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Pixelated icon shows a character with dotted hands, transitioning to solid hands, then adding a yellow patterned shirt, and finally a white head.

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Pixelated icon shows a character with dotted hands, transitioning to solid hands, then adding a yellow patterned shirt, and finally a white head.

Pixelated icon shows a character with dotted hands, transitioning to solid hands, then adding a yellow patterned shirt, and finally a white head. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • dotted hands to solid hands
  • solid hands to yellow patterned shirt
  • yellow patterned shirt to white head

Animation Summary

The icon transitions through four states: dotted hands, solid hands, solid hands with yellow patterned shirt, solid hands with yellow patterned shirt and white head.

Composition

  • four
  • text below icon

Dense Caption

The icon displays a sequence of four distinct states. First state: dotted hands and head outline on a gray background. Second state: solid black hands and head outline. Third state: solid black hands and head outline with a yellow patterned shirt. Fourth state: solid black hands and head outline with a yellow patterned shirt and a white head. Text below reads "Connect the Dots Buddy" in white pixelated font. All states share the same gray background and layout.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a character with dotted hands, transitioning to solid hands, then adding a yellow patterned shirt, and finally a white head.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26158
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26158
  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 26158
  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dotted hands solid hands yellow shirt white head
  • Connect the Dots Buddy animation
  • pixelated character animation
  • gray background yellow shirt white head
  • four-state animation
  • solid hands yellow patterned shirt
  • dotted hands to solid hands
  • yellow patterned shirt white head

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • Connect the Dots Buddy

Wordwall

  • dotted hands
  • solid hands
  • yellow patterned shirt
  • white head
  • gray background
  • Connect the Dots Buddy text
  • pixelated font
  • four-state animation

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
26158
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.6 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a28fd56c63f4d615d904515b32046f23a1cf8adb5a7daa1f151e800ef5b75532.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:27 UTC
Archive ID
a28fd56c63f4d615
SHA-256
a28fd56c63f4d615d904515b32046f23a1cf8adb5a7daa1f151e800ef5b75532
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102867

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.900734onnx/unsafe0.102867onnx/nsfw0.062393onnx/nsfl0.040475
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Pixelated icon shows a character with dotted hands, transitioning to solid hands, then adding a yellow patterned shirt, and finally a white head.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,211 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 809

Review tags

  • dotted hands (action, 0.80)
  • solid hands (action, 0.80)
  • white head (action, 0.80)
  • yellow patterned shirt (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • dotted hands
  • solid hands
  • yellow patterned shirt
  • white head

Animation

  • dotted hands to solid hands
  • solid hands to yellow patterned shirt
  • yellow patterned shirt to white head

Animation Summary

The icon transitions through four states: dotted hands, solid hands, solid hands with yellow patterned shirt, solid hands with yellow patterned shirt and white head.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • text below icon

Dense Caption

The icon displays a sequence of four distinct states. First state: dotted hands and head outline on a gray background. Second state: solid black hands and head outline. Third state: solid black hands and head outline with a yellow patterned shirt. Fourth state: solid black hands and head outline with a yellow patterned shirt and a white head. Text below reads "Connect the Dots Buddy" in white pixelated font. All states share the same gray background and layout.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a character with dotted hands, transitioning to solid hands, then adding a yellow patterned shirt, and finally a white head.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 26158
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 26158
  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 26158
  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dotted hands solid hands yellow shirt white head
  • Connect the Dots Buddy animation
  • pixelated character animation
  • gray background yellow shirt white head
  • four-state animation
  • solid hands yellow patterned shirt
  • dotted hands to solid hands
  • yellow patterned shirt white head

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Connect the Dots Buddy

Wordwall

  • dotted hands
  • solid hands
  • yellow patterned shirt
  • white head
  • gray background
  • Connect the Dots Buddy text
  • pixelated font
  • four-state animation
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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
26158
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:27 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/26158.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010808022443id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/26158.gif