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Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms, repeatedly shown with purple lightning bolts and black rock piles beneath text.

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Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms, repeatedly shown with purple lightning bolts and black rock piles beneath text.

Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms, repeatedly shown with purple lightning bolts and black rock piles beneath text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • lightning bolts appear in some frames
  • rock piles appear in some frames

Animation Summary

  • Lightning bolts and rock piles appear in some frames while the figure remains static.

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • lightning to left
  • rock piles below

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in multiple frames. Purple lightning bolts appear to the left of the figure in some frames. Black rock piles appear beneath the figure in some frames. All frames display the text "Lightning" below the figure. Background is gray in all frames. Some frames are white with no figure or text.

Description

Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms, repeatedly shown with purple lightning bolts and black rock piles beneath text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure lightning
  • lightning rock piles
  • pixelated lightning icon
  • gray background lightning
  • text lightning
  • lightning yellow figure
  • rock piles lightning
  • lightning gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • white frames contain no figure or text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 9507
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 9507
  • 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

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • Lightning

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • outstretched arms
  • purple lightning
  • black rock piles
  • gray background
  • text "Lightning"

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
9507
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8af1d5d26e6ddee67749a038bc7e12b28721c8a0ff19ae1e3247fbf284338961.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Archive ID
8af1d5d26e6ddee6
SHA-256
8af1d5d26e6ddee67749a038bc7e12b28721c8a0ff19ae1e3247fbf284338961
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094893

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921408onnx/unsafe0.094893onnx/nsfw0.056911onnx/nsfl0.037982
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Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms, repeatedly shown with purple lightning bolts and black rock piles beneath text.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:40 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,920 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 831

Review tags

  • lightning appears (action, 0.80)
  • rock piles appear (action, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • lightning bolts (object, 0.80)
  • rock piles (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • black rock piles (subject, 0.80)
  • purple lightning (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • lightning appears
  • rock piles appear

Animation

  • lightning bolts appear in some frames
  • rock piles appear in some frames

Animation Summary

  • Lightning bolts and rock piles appear in some frames while the figure remains static.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • lightning to left
  • rock piles below

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms appears in multiple frames. Purple lightning bolts appear to the left of the figure in some frames. Black rock piles appear beneath the figure in some frames. All frames display the text "Lightning" below the figure. Background is gray in all frames. Some frames are white with no figure or text.

Description

Pixelated yellow figure with white head and outstretched arms, repeatedly shown with purple lightning bolts and black rock piles beneath text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure lightning
  • lightning rock piles
  • pixelated lightning icon
  • gray background lightning
  • text lightning
  • lightning yellow figure
  • rock piles lightning
  • lightning gray background

Objects

  • lightning bolts
  • rock piles

Preprocessing Notes

  • white frames contain no figure or text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 9507
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 9507
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • purple lightning
  • black rock piles

Visible Text

  • Lightning

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • outstretched arms
  • purple lightning
  • black rock piles
  • gray background
  • text "Lightning"
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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
9507
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:50 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/9507.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613133031id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/9507.gif