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Pixel art animation of a yellow figure lighting fireworks against a gray starry background with green grass, text reads "Firework Buddy" below.

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Pixel art animation of a yellow figure lighting fireworks against a gray starry background with green grass, text reads "Firework Buddy" below.

Pixel art animation of a yellow figure lighting fireworks against a gray starry background with green grass, text reads "Firework Buddy" below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • firework lights
  • yellow spark appears
  • firework extinguishes
  • red starburst appears
  • red X appears
  • red starburst reappears

Animation Summary

  • Firework lights, spark appears, extinguishes, starburst appears, X appears, starburst reappears

Composition

  • horizontal
  • three
  • six
  • text bar below

Dense Caption

Gray background with white dots resembling stars and gray crescent shapes. Green grass strip at bottom. Yellow figure with white head holds red firework. First frame: firework unlit. Second frame: firework lit with yellow spark. Third frame: firework extinguished. Fourth frame: red starburst. Fifth frame: red X. Sixth frame: red starburst. Text "Firework Buddy" in white pixelated font on gray bar below each frame. Animation cycles through firework lighting, spark, extinguish, starburst, X, starburst.

Description

Pixel art animation of a yellow figure lighting fireworks against a gray starry background with green grass, text reads "Firework Buddy" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • firework buddy animation
  • yellow figure firework
  • gray starry background
  • red starburst firework
  • pixel art firework
  • buddy icon animation
  • aim firework
  • celebratory firework

Preprocessing Notes

  • repeated grid layout
  • consistent text bar
  • crescent shapes in background
  • quarantined composition: six rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: horizontal grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 9400
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 9400
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Firework Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • red firework
  • gray starry background
  • green grass
  • white text
  • Firework Buddy
  • starburst
  • red X
  • yellow spark
  • crescent shapes
  • pixel art
  • animation
  • gray bar
  • white dots
  • red starburst
  • gray background
  • green grass strip

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
9400
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/bab04b8a55c304379bf0f2aa7b1fb71d9e4359cd923702efed56141182e3e46e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Archive ID
bab04b8a55c30437
SHA-256
bab04b8a55c304379bf0f2aa7b1fb71d9e4359cd923702efed56141182e3e46e
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
0.081921

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921007onnx/unsafe0.081921onnx/nsfw0.044884onnx/nsfl0.037037
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Pixel art animation of a yellow figure lighting fireworks against a gray starry background with green grass, text reads "Firework Buddy" below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:40 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,342 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,068, response 1,041

Review tags

  • extinguishing (action, 0.80)
  • lighting (action, 0.80)
  • sparking (action, 0.80)
  • starbursting (action, 0.80)
  • x ing (action, 0.80)
  • crescent shapes (object, 0.80)
  • grass (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • firework (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • lighting
  • sparking
  • extinguishing
  • starbursting
  • X-ing

Animation

  • firework lights
  • yellow spark appears
  • firework extinguishes
  • red starburst appears
  • red X appears
  • red starburst reappears

Animation Summary

  • Firework lights, spark appears, extinguishes, starburst appears, X appears, starburst reappears

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • yellow
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • horizontal
  • three
  • six
  • text bar below

Dense Caption

Gray background with white dots resembling stars and gray crescent shapes. Green grass strip at bottom. Yellow figure with white head holds red firework. First frame: firework unlit. Second frame: firework lit with yellow spark. Third frame: firework extinguished. Fourth frame: red starburst. Fifth frame: red X. Sixth frame: red starburst. Text "Firework Buddy" in white pixelated font on gray bar below each frame. Animation cycles through firework lighting, spark, extinguish, starburst, X, starburst.

Description

Pixel art animation of a yellow figure lighting fireworks against a gray starry background with green grass, text reads "Firework Buddy" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • celebratory
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • firework buddy animation
  • yellow figure firework
  • gray starry background
  • red starburst firework
  • pixel art firework
  • buddy icon animation
  • aim firework
  • celebratory firework

Objects

  • firework
  • grass
  • stars
  • crescent shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • repeated grid layout
  • consistent text bar
  • crescent shapes in background
  • quarantined composition: six rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: horizontal grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 9400
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 9400
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • firework

Visible Text

  • Firework Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white head
  • red firework
  • gray starry background
  • green grass
  • white text
  • Firework Buddy
  • starburst
  • red X
  • yellow spark
  • crescent shapes
  • pixel art
  • animation
  • gray bar
  • white dots
  • red starburst
  • gray background
  • green grass strip
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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
9400
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:49 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/9400.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613134152id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/9400.gif