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Pixelated image with two yellow hands, a speech bubble saying 'aahhh', and text reading 'The Claw' on gray background.

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Pixelated image with two yellow hands, a speech bubble saying 'aahhh', and text reading 'The Claw' on gray background.

Pixelated image with two yellow hands, a speech bubble saying 'aahhh', and text reading 'The Claw' on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • extending arm

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text below figures
  • speech bubble above left figure

Dense Caption

Gray background. Two pixelated figures: left figure has white circular head, yellow body, right arm extended forward; right figure has white circular head, yellow body, right hand near chest. Yellow speech bubble above left figure contains black text 'aahhh'. Below figures, large black-and-white pixelated text reads 'The Claw' with a horizontal line beneath 'Claw'.

Description

  • Pixelated image with two yellow hands, a speech bubble saying 'aahhh', and text reading 'The Claw' on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 25998
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 25998
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aahhh The Claw hands
  • yellow hands gray background
  • pixelated speech bubble aahhh
  • The Claw text hands

Objects

  • speech bubble

Subjects

  • speech bubble

Visible Text

  • aahhh
  • The Claw

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Claw

Wordwall

  • two hands
  • yellow bodies
  • white heads
  • speech bubble
  • 'aahhh'
  • gray background
  • pixelated style
  • text 'The Claw'

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
25998
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:26 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/98/989923c5b904dd7f841f0d2a69e6bf9cbcb420c9c7e507f2967b1e8eb38a8ef1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:26 UTC
Archive ID
989923c5b904dd7f
SHA-256
989923c5b904dd7f841f0d2a69e6bf9cbcb420c9c7e507f2967b1e8eb38a8ef1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086972

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image with two yellow hands, a speech bubble saying 'aahhh', and text reading 'The Claw' on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,116 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,054, response 679

Review tags

  • extending arm (action, 0.80)
  • holding hand near chest (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • extending arm
  • holding hand near chest

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text below figures
  • speech bubble above left figure

Dense Caption

Gray background. Two pixelated figures: left figure has white circular head, yellow body, right arm extended forward; right figure has white circular head, yellow body, right hand near chest. Yellow speech bubble above left figure contains black text 'aahhh'. Below figures, large black-and-white pixelated text reads 'The Claw' with a horizontal line beneath 'Claw'.

Description

  • Pixelated image with two yellow hands, a speech bubble saying 'aahhh', and text reading 'The Claw' on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 25998
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 25998
  • 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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aahhh The Claw hands
  • yellow hands gray background
  • pixelated speech bubble aahhh
  • The Claw text hands

Objects

  • speech bubble

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hands
  • speech bubble

Visible Text

  • aahhh
  • The Claw

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Claw

Wordwall

  • two hands
  • yellow bodies
  • white heads
  • speech bubble
  • 'aahhh'
  • gray background
  • pixelated style
  • text 'The Claw'
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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
25998
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:26 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/25998.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010827193618id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/25998.gif