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Pixelated character in blue shirt with speech bubble text above, labeled B2S below, displayed in three variations with differing speech bubble content.

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Pixelated character in blue shirt with speech bubble text above, labeled B2S below, displayed in three variations with differing speech bubble content.

Pixelated character in blue shirt with speech bubble text above, labeled B2S below, displayed in three variations with differing speech bubble content. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • speech bubble content changes

Animation Summary

Speech bubble content changes between variations: top-left and bottom icons show 'B2S' with lightning bolt, top-right shows 'B2S' with square symbol.

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below
  • speech bubble above

Dense Caption

Three identical pixelated character icons in blue shirts with white faces and black outlines appear on a gray background. Each icon has 'B2S' in white pixelated text below. The top-left icon has a speech bubble with 'B2S' and a lightning bolt symbol. The top-right icon has a speech bubble with 'B2S' and a square symbol. The bottom icon has a speech bubble with 'B2S' and a lightning bolt symbol. All icons share the same character pose and background.

Description

Pixelated character in blue shirt with speech bubble text above, labeled B2S below, displayed in three variations with differing speech bubble content.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • B2S blue shirt character
  • B2S lightning bolt speech bubble
  • B2S square symbol speech bubble
  • pixelated character gray background
  • B2S three variations
  • B2S speech bubble variations
  • B2S blue shirt gray background
  • B2S pixel art

Objects

  • speech bubble

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • B2S

Wordwall

  • B2S
  • blue shirt
  • gray background
  • speech bubble
  • lightning bolt
  • square symbol
  • pixelated character
  • white text
  • three variations

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
49096
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
528 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7e21945a2e4057dbe20567503893e9c7882b1aa017a623d01204ed66e9cc9731.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:17 UTC
Archive ID
7e21945a2e4057db
SHA-256
7e21945a2e4057dbe20567503893e9c7882b1aa017a623d01204ed66e9cc9731
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:17 UTC
Run
1085
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076451

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924935onnx/unsafe0.076451onnx/nsfw0.038573onnx/nsfl0.037877
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Pixelated character in blue shirt with speech bubble text above, labeled B2S below, displayed in three variations with differing speech bubble content.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:08 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,846 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,074, response 758

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • lightning bolt (object, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • square symbol (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • speech bubble content changes

Animation Summary

Speech bubble content changes between variations: top-left and bottom icons show 'B2S' with lightning bolt, top-right shows 'B2S' with square symbol.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below
  • speech bubble above

Dense Caption

Three identical pixelated character icons in blue shirts with white faces and black outlines appear on a gray background. Each icon has 'B2S' in white pixelated text below. The top-left icon has a speech bubble with 'B2S' and a lightning bolt symbol. The top-right icon has a speech bubble with 'B2S' and a square symbol. The bottom icon has a speech bubble with 'B2S' and a lightning bolt symbol. All icons share the same character pose and background.

Description

Pixelated character in blue shirt with speech bubble text above, labeled B2S below, displayed in three variations with differing speech bubble content.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • B2S blue shirt character
  • B2S lightning bolt speech bubble
  • B2S square symbol speech bubble
  • pixelated character gray background
  • B2S three variations
  • B2S speech bubble variations
  • B2S blue shirt gray background
  • B2S pixel art

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • lightning bolt
  • square symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Visible Text

  • B2S

Wordwall

  • B2S
  • blue shirt
  • gray background
  • speech bubble
  • lightning bolt
  • square symbol
  • pixelated character
  • white text
  • three 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
49096
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:17 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/49096.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20021017072635id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/49096.gif