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Pixelated icon of a figure in blue cap and black jacket with brown scarf, white face, underlined text V-Ice on gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a figure in blue cap and black jacket with brown scarf, white face, underlined text V-Ice on gray background.

Pixelated icon of a figure in blue cap and black jacket with brown scarf, white face, underlined text V-Ice on gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ball…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • right hand moves from near face to lowered to raised

Animation Summary

  • Right hand moves from near face to lowered to raised

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Gray background. Figure has white face, blue cap, black jacket, brown scarf. Text "V-Ice" with underscore below V. Top-left icon shows figure with right hand near face; top-right icon shows figure with right hand lowered; bottom icon shows figure with right hand raised. All icons share same figure and text. Pixelated rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a figure in blue cap and black jacket with brown scarf, white face, underlined text V-Ice on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • V-Ice

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cap white face black jacket brown scarf V-Ice
  • V-Ice underscore right hand raised
  • pixelated figure gray background
  • V-Ice text blue cap white face

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Right hand moves from near face to lowered to raised across three frames.

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • V-Ice

Wordwall

  • blue cap
  • white face
  • black jacket
  • brown scarf
  • V-Ice text
  • underscore under V
  • gray background
  • right hand near face
  • right hand lowered
  • right hand raised

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
23784
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
873 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c52c1ceb93be5e553136926dc6f004889a358ef386e39ceffdcd7cca6de5513c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Archive ID
c52c1ceb93be5e55
SHA-256
c52c1ceb93be5e553136926dc6f004889a358ef386e39ceffdcd7cca6de5513c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085626

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916210onnx/unsafe0.085626onnx/nsfw0.047088onnx/nsfl0.038538
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon of a figure in blue cap and black jacket with brown scarf, white face, underlined text V-Ice on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,727 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,066, response 707

Review tags

  • right hand lowered (action, 0.80)
  • right hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • right hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black jacket (object, 0.80)
  • blue cap (object, 0.80)
  • brown scarf (object, 0.80)
  • underscore (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • right hand near face
  • right hand lowered
  • right hand raised

Animation

  • right hand moves from near face to lowered to raised

Animation Summary

  • Right hand moves from near face to lowered to raised

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Gray background. Figure has white face, blue cap, black jacket, brown scarf. Text "V-Ice" with underscore below V. Top-left icon shows figure with right hand near face; top-right icon shows figure with right hand lowered; bottom icon shows figure with right hand raised. All icons share same figure and text. Pixelated rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a figure in blue cap and black jacket with brown scarf, white face, underlined text V-Ice on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • V-Ice

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cap white face black jacket brown scarf V-Ice
  • V-Ice underscore right hand raised
  • pixelated figure gray background
  • V-Ice text blue cap white face

Objects

  • blue cap
  • black jacket
  • brown scarf
  • underscore

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Right hand moves from near face to lowered to raised across three frames.

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • V-Ice

Wordwall

  • blue cap
  • white face
  • black jacket
  • brown scarf
  • V-Ice text
  • underscore under V
  • gray background
  • right hand near face
  • right hand lowered
  • right hand raised
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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
23784
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:15 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/23784.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010806141617id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/23784.gif