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Pixel art icon shows a yellow figure with white head holding a beige object connected to a beige computer with blue screen, below text 'Hacker Buddy' on gray background.

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Pixel art icon shows a yellow figure with white head holding a beige object connected to a beige computer with blue screen, below text 'Hacker Buddy' on gray background.

Pixel art icon shows a yellow figure with white head holding a beige object connected to a beige computer with blue screen, below text 'Hacker Buddy' on gray background. 50×50 GIF…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left figure
  • right computer
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixel art icon on solid gray background. Left side: yellow figure with white circular head, holding beige object connected by beige cable to beige computer. Computer has black outline, beige base with two horizontal black lines, beige monitor with two horizontal black lines, and bright cyan vertical bar on left edge of monitor. Below icon: 'Hacker' in large black-and-white pixelated font, 'Buddy' in smaller black-and-white pixelated font. All elements are static, no animation. Colors include gray, yellow, white, beige, black, cyan. Style is retro 8-bit pixel art with blocky, low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixel art icon shows a yellow figure with white head holding a beige object connected to a beige computer with blue screen, below text 'Hacker Buddy' on gray background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 3246
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8787
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 3246
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8787

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure computer cyan monitor
  • Hacker Buddy pixel art
  • beige cable connected
  • 8-bit retro icon
  • gray background pixel art
  • computer with cyan bar
  • Hacker Buddy text
  • yellow head white circle

Visible Text

  • Hacker
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white circular head
  • beige object
  • beige cable
  • beige computer
  • black outline
  • beige base
  • two horizontal black lines
  • beige monitor
  • cyan vertical bar
  • gray background
  • Hacker text
  • Buddy text
  • pixel art
  • static
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution
  • black-and-white font
  • retro style

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
3246
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:57 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
8787
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:47 UTC

Original record Source download

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/b2/b28d5fd78f12709e89bb9ef68c7c88d61cad1d1a8af76b7f9b5c34c559f6c6a2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:57 UTC
Archive ID
b28d5fd78f12709e
SHA-256
b28d5fd78f12709e89bb9ef68c7c88d61cad1d1a8af76b7f9b5c34c559f6c6a2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 09:18 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098619

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.901381onnx/unsafe0.098619onnx/nsfw0.055536onnx/nsfl0.043083
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art icon shows a yellow figure with white head holding a beige object connected to a beige computer with blue screen, below text 'Hacker Buddy' on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,414 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 922

Review tags

  • connected (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • beige base (object, 0.80)
  • beige cable (object, 0.80)
  • beige computer (object, 0.80)
  • beige monitor (object, 0.80)
  • beige object (object, 0.80)
  • cyan vertical bar (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • computer (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • connected

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • beige
  • black
  • cyan

Composition

  • left figure
  • right computer
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixel art icon on solid gray background. Left side: yellow figure with white circular head, holding beige object connected by beige cable to beige computer. Computer has black outline, beige base with two horizontal black lines, beige monitor with two horizontal black lines, and bright cyan vertical bar on left edge of monitor. Below icon: 'Hacker' in large black-and-white pixelated font, 'Buddy' in smaller black-and-white pixelated font. All elements are static, no animation. Colors include gray, yellow, white, beige, black, cyan. Style is retro 8-bit pixel art with blocky, low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixel art icon shows a yellow figure with white head holding a beige object connected to a beige computer with blue screen, below text 'Hacker Buddy' on gray background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 3246
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8787
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 3246
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8787

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figure computer cyan monitor
  • Hacker Buddy pixel art
  • beige cable connected
  • 8-bit retro icon
  • gray background pixel art
  • computer with cyan bar
  • Hacker Buddy text
  • yellow head white circle

Objects

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  • beige cable
  • beige computer
  • beige base
  • beige monitor
  • cyan vertical bar

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • computer

Visible Text

  • Hacker
  • Buddy

Wordwall

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  • beige computer
  • black outline
  • beige base
  • two horizontal black lines
  • beige monitor
  • cyan vertical bar
  • gray background
  • Hacker text
  • Buddy text
  • pixel art
  • static
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution
  • black-and-white font
  • retro style
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Full source records (2)

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
3246
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:57 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/3246.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612141102id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/3246.gif

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
8787
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:47 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/8787.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613132812id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/8787.gif