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Pixelated snail icon with purple shell featuring pink spiral, cyan body and eyestalks, white eyes on black outlines against gray background.

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Pixelated snail icon with purple shell featuring pink spiral, cyan body and eyestalks, white eyes on black outlines against gray background.

Pixelated snail icon with purple shell featuring pink spiral, cyan body and eyestalks, white eyes on black outlines against gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central subject
  • text below

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a stylized snail. The shell is purple with a bright pink spiral pattern; the body and two eyestalks are cyan. Each eyestalk has a white circular eye at the top with a small black pupil. The entire figure uses thick black outlines on a solid gray background. Below the snail, pixelated text reads "Gary" in white letters with black outlines.

Description

  • Pixelated snail icon with purple shell featuring pink spiral, cyan body and eyestalks, white eyes on black outlines against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons collection identity
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple snail icon with pink spiral shell
  • cyan body snail Gary text
  • pixel art Gary snail
  • gray background Gary snail icon

Visible Text

  • Gary

Visually Supported Entities

  • Gary (text)

Wordwall

  • purple shell
  • pink spiral pattern
  • cyan body
  • two eyestalks
  • white eyes
  • black outlines
  • gray background
  • "Gary" text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
34608
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b14a967d288302c3708bc9f155a2cf42b99b19378d187a98f5c233aa830c6dfc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Archive ID
b14a967d288302c3
SHA-256
b14a967d288302c3708bc9f155a2cf42b99b19378d187a98f5c233aa830c6dfc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096684

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.903316onnx/unsafe0.096684onnx/nsfw0.060384onnx/nsfl0.036299
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Pixelated snail icon with purple shell featuring pink spiral, cyan body and eyestalks, white eyes on black outlines against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,214 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,055, response 581

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stencil outline (style, 0.80)
  • snail (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • cyan
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • central subject
  • text below

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a stylized snail. The shell is purple with a bright pink spiral pattern; the body and two eyestalks are cyan. Each eyestalk has a white circular eye at the top with a small black pupil. The entire figure uses thick black outlines on a solid gray background. Below the snail, pixelated text reads "Gary" in white letters with black outlines.

Description

  • Pixelated snail icon with purple shell featuring pink spiral, cyan body and eyestalks, white eyes on black outlines against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons collection identity
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple snail icon with pink spiral shell
  • cyan body snail Gary text
  • pixel art Gary snail
  • gray background Gary snail icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • stencil outline

Subjects

  • snail

Visible Text

  • Gary

Visually Supported Entities

  • Gary (text)

Wordwall

  • purple shell
  • pink spiral pattern
  • cyan body
  • two eyestalks
  • white eyes
  • black outlines
  • gray background
  • "Gary" text
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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
34608
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:15 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://ballericons.com/icon/34608.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011025220959id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/34608.gif