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Pixelated character with brown hair and red shirt, two versions showing different facial expressions beneath text reading Pringles Buddy.

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Pixelated character with brown hair and red shirt, two versions showing different facial expressions beneath text reading Pringles Buddy.

Pixelated character with brown hair and red shirt, two versions showing different facial expressions beneath text reading Pringles Buddy. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wa…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • facial expression change from closed eyes to open mouth

Animation Summary

  • Character's facial expression changes from closed eyes to open mouth

Composition

  • three versions arranged vertically on gray background

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art character in red short-sleeve shirt. Top-left version: white face with dark brown eyebrows, closed eyes, brown mustache. Top-right version: same face with open mouth showing teeth, wider smile. Bottom version: larger head, white face with wide-open mouth showing teeth and tongue, brown mustache. All versions have brown hair styled in short cut. Text below each character reads "Pringles" above "Buddy" in black pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair and red shirt, two versions showing different facial expressions beneath text reading Pringles Buddy.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • attitude
  • celebrities
  • college
  • holidays
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Pringles Buddy pixel art
  • red shirt brown hair mustache
  • gray background Pringles text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's facial expression changes from closed eyes to open mouth across three frames.
  • quarantined animation: facial expression change from closed eyes to open mouth across three frames

Visible Text

  • Pringles
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red shirt
  • closed eyes
  • open mouth
  • mustache
  • gray background
  • Pringles text
  • Buddy text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
31125
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b50595d2a35dc8e87dfccaa915d3b2c6d04c7e3802813e358df26a035aca8e34.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:53 UTC
Archive ID
b50595d2a35dc8e8
SHA-256
b50595d2a35dc8e87dfccaa915d3b2c6d04c7e3802813e358df26a035aca8e34
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089239

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915726onnx/unsafe0.089239onnx/nsfw0.050698onnx/nsfl0.038541
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with brown hair and red shirt, two versions showing different facial expressions beneath text reading Pringles Buddy.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,421 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 566

Review tags

  • grinning (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • mustache (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • grinning

Animation

  • facial expression change from closed eyes to open mouth

Animation Summary

  • Character's facial expression changes from closed eyes to open mouth

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • three versions arranged vertically on gray background

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art character in red short-sleeve shirt. Top-left version: white face with dark brown eyebrows, closed eyes, brown mustache. Top-right version: same face with open mouth showing teeth, wider smile. Bottom version: larger head, white face with wide-open mouth showing teeth and tongue, brown mustache. All versions have brown hair styled in short cut. Text below each character reads "Pringles" above "Buddy" in black pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair and red shirt, two versions showing different facial expressions beneath text reading Pringles Buddy.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • attitude
  • celebrities
  • college
  • holidays
  • humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Pringles Buddy pixel art
  • red shirt brown hair mustache
  • gray background Pringles text

Objects

  • mustache

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's facial expression changes from closed eyes to open mouth across three frames.
  • quarantined animation: facial expression change from closed eyes to open mouth across three frames

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Pringles
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red shirt
  • closed eyes
  • open mouth
  • mustache
  • gray background
  • Pringles text
  • Buddy 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
31125
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:53 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/31125.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010910130758id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/31125.gif