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Pixelated red bird perched atop black speech bubble with white text 'BALLIN' and red banner below.

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Pixelated red bird perched atop black speech bubble with white text 'BALLIN' and red banner below.

Pixelated red bird perched atop black speech bubble with white text 'BALLIN' and red banner below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bird perched on bubble
  • text centered on bubble
  • banner below bubble
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated red bird with yellow beak and dark eye perched atop rounded black speech bubble. White blocky text 'BALLIN' centered on bubble. Red banner with pixelated pattern below bubble. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. Background is solid white. Bird's head is slightly tilted. Banner has irregular left edge. Text is uppercase sans-serif. Bird's body is partially visible above bubble. Banner extends beyond bubble width. Pixelation creates soft edges on all shapes.

Description

  • Pixelated red bird perched atop black speech bubble with white text 'BALLIN' and red banner below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080615182659390548431
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red bird speech bubble ballin
  • ballin bird banner
  • pixel art bird text
  • red banner white background
  • bird perched bubble text
  • blocky text red bird
  • yellow beak black bubble
  • red bird white background

Objects

  • speech bubble

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • BALLIN

Wordwall

  • red bird
  • yellow beak
  • black speech bubble
  • white text
  • BALLIN
  • red banner
  • pixel art
  • solid white background
  • upright bird
  • text centered
  • banner below bubble
  • irregular left edge
  • blocky text
  • dark eye
  • tilted head
  • partial body
  • low-resolution
  • red patterned banner

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080615182659390548431
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b8fe9fe997344ed7e86df12a21d0d86a18321eb5db3a52339b2a7a5866ad83cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
b8fe9fe997344ed7
SHA-256
b8fe9fe997344ed7e86df12a21d0d86a18321eb5db3a52339b2a7a5866ad83cf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129850

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red bird perched atop black speech bubble with white text 'BALLIN' and red banner below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,997 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 810

Review tags

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • bird (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • dark blue

Composition

  • bird perched on bubble
  • text centered on bubble
  • banner below bubble
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated red bird with yellow beak and dark eye perched atop rounded black speech bubble. White blocky text 'BALLIN' centered on bubble. Red banner with pixelated pattern below bubble. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. Background is solid white. Bird's head is slightly tilted. Banner has irregular left edge. Text is uppercase sans-serif. Bird's body is partially visible above bubble. Banner extends beyond bubble width. Pixelation creates soft edges on all shapes.

Description

  • Pixelated red bird perched atop black speech bubble with white text 'BALLIN' and red banner below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080615182659390548431
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

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  • ballin bird banner
  • pixel art bird text
  • red banner white background
  • bird perched bubble text
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  • yellow beak black bubble
  • red bird white background

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  • speech bubble
  • banner

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  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • BALLIN

Wordwall

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  • yellow beak
  • black speech bubble
  • white text
  • BALLIN
  • red banner
  • pixel art
  • solid white background
  • upright bird
  • text centered
  • banner below bubble
  • irregular left edge
  • blocky text
  • dark eye
  • tilted head
  • partial body
  • low-resolution
  • red patterned banner
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20080615182659390548431
Archive entry
20080615182659390548431.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080615182659390548431.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080615182659390548431.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016