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Pixelated character with brown hair, red bandana, white shirt, and black outline holding a small object against gray background.

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Pixelated character with brown hair, red bandana, white shirt, and black outline holding a small object against gray background.

Pixelated character with brown hair, red bandana, white shirt, and black outline holding a small object against gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has light skin tone. Brown hair under red bandana. White short-sleeve shirt. Black outline around body. Arms extended forward; hands hold dark circular object. Below character: pixelated text "Ryu" in black and white with jagged edges.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair, red bandana, white shirt, and black outline holding a small object against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • 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

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • 2000s
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 393
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 393

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Named Entities

  • Ryu

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character with red bandana
  • text Ryu pixel art
  • character holding dark object gray background
  • brown hair white shirt black outline

Visible Text

  • Ryu

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ryu (text)

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art style
  • brown hair
  • red bandana
  • white shirt
  • black outline
  • arms extended
  • dark circular object
  • text "Ryu"
  • jagged text edges

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
393
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
748 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/c1/c122cf96c49ca3902891f1e30062693d43901432f7210d0152931e3e1f1e1570.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:40 UTC
Archive ID
c122cf96c49ca390
SHA-256
c122cf96c49ca3902891f1e30062693d43901432f7210d0152931e3e1f1e1570
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072895

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927105onnx/unsafe0.072895onnx/nsfw0.039213onnx/nsfl0.033682
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Pixelated character with brown hair, red bandana, white shirt, and black outline holding a small object against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 08:18 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,943 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 634

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dark circular object (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixel art style. Character has light skin tone. Brown hair under red bandana. White short-sleeve shirt. Black outline around body. Arms extended forward; hands hold dark circular object. Below character: pixelated text "Ryu" in black and white with jagged edges.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair, red bandana, white shirt, and black outline holding a small object against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • 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

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • 2000s
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 393
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 393

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Named Entities

  • Ryu

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character with red bandana
  • text Ryu pixel art
  • character holding dark object gray background
  • brown hair white shirt black outline

Objects

  • dark circular object

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Ryu

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ryu (text)

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • pixel art style
  • brown hair
  • red bandana
  • white shirt
  • black outline
  • arms extended
  • dark circular object
  • text "Ryu"
  • jagged text edges
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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
393
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:40 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/393.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612051816id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/393.gif