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Pixelated bar chart with five vertical bars of varying heights on gray background, below which is text reading "New Towers" in blocky font.

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Pixelated bar chart with five vertical bars of varying heights on gray background, below which is text reading "New Towers" in blocky font.

Pixelated bar chart with five vertical bars of varying heights on gray background, below which is text reading "New Towers" in blocky font. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • horizontal alignment
  • text below graphic

Dense Caption

Gray background with five vertical bars in black outline and varying shades of gray fill; leftmost bar is shortest, second bar is taller, third bar is tallest, fourth bar is shorter than third, fifth bar is shortest. Bars are aligned horizontally with small gaps between them. Below bars, centered text reads "New Towers" in blocky, pixelated font with black letters and white fill. The text has a horizontal line beneath the "N" of "New". The bars and text are rendered in a low-resolution, 8-bit style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated bar chart with five vertical bars of varying heights on gray background, below which is text reading "New Towers" in blocky font.

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

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 35803
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 35803

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bar chart icon
  • new towers text
  • gray pixelated bars
  • buddy icon 2000s
  • aim buddy icon
  • low resolution bar chart
  • text new towers
  • 8-bit style icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No motion detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 35803
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 35803
  • 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

Visible Text

  • New Towers

Wordwall

  • five vertical bars
  • gray background
  • black outlines
  • varying bar heights
  • shades of gray fill
  • text "New Towers"
  • blocky font
  • horizontal line under "N"
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit style
  • centered composition
  • pixelated rendering
  • no additional symbols
  • no colors beyond gray/black/white
  • no visible motion

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
35803
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
366 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93a7a334e5e630552cbb98950878678009558de02761621114691ad0e4493896.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
Archive ID
93a7a334e5e63055
SHA-256
93a7a334e5e630552cbb98950878678009558de02761621114691ad0e4493896
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100827

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.899173onnx/unsafe0.100827onnx/nsfw0.067505onnx/nsfl0.033323
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Pixelated bar chart with five vertical bars of varying heights on gray background, below which is text reading "New Towers" in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:01 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,480 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,057, response 956

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • functional (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • bars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bar chart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • horizontal alignment
  • text below graphic

Dense Caption

Gray background with five vertical bars in black outline and varying shades of gray fill; leftmost bar is shortest, second bar is taller, third bar is tallest, fourth bar is shorter than third, fifth bar is shortest. Bars are aligned horizontally with small gaps between them. Below bars, centered text reads "New Towers" in blocky, pixelated font with black letters and white fill. The text has a horizontal line beneath the "N" of "New". The bars and text are rendered in a low-resolution, 8-bit style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated bar chart with five vertical bars of varying heights on gray background, below which is text reading "New Towers" in blocky font.

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

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 35803
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 35803

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Mood

  • neutral
  • functional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bar chart icon
  • new towers text
  • gray pixelated bars
  • buddy icon 2000s
  • aim buddy icon
  • low resolution bar chart
  • text new towers
  • 8-bit style icon

Objects

  • bars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No motion detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 35803
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 35803
  • 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
  • 8-bit
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • bar chart
  • text

Visible Text

  • New Towers

Wordwall

  • five vertical bars
  • gray background
  • black outlines
  • varying bar heights
  • shades of gray fill
  • text "New Towers"
  • blocky font
  • horizontal line under "N"
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit style
  • centered composition
  • pixelated rendering
  • no additional symbols
  • no colors beyond gray/black/white
  • no visible motion
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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
35803
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:23 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://ballericons.com/icon/35803.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011025224405id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/35803.gif