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Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt, arms raised in two distinct poses against gray background.

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Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt, arms raised in two distinct poses against gray background.

Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt, arms raised in two distinct poses against gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left icon hands open → right icon hands closed

Animation Summary

  • Character's hands transition from open to closed while arms remain raised.

Composition

  • two side-by-side icons
  • text below icons

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated character icons with white circular heads and yellow shirts. Left icon shows arms raised with hands open; right icon shows arms raised with hands closed. Both have black outlines, small purple accents on shoulders, and white text 'Tick Buddy' below. Gray background. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt, arms raised in two distinct poses against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 5341
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5341
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5341
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tick Buddy pixelated character
  • yellow shirt white head animation
  • hands open hands closed animation
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Visible Text

  • Tick Buddy

Wordwall

  • white circular head
  • yellow shirt
  • black outline
  • purple shoulder accents
  • arms raised
  • hands open
  • hands closed
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • Tick Buddy text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
5341
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:21 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
911 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c78cd2ac109caa3e64015909dcff09ff3ba4d8c2a8e50245e7a2300c8523ced6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Archive ID
c78cd2ac109caa3e
SHA-256
c78cd2ac109caa3e64015909dcff09ff3ba4d8c2a8e50245e7a2300c8523ced6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100696

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906814onnx/unsafe0.100696onnx/nsfw0.065923onnx/nsfl0.034773
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Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt, arms raised in two distinct poses against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:12 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,924 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,100, response 767

Review tags

  • arms raised (action, 0.80)
  • hands closed (action, 0.80)
  • hands open (action, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hands (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms raised
  • hands open
  • hands closed

Animation

  • left icon hands open → right icon hands closed

Animation Summary

  • Character's hands transition from open to closed while arms remain raised.

Colors

  • white
  • yellow
  • black
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • two side-by-side icons
  • text below icons

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated character icons with white circular heads and yellow shirts. Left icon shows arms raised with hands open; right icon shows arms raised with hands closed. Both have black outlines, small purple accents on shoulders, and white text 'Tick Buddy' below. Gray background. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt, arms raised in two distinct poses against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 5341
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5341
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5341
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tick Buddy pixelated character
  • yellow shirt white head animation
  • hands open hands closed animation
  • gray background pixel art

Objects

  • hands

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Tick Buddy

Wordwall

  • white circular head
  • yellow shirt
  • black outline
  • purple shoulder accents
  • arms raised
  • hands open
  • hands closed
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • Tick Buddy text
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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
5341
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:21 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/5341.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612141700id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/5341.gif