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Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Cuban flag; text reads "Cuban Buddy" below.

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Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Cuban flag; text reads "Cuban Buddy" below.

Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Cuban flag; text reads "Cuban Buddy" below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs, Early-to-Mid-2000s M…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure top-left
  • flag top-right
  • text bottom-center

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a cartoon figure with white eyes and black outline holding a Cuban flag. The flag has red, blue, and white colors with a white star on a red triangle. Below the figure, text is rendered in blocky pixels: 'Cuban' above 'Buddy', where 'Buddy' contains an acute accent over the first letter. Background is light gray checkered pattern.

Description

  • Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Cuban flag; text reads "Cuban Buddy" below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cuban buddy pixel art
  • yellow cartoon figure cuban flag
  • pixel text cuban buddy accent
  • cuban flag white star red triangle

Subjects

  • cartoon figure

Visible Text

  • Cuban
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Cuban flag

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white eyes
  • black outline
  • Cuban flag
  • red blue white colors
  • white star on red triangle
  • blocky pixel text
  • acute accent on B
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
2683
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab59cbb94eef4485148c22ee6d5a4bc1f4fede2c4bc305dd896a2b96ceadbd28.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:32 UTC
Archive ID
ab59cbb94eef4485
SHA-256
ab59cbb94eef4485148c22ee6d5a4bc1f4fede2c4bc305dd896a2b96ceadbd28
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
0.087489

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912511onnx/unsafe0.087489onnx/nsfw0.046641onnx/nsfl0.040847
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Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Cuban flag; text reads "Cuban Buddy" below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,142 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,045, response 610

Review tags

  • holding flag (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cuban flag (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding flag

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • figure top-left
  • flag top-right
  • text bottom-center

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a cartoon figure with white eyes and black outline holding a Cuban flag. The flag has red, blue, and white colors with a white star on a red triangle. Below the figure, text is rendered in blocky pixels: 'Cuban' above 'Buddy', where 'Buddy' contains an acute accent over the first letter. Background is light gray checkered pattern.

Description

  • Pixelated character in yellow shirt holds Cuban flag; text reads "Cuban Buddy" below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cuban buddy pixel art
  • yellow cartoon figure cuban flag
  • pixel text cuban buddy accent
  • cuban flag white star red triangle

Objects

  • Cuban flag

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • cartoon figure

Visible Text

  • Cuban
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Cuban flag

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white eyes
  • black outline
  • Cuban flag
  • red blue white colors
  • white star on red triangle
  • blocky pixel text
  • acute accent on B
  • light gray background
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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
2683
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:32 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/2683.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140527id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/2683.gif