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Pixelated character with red hair, white face, black horns, purple chest, and red checkered cape holding a red and black object against gray background.

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Pixelated character with red hair, white face, black horns, purple chest, and red checkered cape holding a red and black object against gray background.

Pixelated character with red hair, white face, black horns, purple chest, and red checkered cape holding a red and black object against gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image on solid gray background. Central figure has red hair with white face, two black horn shapes on top of head, purple chest area, and red checkered cape. Figure holds a red and black object with yellow and green details in right hand. Black pixel lines form limbs. Below figure, pixelated text reads 'Josie' in black and white. All elements are low-resolution, 8-bit style.

Description

Pixelated character with red hair, white face, black horns, purple chest, and red checkered cape holding a red and black object against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 11073
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 12949
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 11073
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 12949

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • AOL IM
  • 2000s
  • buddy-icons
  • celebrities
  • college
  • attitude

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair white face black horns purple chest
  • checkered cape holding object Josie
  • pixel art gray background text
  • 8-bit style character holding red black object
  • red black object yellow green details
  • gray background central figure Josie
  • low-resolution character text below
  • pixelated text Josie 8-bit art

Visible Text

  • Josie

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • white face
  • black horns
  • purple chest
  • red checkered cape
  • red black object
  • yellow green details
  • black pixel limbs
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • Josie
  • 8-bit style
  • static image
  • low-resolution
  • central figure
  • held object
  • text below figure

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
11073
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:34 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
12949
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:15 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aabadffbb5354cd87ec3a5df440b9283493d4e06c999fc667a135f6951e85f0b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Archive ID
aabadffbb5354cd8
SHA-256
aabadffbb5354cd87ec3a5df440b9283493d4e06c999fc667a135f6951e85f0b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080433

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919567onnx/unsafe0.080433onnx/nsfw0.047816onnx/nsfl0.032617
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with red hair, white face, black horns, purple chest, and red checkered cape holding a red and black object against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:00 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,797 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,066, response 803

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • red black object (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • purple
  • yellow
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image on solid gray background. Central figure has red hair with white face, two black horn shapes on top of head, purple chest area, and red checkered cape. Figure holds a red and black object with yellow and green details in right hand. Black pixel lines form limbs. Below figure, pixelated text reads 'Josie' in black and white. All elements are low-resolution, 8-bit style.

Description

Pixelated character with red hair, white face, black horns, purple chest, and red checkered cape holding a red and black object against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 11073
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 12949
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 11073
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 12949

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • AOL IM
  • 2000s
  • buddy-icons
  • celebrities
  • college
  • attitude

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair white face black horns purple chest
  • checkered cape holding object Josie
  • pixel art gray background text
  • 8-bit style character holding red black object
  • red black object yellow green details
  • gray background central figure Josie
  • low-resolution character text below
  • pixelated text Josie 8-bit art

Objects

  • red black object

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Josie

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • white face
  • black horns
  • purple chest
  • red checkered cape
  • red black object
  • yellow green details
  • black pixel limbs
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • Josie
  • 8-bit style
  • static image
  • low-resolution
  • central figure
  • held object
  • text below figure
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Full source records (2)

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
11073
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:34 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/11073.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612070321id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/11073.gif

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
12949
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:15 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/12949.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612110725id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/12949.gif