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Pixelated yellow figure with white head and gray smoke effect, underlined text "Whoosh" on gray background.

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Pixelated yellow figure with white head and gray smoke effect, underlined text "Whoosh" on gray background.

Pixelated yellow figure with white head and gray smoke effect, underlined text "Whoosh" on gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • smoke effect appears on right side of figure

Animation Summary

  • The smoke effect appears on the right side of the yellow figure in different frames, with some figures partially cropped.

Composition

  • four figures
  • text below figures
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Gray background with four identical pixelated yellow figures, each with a white circular head and gray smoke effect on the right side. Each figure is positioned above the text "Whoosh" in white pixelated font with a black underline. The figures appear in different cropped states: top-left shows partial figure with smoke, top-right shows full figure with smoke, bottom-left shows partial figure with smoke, bottom-right shows full figure without smoke. All figures maintain consistent yellow body and white head colors.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow figure with white head and gray smoke effect, underlined text "Whoosh" on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure gray smoke Whoosh
  • pixelated Whoosh text
  • gray background yellow figure
  • smoke effect Whoosh text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 13181
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 13181
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Whoosh

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • gray smoke
  • text Whoosh
  • black underline
  • pixelated
  • four figures
  • partial crop
  • full crop

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
13181
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a40cb8c6fdb810eddbf2215ee71fab9bc66340fbdc8aa0e521f33f5aaafcb64e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 02:24 UTC
Archive ID
a40cb8c6fdb810ed
SHA-256
a40cb8c6fdb810eddbf2215ee71fab9bc66340fbdc8aa0e521f33f5aaafcb64e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093607

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917002onnx/unsafe0.093607onnx/nsfw0.055988onnx/nsfl0.037619
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated yellow figure with white head and gray smoke effect, underlined text "Whoosh" on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:30 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,386 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,063, response 868

Review tags

  • smoke effect (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black underline (object, 0.80)
  • text whoosh (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • gray smoke (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smoke effect

Animation

  • smoke effect appears on right side of figure

Animation Summary

  • The smoke effect appears on the right side of the yellow figure in different frames, with some figures partially cropped.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four figures
  • text below figures
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Gray background with four identical pixelated yellow figures, each with a white circular head and gray smoke effect on the right side. Each figure is positioned above the text "Whoosh" in white pixelated font with a black underline. The figures appear in different cropped states: top-left shows partial figure with smoke, top-right shows full figure with smoke, bottom-left shows partial figure with smoke, bottom-right shows full figure without smoke. All figures maintain consistent yellow body and white head colors.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow figure with white head and gray smoke effect, underlined text "Whoosh" on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure gray smoke Whoosh
  • pixelated Whoosh text
  • gray background yellow figure
  • smoke effect Whoosh text

Objects

  • text Whoosh
  • black underline

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 13181
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 13181
  • 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
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • gray smoke

Visible Text

  • Whoosh

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • gray smoke
  • text Whoosh
  • black underline
  • pixelated
  • four figures
  • partial crop
  • full crop
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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
13181
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:24 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/13181.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011223235255id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/13181.gif