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Pixelated graphic with repeating text and colorful shapes on black background, animated by shifting positions of elements.

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Pixelated graphic with repeating text and colorful shapes on black background, animated by shifting positions of elements.

Pixelated graphic with repeating text and colorful shapes on black background, animated by shifting positions of elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballerico…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

Shapes shift positions across frames while text remains static; top-left pink circle moves right, central blue circle shifts downward, bottom-right yellow outline changes to green oval.

Composition

  • central text repetition
  • scattered shapes

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple instances of yellow-green "Rub a Dub" text in blocky pixel font. Shapes include pink dashed circles (some solid), blue solid circles, green oval outlines, orange vertical bars, red V-shapes, white dots, and colored squares. Elements shift position across frames: top-left pink circle moves right; central blue circle shifts downward; bottom-right yellow outline changes to green oval. Text remains static while shapes animate.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with repeating text and colorful shapes on black background, animated by shifting positions of elements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 43491
  • 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

  • 43491
  • Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • 2000s
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • Wayback

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Rub a Dub" pixel art
  • yellow-green blocky font black background
  • pink dashed circles blue solid circles green ovals
  • shape shifting animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Visible Text

  • Rub a Dub

Wordwall

  • "Rub a Dub" text
  • yellow-green blocky font
  • black background
  • pink dashed circles
  • blue solid circles
  • green oval outlines
  • orange vertical bars
  • red V-shapes
  • white dots
  • colored squares

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
43491
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b5543e3e00a899d9c3d1e9674867326f2e52283433410289558568a8c5f5ccff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Archive ID
b5543e3e00a899d9
SHA-256
b5543e3e00a899d9c3d1e9674867326f2e52283433410289558568a8c5f5ccff
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 08:57 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002834

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.002834falseharassment0.000021falseviolence0.000011falseviolence/graphic0.000009falseillicit0.000006falseself-harm0.000006falsesexual/minors0.000004falsehate0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083416

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926890onnx/unsafe0.083416onnx/nsfw0.047270onnx/nsfl0.036146
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated graphic with repeating text and colorful shapes on black background, animated by shifting positions of elements.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:50 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,405 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,132, response 664

Review tags

  • shapes shift positions (action, 0.80)
  • text remains static (action, 0.80)
  • blue solid circles (object, 0.80)
  • colored squares (object, 0.80)
  • green oval outlines (object, 0.80)
  • orange vertical bars (object, 0.80)
  • pink dashed circles (object, 0.80)
  • red v shapes (object, 0.80)
  • rub a dub text (object, 0.80)
  • white dots (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • shapes shift positions
  • text remains static

Animation Summary

Shapes shift positions across frames while text remains static; top-left pink circle moves right, central blue circle shifts downward, bottom-right yellow outline changes to green oval.

Colors

  • black
  • yellow-green
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • orange
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • central text repetition
  • scattered shapes

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple instances of yellow-green "Rub a Dub" text in blocky pixel font. Shapes include pink dashed circles (some solid), blue solid circles, green oval outlines, orange vertical bars, red V-shapes, white dots, and colored squares. Elements shift position across frames: top-left pink circle moves right; central blue circle shifts downward; bottom-right yellow outline changes to green oval. Text remains static while shapes animate.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with repeating text and colorful shapes on black background, animated by shifting positions of elements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 43491
  • 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

  • 43491
  • Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • 2000s
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • Wayback

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Rub a Dub" pixel art
  • yellow-green blocky font black background
  • pink dashed circles blue solid circles green ovals
  • shape shifting animation

Objects

  • "Rub a Dub" text
  • pink dashed circles
  • blue solid circles
  • green oval outlines
  • orange vertical bars
  • red V-shapes
  • white dots
  • colored squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • Rub a Dub

Wordwall

  • "Rub a Dub" text
  • yellow-green blocky font
  • black background
  • pink dashed circles
  • blue solid circles
  • green oval outlines
  • orange vertical bars
  • red V-shapes
  • white dots
  • colored squares
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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
43491
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:59 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/43491.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020326214552id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/43491.gif