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Pixelated icon with American flag background, cartoon character torso, and 'American Buddy' text below.

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Pixelated icon with American flag background, cartoon character torso, and 'American Buddy' text below.

Pixelated icon with American flag background, cartoon character torso, and 'American Buddy' text below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs, Ea…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character
  • flag background

Dense Caption

American flag background with blue field of white checkered squares and red-white stripes. Centered cartoon character torso with white circular head, blue left shoulder, red right shoulder, and blue-red striped torso. Gray lower background. Black pixelated text 'American Buddy' in two lines below character. All elements are static, pixelated, and low-resolution.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with American flag background, cartoon character torso, and 'American Buddy' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 4109
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 4109
  • 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

  • American flag cartoon character
  • blue checkered flag text
  • red white striped torso
  • American Buddy pixel art
  • cartoon character flag background
  • low-resolution flag icon
  • text below character
  • blue red striped torso

Visible Text

  • American Buddy

Wordwall

  • American flag background
  • blue checkered field
  • red-white stripes
  • cartoon character torso
  • white circular head
  • blue left shoulder
  • red right shoulder
  • blue-red striped torso
  • gray lower background
  • black pixelated text
  • American Buddy text
  • static pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • centered character
  • two-line text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
4109
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/ad30bd94c621a00dcfd5250f3847fd90fd6709611f19f89e1d26259e3bc6791b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Archive ID
ad30bd94c621a00d
SHA-256
ad30bd94c621a00dcfd5250f3847fd90fd6709611f19f89e1d26259e3bc6791b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082294

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917706onnx/unsafe0.082294onnx/nsfw0.046372onnx/nsfl0.035922
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Pixelated icon with American flag background, cartoon character torso, and 'American Buddy' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,209 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,050, response 699

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • american flag (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character torso (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character
  • flag background

Dense Caption

American flag background with blue field of white checkered squares and red-white stripes. Centered cartoon character torso with white circular head, blue left shoulder, red right shoulder, and blue-red striped torso. Gray lower background. Black pixelated text 'American Buddy' in two lines below character. All elements are static, pixelated, and low-resolution.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with American flag background, cartoon character torso, and 'American Buddy' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 4109
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 4109
  • 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

  • American flag cartoon character
  • blue checkered flag text
  • red white striped torso
  • American Buddy pixel art
  • cartoon character flag background
  • low-resolution flag icon
  • text below character
  • blue red striped torso

Objects

  • American flag
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • cartoon character torso

Visible Text

  • American Buddy

Wordwall

  • American flag background
  • blue checkered field
  • red-white stripes
  • cartoon character torso
  • white circular head
  • blue left shoulder
  • red right shoulder
  • blue-red striped torso
  • gray lower background
  • black pixelated text
  • American Buddy text
  • static pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • centered character
  • two-line 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
4109
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:47 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/4109.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612141001id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/4109.gif