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Pixel art image showing three distinct character icons above text reading 'Pimp Buddy' on a gray background.

Pixel art image showing three distinct character icons above text reading 'Pimp Buddy' on a gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIF…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three characters horizontally aligned above text
  • text centered below characters

Dense Caption

Gray background with three pixelated characters: leftmost has red hair, purple top, and pink accents; center wears green hat with white feather, green jacket with yellow details, black sleeves, holds brown staff with yellow tip; rightmost has yellow hair, red jacket with blue stripe. Below characters, 'Pimp' in large blocky font with underscore beneath it, followed by 'Buddy' in same style.

Description

  • Pixel art image showing three distinct character icons above text reading 'Pimp Buddy' on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • 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

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair purple top gray background
  • green hat white feather brown staff yellow details
  • yellow hair red jacket blue stripe blocky text

Visible Text

  • Pimp
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • purple top
  • green hat
  • white feather
  • yellow details
  • brown staff
  • yellow hair
  • red jacket
  • blue stripe
  • gray background
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
18914
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:25 UTC

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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/8b/8b5d897daf4a77ed22a082be6258facfaa9a8f9805a708022b1507972573cad1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Archive ID
8b5d897daf4a77ed
SHA-256
8b5d897daf4a77ed22a082be6258facfaa9a8f9805a708022b1507972573cad1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098273

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.901727onnx/unsafe0.098273onnx/nsfw0.061009onnx/nsfl0.037264
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art image showing three distinct character icons above text reading 'Pimp Buddy' on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,898 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,051, response 625

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • brown staff with yellow tip (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • center character with green hat (subject, 0.80)
  • left character with red hair (subject, 0.80)
  • right character with yellow hair (subject, 0.80)
  • three characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • purple
  • green
  • white
  • yellow
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • three characters horizontally aligned above text
  • text centered below characters

Dense Caption

Gray background with three pixelated characters: leftmost has red hair, purple top, and pink accents; center wears green hat with white feather, green jacket with yellow details, black sleeves, holds brown staff with yellow tip; rightmost has yellow hair, red jacket with blue stripe. Below characters, 'Pimp' in large blocky font with underscore beneath it, followed by 'Buddy' in same style.

Description

  • Pixel art image showing three distinct character icons above text reading 'Pimp Buddy' on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • 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

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair purple top gray background
  • green hat white feather brown staff yellow details
  • yellow hair red jacket blue stripe blocky text

Objects

  • brown staff with yellow tip

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • three characters
  • left character with red hair
  • center character with green hat
  • right character with yellow hair

Visible Text

  • Pimp
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • purple top
  • green hat
  • white feather
  • yellow details
  • brown staff
  • yellow hair
  • red jacket
  • blue stripe
  • gray background
  • blocky text
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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
18914
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:25 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/18914.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010615083013id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/18914.gif