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Pixelated character with brown fedora and brown jacket, white face, standing against gray background with "ParaNoid Buddy" text below.

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Pixelated character with brown fedora and brown jacket, white face, standing against gray background with "ParaNoid Buddy" text below.

Pixelated character with brown fedora and brown jacket, white face, standing against gray background with "ParaNoid Buddy" text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayba…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • jacket pose changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • The jacket pose changes between frames: left icon shows more open jacket, right icon shows tighter jacket.

Composition

  • centered
  • two identical icons
  • text below

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated character icons side-by-side on gray background. Each icon shows a figure with white face, brown fedora, brown jacket, and brown pants. The figure's right arm is extended forward in a gesture. Below each icon, the text "ParaNoid Buddy" appears in pixelated font with underscore under "ParaNoid". The left icon's jacket has a slightly more open pose than the right icon's jacket. Both icons use a limited color palette of brown, white, and gray.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown fedora and brown jacket, white face, standing against gray background with "ParaNoid Buddy" text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown fedora pixel art
  • ParaNoid Buddy text
  • jacket pose difference
  • gray background pixel icon
  • 2000s digital character
  • buddy icon animation
  • pixelated text underscore
  • character arm extended

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 19304
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 19304
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • ParaNoid Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • ParaNoid Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown fedora
  • brown jacket
  • white face
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • underscore under text
  • right arm extended
  • jacket pose difference

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
19304
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/cb/cb599536df5412193ae22e471fd9a1bea3998d30ac4df9028a03321107d6572c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Archive ID
cb599536df541219
SHA-256
cb599536df5412193ae22e471fd9a1bea3998d30ac4df9028a03321107d6572c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091522

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912810onnx/unsafe0.091522onnx/nsfw0.051502onnx/nsfl0.040021
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Pixelated character with brown fedora and brown jacket, white face, standing against gray background with "ParaNoid Buddy" text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,419 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 840

Review tags

  • arm extended (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • fedora (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • jacket pose changes between frames (other, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arm extended

Animation

  • jacket pose changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • The jacket pose changes between frames: left icon shows more open jacket, right icon shows tighter jacket.

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • two identical icons
  • text below

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated character icons side-by-side on gray background. Each icon shows a figure with white face, brown fedora, brown jacket, and brown pants. The figure's right arm is extended forward in a gesture. Below each icon, the text "ParaNoid Buddy" appears in pixelated font with underscore under "ParaNoid". The left icon's jacket has a slightly more open pose than the right icon's jacket. Both icons use a limited color palette of brown, white, and gray.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown fedora and brown jacket, white face, standing against gray background with "ParaNoid Buddy" text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown fedora pixel art
  • ParaNoid Buddy text
  • jacket pose difference
  • gray background pixel icon
  • 2000s digital character
  • buddy icon animation
  • pixelated text underscore
  • character arm extended

Objects

  • fedora
  • jacket

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 19304
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 19304
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • ParaNoid Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • ParaNoid Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown fedora
  • brown jacket
  • white face
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • underscore under text
  • right arm extended
  • jacket pose difference
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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
19304
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:33 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/19304.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010619094512id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/19304.gif