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Pixel art scene with 'Cali Buddy' text above a beach setting featuring palm trees, a sunset, and a character on a platform.

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Pixel art scene with 'Cali Buddy' text above a beach setting featuring palm trees, a sunset, and a character on a platform.

Pixel art scene with 'Cali Buddy' text above a beach setting featuring palm trees, a sunset, and a character on a platform. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Balleric…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal split
  • text above scene
  • symmetrical elements

Dense Caption

Yellow background with orange dots. Black text 'Cali Buddy' at top. Orange beach with blue water. Two palm trees with green tops and brown trunks. Red sunset with orange dots. Character with red hat, yellow patterned shirt, and white pants on blue platform with white border. Left side shows partial orange landmass; right side shows full blue water. Pixelated style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixel art scene with 'Cali Buddy' text above a beach setting featuring palm trees, a sunset, and a character on a platform.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Cali Buddy pixel art
  • beach scene with palm trees
  • character with red hat
  • yellow background with orange dots
  • blue water orange beach
  • pixelated style limited color palette
  • sunset with orange dots
  • platform with white border

Visible Text

  • Cali Buddy

Wordwall

  • Cali Buddy text
  • yellow background
  • orange dots
  • blue water
  • orange beach
  • palm trees
  • green tops
  • brown trunks
  • red sunset
  • character
  • red hat
  • yellow patterned shirt
  • white pants
  • blue platform
  • white border
  • pixelated style
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
12314
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aa5dba98372707af6c43ab05bc8bf57c014d91959e2b27317dfe36f3552ef261.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 01:59 UTC
Archive ID
aa5dba98372707af
SHA-256
aa5dba98372707af6c43ab05bc8bf57c014d91959e2b27317dfe36f3552ef261
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085873

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art scene with 'Cali Buddy' text above a beach setting featuring palm trees, a sunset, and a character on a platform.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:16 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,928 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 747

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • palm trees (object, 0.80)
  • platform (object, 0.80)
  • sunset (object, 0.80)
  • limited color palette (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • green
  • brown
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal split
  • text above scene
  • symmetrical elements

Dense Caption

Yellow background with orange dots. Black text 'Cali Buddy' at top. Orange beach with blue water. Two palm trees with green tops and brown trunks. Red sunset with orange dots. Character with red hat, yellow patterned shirt, and white pants on blue platform with white border. Left side shows partial orange landmass; right side shows full blue water. Pixelated style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixel art scene with 'Cali Buddy' text above a beach setting featuring palm trees, a sunset, and a character on a platform.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Mood

  • cheerful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • beach scene with palm trees
  • character with red hat
  • yellow background with orange dots
  • blue water orange beach
  • pixelated style limited color palette
  • sunset with orange dots
  • platform with white border

Objects

  • palm trees
  • sunset
  • platform

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • limited color palette

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Cali Buddy

Wordwall

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  • yellow background
  • orange dots
  • blue water
  • orange beach
  • palm trees
  • green tops
  • brown trunks
  • red sunset
  • character
  • red hat
  • yellow patterned shirt
  • white pants
  • blue platform
  • white border
  • pixelated style
  • limited color palette
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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
12314
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:59 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/12314.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140037id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/12314.gif