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Pixelated icon of a figure in a yellow shirt and checkered hat with arms raised, below text reading "Viet Buddy" on gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a figure in a yellow shirt and checkered hat with arms raised, below text reading "Viet Buddy" on gray background.

Pixelated icon of a figure in a yellow shirt and checkered hat with arms raised, below text reading "Viet Buddy" on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Balleric…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered above text
  • text spans full width
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with white face, black outline, wearing yellow shirt with black trim and checkered hat in brown and beige tones. Arms raised in motion. Below figure, text "Viet Buddy" in black and white pixelated font with white outline. Gray background. No visible animation. Figure has no facial features. Hat is conical. Shirt has short sleeves. Text is lowercase "Viet" followed by uppercase "Buddy" with underscore under "Viet".

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a figure in a yellow shirt and checkered hat with arms raised, below text reading "Viet Buddy" on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback
  • Buddy-Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow shirt checkered hat figure
  • Viet Buddy pixel art
  • gray background pixel icon
  • arms raised figure text

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Viet Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • checkered hat
  • white face
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • arms raised
  • conical hat
  • black trim
  • underscore under text
  • no facial features
  • brown and beige hat
  • short sleeves
  • text reads Viet Buddy
  • white outline on text
  • black and white font
  • figure with no eyes
  • hat has checkered pattern
  • text is lowercase and uppercase
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1474
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
846 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/cae918fdd9a112528e77c03b40cee251365ea105526c41476accb2c44bdd2706.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:19 UTC
Archive ID
cae918fdd9a11252
SHA-256
cae918fdd9a112528e77c03b40cee251365ea105526c41476accb2c44bdd2706
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087061

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a figure in a yellow shirt and checkered hat with arms raised, below text reading "Viet Buddy" on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,550 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,048, response 743

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms raised

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • beige

Composition

  • figure centered above text
  • text spans full width
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with white face, black outline, wearing yellow shirt with black trim and checkered hat in brown and beige tones. Arms raised in motion. Below figure, text "Viet Buddy" in black and white pixelated font with white outline. Gray background. No visible animation. Figure has no facial features. Hat is conical. Shirt has short sleeves. Text is lowercase "Viet" followed by uppercase "Buddy" with underscore under "Viet".

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a figure in a yellow shirt and checkered hat with arms raised, below text reading "Viet Buddy" on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • Wayback
  • Buddy-Icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow shirt checkered hat figure
  • Viet Buddy pixel art
  • gray background pixel icon
  • arms raised figure text

Objects

  • hat
  • shirt

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Viet Buddy

Wordwall

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  • checkered hat
  • white face
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • arms raised
  • conical hat
  • black trim
  • underscore under text
  • no facial features
  • brown and beige hat
  • short sleeves
  • text reads Viet Buddy
  • white outline on text
  • black and white font
  • figure with no eyes
  • hat has checkered pattern
  • text is lowercase and uppercase
  • pixelated rendering
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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
1474
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:19 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/1474.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140453id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1474.gif