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Pixelated graphic shows five cartoon figures with white faces and black outlines above text reading "Empire Records" on gray background.

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Pixelated graphic shows five cartoon figures with white faces and black outlines above text reading "Empire Records" on gray background.

Pixelated graphic shows five cartoon figures with white faces and black outlines above text reading "Empire Records" on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ball…

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Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • horizontal row of five figures above text

Dense Caption

Five pixel-art figures stand in a row: first figure has brown hair, red clothing; second figure has blue clothing; third figure has yellow checkered pattern; fourth figure has greenish-yellow hair. All have large circular white eyes with small black pupils. Figures wear dark outlines and colored bodies on gray background. Below them, text reads "Empire Records" in blocky pixel font with underscore under "Empire."

Description

  • Pixelated graphic shows five cartoon figures with white faces and black outlines above text reading "Empire Records" on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 11470
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 11470
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • 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

Named Entities

  • Empire Records

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • empire records cartoon figures pixel art
  • five cartoon figures empire records text
  • gray background white faces black outlines

Visible Text

  • Empire
  • Records

Wordwall

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  • blue clothing
  • yellow checkered pattern
  • greenish-yellow hair
  • large circular eyes
  • gray background
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
11470
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 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 01:40 UTC
Archive ID
c86572ee6f5eaa09
SHA-256
c86572ee6f5eaa0916e1728011797459ea25768e0f0a3c6a485f9d7769f86831
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 05:12 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000027

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated graphic shows five cartoon figures with white faces and black outlines above text reading "Empire Records" on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:04 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,754 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,056, response 700

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • greenish yellow (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon figures (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • red
  • blue
  • yellow
  • greenish-yellow

Composition

  • horizontal row of five figures above text

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated graphic shows five cartoon figures with white faces and black outlines above text reading "Empire Records" on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 11470
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 11470
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • 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

Named Entities

  • Empire Records

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Style

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  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

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  • Records

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  • white faces
  • black outlines
  • brown hair
  • red clothing
  • blue clothing
  • yellow checkered pattern
  • greenish-yellow hair
  • large circular eyes
  • gray background
  • blocky 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
11470
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:40 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/11470.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612072518id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/11470.gif