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Pixelated icon shows a white sphere atop red and yellow shapes, with variations in size and color intensity across frames.

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Pixelated icon shows a white sphere atop red and yellow shapes, with variations in size and color intensity across frames.

Pixelated icon shows a white sphere atop red and yellow shapes, with variations in size and color intensity across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballerico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • progressive size reduction
  • color shift from red to yellow

Animation Summary

  • progressive size reduction from left to right with color shift from red to yellow

Composition

  • five
  • four

Dense Caption

The icon features a white sphere with a yellow base and red side elements. In the first two rows, the icon appears consistently as a small, full-color pixelated figure. In the third row, the icon progressively shrinks from left to right, with the leftmost version showing a full figure, followed by a smaller version, then a red circle, a larger red circle, and finally a yellow starburst shape. The fourth row shows two smaller red shapes. The background is solid gray. Text below each icon reads "Box Buddy" in a pixelated font. The icon's color palette includes white, red, yellow, and gray. The icon's style is retro pixel art with limited color depth. The icon's composition is grid-based with five columns and four rows. The icon's mood is playful and whimsical. The icon's animation shows a progressive reduction in size and a color shift from red to yellow. The icon's animation summary is: the icon shrinks from left to right, with the final frame showing a yellow starburst shape. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a white sphere atop red and yellow shapes, with variations in size and color intensity across frames.

Metadata Supported By Image

  • The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change.

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white sphere yellow base red side elements
  • retro pixel art box buddy
  • progressive size reduction color shift
  • yellow starburst shape box buddy
  • small red shapes box buddy
  • gray background box buddy
  • pixelated font box buddy
  • box buddy retro pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: five columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change.

Visible Text

  • Box Buddy

Wordwall

  • white sphere
  • yellow base
  • red side elements
  • gray background
  • pixelated font
  • "Box Buddy" text
  • progressive size reduction
  • color shift from red to yellow
  • retro pixel art
  • small red shapes
  • yellow starburst shape

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
9186
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:48 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (17 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8da51ee522e0da7a6eb9e74547bab4b60c9316aad0e3338d302db30f894443bb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Archive ID
8da51ee522e0da7a
SHA-256
8da51ee522e0da7a6eb9e74547bab4b60c9316aad0e3338d302db30f894443bb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116307

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.890715onnx/unsafe0.116307onnx/nsfw0.076918onnx/nsfl0.039388
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon shows a white sphere atop red and yellow shapes, with variations in size and color intensity across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:39 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,600 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,323, response 851

Review tags

  • color shift (action, 0.80)
  • progressive size reduction (action, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • small red shapes (object, 0.80)
  • yellow starburst shape (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.80)
  • retro pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red side elements (subject, 0.80)
  • white sphere (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow base (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • progressive size reduction
  • color shift

Animation

  • progressive size reduction
  • color shift from red to yellow

Animation Summary

  • progressive size reduction from left to right with color shift from red to yellow

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • five
  • four

Dense Caption

The icon features a white sphere with a yellow base and red side elements. In the first two rows, the icon appears consistently as a small, full-color pixelated figure. In the third row, the icon progressively shrinks from left to right, with the leftmost version showing a full figure, followed by a smaller version, then a red circle, a larger red circle, and finally a yellow starburst shape. The fourth row shows two smaller red shapes. The background is solid gray. Text below each icon reads "Box Buddy" in a pixelated font. The icon's color palette includes white, red, yellow, and gray. The icon's style is retro pixel art with limited color depth. The icon's composition is grid-based with five columns and four rows. The icon's mood is playful and whimsical. The icon's animation shows a progressive reduction in size and a color shift from red to yellow. The icon's animation summary is: the icon shrinks from left to right, with the final frame showing a yellow starburst shape. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change. The icon's animation is a.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a white sphere atop red and yellow shapes, with variations in size and color intensity across frames.

Metadata Supported By Image

  • The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change.

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white sphere yellow base red side elements
  • retro pixel art box buddy
  • progressive size reduction color shift
  • yellow starburst shape box buddy
  • small red shapes box buddy
  • gray background box buddy
  • pixelated font box buddy
  • box buddy retro pixel art

Objects

  • small red shapes
  • yellow starburst shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: five columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • The icon's animation is a single sequence of size reduction and color change.

Style

  • retro pixel art
  • pixelated font

Subjects

  • white sphere
  • yellow base
  • red side elements

Visible Text

  • Box Buddy

Wordwall

  • white sphere
  • yellow base
  • red side elements
  • gray background
  • pixelated font
  • "Box Buddy" text
  • progressive size reduction
  • color shift from red to yellow
  • retro pixel art
  • small red shapes
  • yellow starburst shape
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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
9186
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:48 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/9186.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612135927id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/9186.gif