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Pixelated icon shows a blue character with black eyes and white outline, surrounded by cyan flame-like shapes on gray background.

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Pixelated icon shows a blue character with black eyes and white outline, surrounded by cyan flame-like shapes on gray background.

Pixelated icon shows a blue character with black eyes and white outline, surrounded by cyan flame-like shapes on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Central pixel art figure: light blue head with dark blue body, white outline around black circular eyes, arms extended left-right in blue-and-white patterned sleeves. Cyan flame-like shapes radiate from behind the figure's head and shoulders. Below the figure, text "PowerUp" in bold blocky pixels (black fill, white outline) followed by "Buddy" in same style. All elements are static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a blue character with black eyes and white outline, surrounded by cyan flame-like shapes on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1441
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1441
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM portal
  • buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan flames blue character gray background
  • PowerUp Buddy pixel art
  • blocky text cyan flames
  • blue character white outline black eyes

Visible Text

  • PowerUp
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • cyan flames
  • blue character
  • gray background
  • black eyes
  • white outline
  • blocky text
  • PowerUp Buddy
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1441
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:15 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/99/99ebee1f382f7ea5d346082b3e8b47c35aaa9cada9e2ac6dabea50b1acee3789.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:15 UTC
Archive ID
99ebee1f382f7ea5
SHA-256
99ebee1f382f7ea5d346082b3e8b47c35aaa9cada9e2ac6dabea50b1acee3789
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083666

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon shows a blue character with black eyes and white outline, surrounded by cyan flame-like shapes on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,874 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,046, response 654

Review tags

  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • flames (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing

Colors

  • gray
  • cyan
  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Central pixel art figure: light blue head with dark blue body, white outline around black circular eyes, arms extended left-right in blue-and-white patterned sleeves. Cyan flame-like shapes radiate from behind the figure's head and shoulders. Below the figure, text "PowerUp" in bold blocky pixels (black fill, white outline) followed by "Buddy" in same style. All elements are static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a blue character with black eyes and white outline, surrounded by cyan flame-like shapes on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1441
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1441
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM portal
  • buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan flames blue character gray background
  • PowerUp Buddy pixel art
  • blocky text cyan flames
  • blue character white outline black eyes

Objects

  • flames

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • PowerUp
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • cyan flames
  • blue character
  • gray background
  • black eyes
  • white outline
  • blocky text
  • PowerUp Buddy
  • pixel art
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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
1441
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:15 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/1441.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010611203537id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1441.gif