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Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem in multiple poses above text reading 'Dale' on gray background.

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Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem in multiple poses above text reading 'Dale' on gray background.

Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem in multiple poses above text reading 'Dale' on gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character dissolves into pixel clusters
  • pixel clusters transform into number 3

Animation Summary

  • Character dissolves into pixel clusters then transforms into number 3

Composition

  • four
  • text below each icon

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem appears in multiple poses: standing with arms at sides, waving right hand, and in motion blur. Text below reads 'Dale' in white pixelated font. Later frames show character dissolving into red and white pixel clusters, then transforming into a large red-outlined white '3' symbol. Background is solid gray. Animation progresses from static character to pixelated motion effects to a stylized number.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem in multiple poses above text reading 'Dale' on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Dale character pixel art
  • Dale pixel icon
  • Dale animation 3
  • Dale number 3 icon
  • Dale pixel character
  • Dale red emblem
  • Dale gray background
  • Dale motion blur

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm animation sequence
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Visible Text

  • Dale

Visually Supported Entities

  • Dale

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red chest emblem
  • gray background
  • Dale text
  • waving pose
  • motion blur
  • pixel clusters
  • stylized 3
  • red outline
  • white fill
  • pixelated character
  • dissolving effect
  • static pose
  • animation sequence
  • number symbol
  • text below
  • white font
  • red accents
  • gray backdrop
  • character design

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
44674
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/addf10eba0530dc3fb9eb22b176da389a6904bb4df6c210e63f5027da06d1a26.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Archive ID
addf10eba0530dc3
SHA-256
addf10eba0530dc3fb9eb22b176da389a6904bb4df6c210e63f5027da06d1a26
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104586

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926134onnx/unsafe0.104586onnx/nsfw0.055298onnx/nsfl0.049288
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Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem in multiple poses above text reading 'Dale' on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:56 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,675 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,079, response 871

Review tags

  • dissolving (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • transforming (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • number 3 (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • waving
  • dissolving
  • transforming

Animation

  • character dissolves into pixel clusters
  • pixel clusters transform into number 3

Animation Summary

  • Character dissolves into pixel clusters then transforms into number 3

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • text below each icon

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem appears in multiple poses: standing with arms at sides, waving right hand, and in motion blur. Text below reads 'Dale' in white pixelated font. Later frames show character dissolving into red and white pixel clusters, then transforming into a large red-outlined white '3' symbol. Background is solid gray. Animation progresses from static character to pixelated motion effects to a stylized number.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair and red chest emblem in multiple poses above text reading 'Dale' on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Dale character pixel art
  • Dale pixel icon
  • Dale animation 3
  • Dale number 3 icon
  • Dale pixel character
  • Dale red emblem
  • Dale gray background
  • Dale motion blur

Objects

  • number 3

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm animation sequence
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Dale

Visually Supported Entities

  • Dale

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red chest emblem
  • gray background
  • Dale text
  • waving pose
  • motion blur
  • pixel clusters
  • stylized 3
  • red outline
  • white fill
  • pixelated character
  • dissolving effect
  • static pose
  • animation sequence
  • number symbol
  • text below
  • white font
  • red accents
  • gray backdrop
  • character design
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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
44674
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:05 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/44674.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020522192707id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/44674.gif