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Pixelated character in blue shirt with white face, multiple states including speech bubbles and motion effects, static and animated frames on gray background.

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Pixelated character in blue shirt with white face, multiple states including speech bubbles and motion effects, static and animated frames on gray background.

Pixelated character in blue shirt with white face, multiple states including speech bubbles and motion effects, static and animated frames on gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • red dot motion effects
  • red motion lines
  • speech bubble text changes

Animation Summary

Character with blue shirt and white face shows red dot motion effects, red motion lines, and speech bubble text changes ('IM THE BEST', 'I HATE THAT', 'SHUT UP') across static and animated frames.

Composition

  • repeated character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background with repeated pixelated character in blue shirt and white face. Top row: five static characters with 'Buddy' text below. Second row: five characters with red dot motion effects. Third row: two characters with red-and-blue mushroom-like objects and red motion lines, two 'ly' text elements, one character with yellow-and-white document. Bottom row: three characters with yellow-and-white document, speech bubbles reading 'I HATE THAT' and 'SHUT UP', and 'Get Info' text. Animation changes include red dot motion effects, red motion lines, and speech bubble text changes.

Description

Pixelated character in blue shirt with white face, multiple states including speech bubbles and motion effects, static and animated frames on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shirt white face character
  • red dot motion effects
  • I HATE THAT speech bubble
  • SHUT UP speech bubble
  • Get Info text
  • mushroom-like objects
  • yellow document icon
  • gray background pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • static frames
  • animated frames
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 45728
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 45728
  • 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

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • Buddy
  • IM THE BEST
  • I HATE THAT
  • SHUT UP
  • Get Info
  • ly

Wordwall

  • blue shirt
  • white face
  • red dot motion
  • red motion lines
  • mushroom-like objects
  • yellow document
  • speech bubbles
  • I HATE THAT
  • SHUT UP
  • Get Info
  • Buddy text
  • gray background
  • pixelated character
  • motion effects
  • text changes
  • document icon
  • red-and-blue objects
  • static frames
  • animated frames
  • repeated character

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
45728
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:10 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (18 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c5a114bc85930850f650eb00608939e3d2df79ce6df359ab29c4c763be94ccc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Archive ID
9c5a114bc8593085
SHA-256
9c5a114bc85930850f650eb00608939e3d2df79ce6df359ab29c4c763be94ccc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 09:06 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.196935

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.196935falseviolence0.000529falseself-harm0.000455falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000123falsehate0.000051falseharassment/threatening0.000028falseillicit0.000014falseviolence/graphic0.000010falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falsesexual/minors0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/hate-or-harassment1.000000textenrichment/visual/hate-or-harassment0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085671

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920747onnx/unsafe0.085671onnx/nsfw0.045088onnx/nsfl0.040583
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character in blue shirt with white face, multiple states including speech bubbles and motion effects, static and animated frames on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,363 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,326, response 1,039

Review tags

  • motion effects (action, 0.80)
  • speech bubble changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • aggressive (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • mushroom like objects (object, 0.80)
  • yellow document (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • motion effects
  • speech bubble changes

Animation

  • red dot motion effects
  • red motion lines
  • speech bubble text changes

Animation Summary

Character with blue shirt and white face shows red dot motion effects, red motion lines, and speech bubble text changes ('IM THE BEST', 'I HATE THAT', 'SHUT UP') across static and animated frames.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • yellow

Composition

  • repeated character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background with repeated pixelated character in blue shirt and white face. Top row: five static characters with 'Buddy' text below. Second row: five characters with red dot motion effects. Third row: two characters with red-and-blue mushroom-like objects and red motion lines, two 'ly' text elements, one character with yellow-and-white document. Bottom row: three characters with yellow-and-white document, speech bubbles reading 'I HATE THAT' and 'SHUT UP', and 'Get Info' text. Animation changes include red dot motion effects, red motion lines, and speech bubble text changes.

Description

Pixelated character in blue shirt with white face, multiple states including speech bubbles and motion effects, static and animated frames on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • humorous
  • aggressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shirt white face character
  • red dot motion effects
  • I HATE THAT speech bubble
  • SHUT UP speech bubble
  • Get Info text
  • mushroom-like objects
  • yellow document icon
  • gray background pixelated

Objects

  • mushroom-like objects
  • yellow document

Preprocessing Notes

  • static frames
  • animated frames
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 45728
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 45728
  • 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
  • 2D
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Visible Text

  • Buddy
  • IM THE BEST
  • I HATE THAT
  • SHUT UP
  • Get Info
  • ly

Wordwall

  • blue shirt
  • white face
  • red dot motion
  • red motion lines
  • mushroom-like objects
  • yellow document
  • speech bubbles
  • I HATE THAT
  • SHUT UP
  • Get Info
  • Buddy text
  • gray background
  • pixelated character
  • motion effects
  • text changes
  • document icon
  • red-and-blue objects
  • static frames
  • animated frames
  • repeated character
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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
45728
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:10 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/45728.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020609062420id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/45728.gif