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Pixel art character with gray jacket and hat, arms outstretched above 'Gadget Buddy' text on light gray background.

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Pixel art character with gray jacket and hat, arms outstretched above 'Gadget Buddy' text on light gray background.

Pixel art character with gray jacket and hat, arms outstretched above 'Gadget Buddy' text on light gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nati…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Two static frames of a pixelated character: left frame shows figure in gray jacket and flat gray hat with white face; right frame replaces hat with tall black-and-white streetlamp. Both figures have outstretched arms, gray jackets with dark vertical lines, and identical 'Gadget Buddy' text below—black letters with white outlines on light gray background. Character's body is pixelated gray with brown accents on jacket sleeves.

Description

  • Pixel art character with gray jacket and hat, arms outstretched above 'Gadget Buddy' text on light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Gadget Buddy streetlamp hat
  • pixel art Gadget Buddy character
  • gray jacket outstretched arms

Visible Text

  • Gadget Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray jacket
  • flat hat
  • streetlamp head
  • outstretched arms
  • white face
  • brown sleeve accents
  • light gray background
  • Gadget Buddy text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
6136
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
750 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/abba83819d140b9563dce812b8af8ae305321e78e253e474b29c26e360c6bb5d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Archive ID
abba83819d140b95
SHA-256
abba83819d140b9563dce812b8af8ae305321e78e253e474b29c26e360c6bb5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091562

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art character with gray jacket and hat, arms outstretched above 'Gadget Buddy' text on light gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:23 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,494 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 493

Review tags

  • arms outstretched (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • flat hat (object, 0.80)
  • gray jacket (object, 0.80)
  • streetlamp head (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms outstretched

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Two static frames of a pixelated character: left frame shows figure in gray jacket and flat gray hat with white face; right frame replaces hat with tall black-and-white streetlamp. Both figures have outstretched arms, gray jackets with dark vertical lines, and identical 'Gadget Buddy' text below—black letters with white outlines on light gray background. Character's body is pixelated gray with brown accents on jacket sleeves.

Description

  • Pixel art character with gray jacket and hat, arms outstretched above 'Gadget Buddy' text on light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Gadget Buddy streetlamp hat
  • pixel art Gadget Buddy character
  • gray jacket outstretched arms

Objects

  • gray jacket
  • flat hat
  • streetlamp head

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Gadget Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray jacket
  • flat hat
  • streetlamp head
  • outstretched arms
  • white face
  • brown sleeve accents
  • light gray background
  • Gadget Buddy text
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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
6136
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:32 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://ballericons.com/icon/6136.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010903132058id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/6136.gif