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Pixelated green figure with blue headband holds two white candles on brown stands against gray background, below text "Leo Buddy".

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Pixelated green figure with blue headband holds two white candles on brown stands against gray background, below text "Leo Buddy".

Pixelated green figure with blue headband holds two white candles on brown stands against gray background, below text "Leo Buddy". 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • candles held horizontally

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated figure with green torso, blue headband, and blue accents on arms. Figure holds two white candles on brown stands, one in each hand. Candles are vertical, stands are brown with flat tops. Below figure, text "Leo Buddy" in black and white pixelated font. Text has white outline and black fill. Figure's pose is static with arms extended horizontally. Colors include green, blue, brown, white, black, and gray. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible motion or animation. Text is fully legible.

Description

  • Pixelated green figure with blue headband holds two white candles on brown stands against gray background, below text "Leo Buddy".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 280
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 280
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green figure blue headband candles
  • Leo Buddy pixel art
  • candle stands text gray background
  • 8-bit figure holding candles

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Leo Buddy

Wordwall

  • green torso
  • blue headband
  • white candles
  • brown candle stands
  • gray background
  • black and white text
  • pixelated figure
  • text "Leo Buddy"

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
280
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:40 UTC
Archive ID
c45323f5fa185a0e
SHA-256
c45323f5fa185a0efab0edd057d9eda6c9e6e4cc269d2b87d11df76dfb652391
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087402

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green figure with blue headband holds two white candles on brown stands against gray background, below text "Leo Buddy".

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,911 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,045, response 714

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • candle stands (object, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text below figure
  • candles held horizontally

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated figure with green torso, blue headband, and blue accents on arms. Figure holds two white candles on brown stands, one in each hand. Candles are vertical, stands are brown with flat tops. Below figure, text "Leo Buddy" in black and white pixelated font. Text has white outline and black fill. Figure's pose is static with arms extended horizontally. Colors include green, blue, brown, white, black, and gray. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible motion or animation. Text is fully legible.

Description

  • Pixelated green figure with blue headband holds two white candles on brown stands against gray background, below text "Leo Buddy".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 280
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 280
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

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  • Leo Buddy pixel art
  • candle stands text gray background
  • 8-bit figure holding candles

Objects

  • candles
  • candle stands

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Leo Buddy

Wordwall

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  • blue headband
  • white candles
  • brown candle stands
  • gray background
  • black and white text
  • pixelated figure
  • text "Leo Buddy"
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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
280
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:40 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/280.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612054724id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/280.gif