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Four pixelated cartoon figures in a 2x2 grid, each with a white circular head and colored body, below which is pixelated text reading 'Art'.

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Four pixelated cartoon figures in a 2x2 grid, each with a white circular head and colored body, below which is pixelated text reading 'Art'.

Four pixelated cartoon figures in a 2x2 grid, each with a white circular head and colored body, below which is pixelated text reading 'Art'. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • 2x2 grid
  • centered figures
  • text below grid

Dense Caption

Four distinct pixelated cartoon figures arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left figure: blue body, light blue background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. Top-right figure: red body, pink background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. Bottom-left figure: yellow body, light yellow background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. Bottom-right figure: green body, light green background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. All figures have black outlines. Below the grid, pixelated text reads 'Art' with a black underline. The background of the entire image is gray. The figures are static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Four pixelated cartoon figures in a 2x2 grid, each with a white circular head and colored body, below which is pixelated text reading 'Art'.

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

  • 1715

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four cartoon figures 2x2 grid
  • blue red yellow green bodies
  • white circular heads black outlines
  • Art text gray background
  • pixelated cartoon figures
  • buddy icons 2000s
  • buddy icons aim
  • buddy icons ballericons

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all figures are static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1715
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1715
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Art

Wordwall

  • 2x2 grid
  • four figures
  • white circular heads
  • blue body
  • red body
  • yellow body
  • green body
  • light blue background
  • pink background
  • light yellow background
  • light green background
  • black outlines
  • pixelated text
  • Art
  • black underline
  • gray background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1715
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8ea5a6b5b2071928db581cef72353e5060ed1e1f0a5db4ed4599e682f0db4564.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:56 UTC
Archive ID
8ea5a6b5b2071928
SHA-256
8ea5a6b5b2071928db581cef72353e5060ed1e1f0a5db4ed4599e682f0db4564
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000602

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081619

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four pixelated cartoon figures in a 2x2 grid, each with a white circular head and colored body, below which is pixelated text reading 'Art'.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,050, response 913

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • simplified (mood, 0.80)
  • black outlines (object, 0.80)
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  • white circular heads (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms extended left and right

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • light blue
  • pink
  • light yellow
  • light green
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • 2x2 grid
  • centered figures
  • text below grid

Dense Caption

Four distinct pixelated cartoon figures arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left figure: blue body, light blue background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. Top-right figure: red body, pink background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. Bottom-left figure: yellow body, light yellow background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. Bottom-right figure: green body, light green background, white circular head, arms extended left and right. All figures have black outlines. Below the grid, pixelated text reads 'Art' with a black underline. The background of the entire image is gray. The figures are static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Four pixelated cartoon figures in a 2x2 grid, each with a white circular head and colored body, below which is pixelated text reading 'Art'.

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

  • 1715

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Mood

  • playful
  • simplified

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four cartoon figures 2x2 grid
  • blue red yellow green bodies
  • white circular heads black outlines
  • Art text gray background
  • pixelated cartoon figures
  • buddy icons 2000s
  • buddy icons aim
  • buddy icons ballericons

Objects

  • white circular heads
  • black outlines
  • black underline

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all figures are static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1715
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1715
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon figures

Visible Text

  • Art

Wordwall

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  • four figures
  • white circular heads
  • blue body
  • red body
  • yellow body
  • green body
  • light blue background
  • pink background
  • light yellow background
  • light green background
  • black outlines
  • pixelated text
  • Art
  • black underline
  • gray background
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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
1715
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:56 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/1715.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613134419id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1715.gif