletal pope icon
  • yellow mitre cross
  • pope buddy pixel art
  • brown cross skull
  • gray background pixel icon
  • yellow robe cross
  • pope buddy text
  • pixel art skull cross

Visible Text

  • Pope Buddy

Wordwall

  • skeletal figure
  • yellow mitre
  • brown cross
  • white skull
  • yellow robe
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • black outline
  • brown cross on mitre
  • white eye sockets
  • brown wooden cross
  • pixel art
  • dithering
  • color bleeding
  • white outline
  • black eye sockets
  • yellow attire
  • text 'Pope Buddy'
  • low-resolution
  • solid background

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
5509
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/7c/7ca7dcabfcde0ea028a0bcb9f1ab65f72ce839dfea502e0e91cb4b71c92ca2fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Archive ID
7ca7dcabfcde0ea0
SHA-256
7ca7dcabfcde0ea028a0bcb9f1ab65f72ce839dfea502e0e91cb4b71c92ca2fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:14 UTC
Run
1078
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092086

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a skeletal figure in yellow religious attire holding a brown cross, with 'Pope Buddy' text below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,163 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,044, response 841

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • macabre (mood, 0.80)
  • brown cross (object, 0.80)
  • color bleeding (style, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skeletal figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on solid gray background. Central figure is a white skull with black eye sockets and nose cavity, wearing a yellow bishop's mitre with brown cross on front. Figure holds brown wooden cross in left hand, wears yellow robe with black outline. Below figure, text reads 'Pope Buddy' in black and white pixelated font with white outline. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering and color bleeding.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a skeletal figure in yellow religious attire holding a brown cross, with 'Pope Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Machine
  • AOL AIM
  • Buddy Icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • macabre
  • humorous

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  • yellow mitre cross
  • pope buddy pixel art
  • brown cross skull
  • gray background pixel icon
  • yellow robe cross
  • pope buddy text
  • pixel art skull cross

Objects

  • brown cross

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • color bleeding

Subjects

  • skeletal figure

Visible Text

  • Pope Buddy

Wordwall

  • skeletal figure
  • yellow mitre
  • brown cross
  • white skull
  • yellow robe
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • black outline
  • brown cross on mitre
  • white eye sockets
  • brown wooden cross
  • pixel art
  • dithering
  • color bleeding
  • white outline
  • black eye sockets
  • yellow attire
  • text 'Pope Buddy'
  • low-resolution
  • solid background
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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
5509
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 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/5509.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613133425id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/5509.gif