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Pixelated character with brown skin, black afro hair, and orange pants; text below reads "Fat Albert" in blocky font.

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Pixelated character with brown skin, black afro hair, and orange pants; text below reads "Fat Albert" in blocky font.

Pixelated character with brown skin, black afro hair, and orange pants; text below reads "Fat Albert" in blocky font. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below image

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a cartoon character with brown skin tone, short black afro hairstyle, white eyes with black pupils, and visible facial features including nose and mouth. The character wears an orange garment with white accents on the sleeves. Below the figure, text reads "Fat Albert" in bold blocky font with black outlines and white fill. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown skin, black afro hair, and orange pants; text below reads "Fat Albert" in blocky font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Fat Albert

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • 24928
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 24928
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 24928

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fat albert cartoon character
  • pixel art fat albert
  • brown skin fat albert
  • blocky text fat albert

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Fat Albert

Visually Supported Entities

  • Fat Albert

Wordwall

  • brown skin
  • black afro hair
  • white eyes
  • orange pants
  • blocky text
  • light gray background
  • pixelated art

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
24928
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9ab8c7bde4c5e735e3eace24842724ca571c13c647edb6b5c67591b447f17e7a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:19 UTC
Archive ID
9ab8c7bde4c5e735
SHA-256
9ab8c7bde4c5e735e3eace24842724ca571c13c647edb6b5c67591b447f17e7a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000570

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078039

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character with brown skin, black afro hair, and orange pants; text below reads "Fat Albert" in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,375 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below image

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a cartoon character with brown skin tone, short black afro hairstyle, white eyes with black pupils, and visible facial features including nose and mouth. The character wears an orange garment with white accents on the sleeves. Below the figure, text reads "Fat Albert" in bold blocky font with black outlines and white fill. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown skin, black afro hair, and orange pants; text below reads "Fat Albert" in blocky font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Fat Albert

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • 24928
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 24928
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 24928

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fat albert cartoon character
  • pixel art fat albert
  • brown skin fat albert
  • blocky text fat albert

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Fat Albert

Visually Supported Entities

  • Fat Albert

Wordwall

  • brown skin
  • black afro hair
  • white eyes
  • orange pants
  • blocky text
  • light gray background
  • pixelated art
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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
24928
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:19 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/24928.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010821165926id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/24928.gif