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Pixel art image with gray background showing text and two cartoon figures, one Black in orange shirt with blue hat, one White in blue shirt.

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Pixel art image with gray background showing text and two cartoon figures, one Black in orange shirt with blue hat, one White in blue shirt.

Pixel art image with gray background showing text and two cartoon figures, one Black in orange shirt with blue hat, one White in blue shirt. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text left and center
  • figures right and center
  • underlined text elements

Dense Caption

Gray background displays pixelated white text: "It doesn't matter" on left, "If You're" above center, "Or" below left, and "White" below center. Two cartoon figures appear: upper right figure has dark skin, black hair, orange long-sleeve shirt, blue hat; lower center figure has light skin, brown hair, blue long-sleeve shirt. All text is underlined with single pixel lines.

Description

  • Pixel art image with gray background showing text and two cartoon figures, one Black in orange shirt with blue hat, one White in blue shirt.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8211
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8211
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 8211

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black figure orange shirt blue hat
  • white figure blue shirt brown hair
  • it doesn't matter if you're white black
  • pixel art gray background text figures

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • It
  • doesn't
  • matter
  • If
  • You're
  • Or
  • White
  • Black

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixelated white text
  • underlined text
  • "It doesn't matter"
  • "If You're"
  • "Or"
  • "White"
  • "Black"
  • dark-skinned figure
  • light-skinned figure
  • orange long-sleeve shirt
  • blue long-sleeve shirt
  • blue hat
  • brown hair
  • black hair

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
8211
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:44 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/85366ae858ff17a915ef36dc7bc80c81d3e50d714a1dfc4b58de0d0e2bc469e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Archive ID
85366ae858ff17a9
SHA-256
85366ae858ff17a915ef36dc7bc80c81d3e50d714a1dfc4b58de0d0e2bc469e1
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001208

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art image with gray background showing text and two cartoon figures, one Black in orange shirt with blue hat, one White in blue shirt.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:35 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,477 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 746

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blue hat (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • dark skinned figure (subject, 0.80)
  • light skinned figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • orange
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • text left and center
  • figures right and center
  • underlined text elements

Dense Caption

Gray background displays pixelated white text: "It doesn't matter" on left, "If You're" above center, "Or" below left, and "White" below center. Two cartoon figures appear: upper right figure has dark skin, black hair, orange long-sleeve shirt, blue hat; lower center figure has light skin, brown hair, blue long-sleeve shirt. All text is underlined with single pixel lines.

Description

  • Pixel art image with gray background showing text and two cartoon figures, one Black in orange shirt with blue hat, one White in blue shirt.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8211
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8211
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 8211

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black figure orange shirt blue hat
  • white figure blue shirt brown hair
  • it doesn't matter if you're white black
  • pixel art gray background text figures

Objects

  • blue hat

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • dark-skinned figure
  • light-skinned figure

Visible Text

  • It
  • doesn't
  • matter
  • If
  • You're
  • Or
  • White
  • Black

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixelated white text
  • underlined text
  • "It doesn't matter"
  • "If You're"
  • "Or"
  • "White"
  • "Black"
  • dark-skinned figure
  • light-skinned figure
  • orange long-sleeve shirt
  • blue long-sleeve shirt
  • blue hat
  • brown hair
  • black hair
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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
8211
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:44 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/8211.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613133535id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/8211.gif