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Pixelated buddy icon shows Medusa with green snake hair, yellow hand, and white stone head, with variations in head color and hand position across frames.

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Pixelated buddy icon shows Medusa with green snake hair, yellow hand, and white stone head, with variations in head color and hand position across frames.

Pixelated buddy icon shows Medusa with green snake hair, yellow hand, and white stone head, with variations in head color and hand position across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM b…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • hand gesture

Animation

  • head color change
  • eye color change

Animation Summary

  • The head changes from white to gray and the eyes change from black to red across frames.

Composition

  • single figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated Medusa figure with green snake hair, a yellow hand, and a white stone head. In some frames, the head is white with black eyes; in others, it is gray with red eyes. The hand is yellow and positioned in a gesture. The background is solid gray. The text 'Medusa' appears below each icon. The animation shows the head changing from white to gray and the eyes changing from black to red.

Description

Pixelated buddy icon shows Medusa with green snake hair, yellow hand, and white stone head, with variations in head color and hand position across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Medusa snake hair yellow hand
  • Medusa white head red eyes
  • Medusa gray head black eyes
  • Medusa text below
  • Medusa pixelated
  • Medusa animation
  • Medusa solid gray background
  • Medusa eye color change

Objects

  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm only visual changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • Medusa

Visually Supported Entities

  • Medusa

Wordwall

  • Medusa
  • green snake hair
  • yellow hand
  • white stone head
  • gray stone head
  • black eyes
  • red eyes
  • solid gray background
  • text 'Medusa'

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
21377
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/d4/d44edbc0151f0db2a51312f40a309dece7179802015b62bcae7d714c98a94e9c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:54 UTC
Archive ID
d44edbc0151f0db2
SHA-256
d44edbc0151f0db2a51312f40a309dece7179802015b62bcae7d714c98a94e9c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089842

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917534onnx/unsafe0.089842onnx/nsfw0.051546onnx/nsfl0.038296
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated buddy icon shows Medusa with green snake hair, yellow hand, and white stone head, with variations in head color and hand position across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,535 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 811

Review tags

  • eyes change color (action, 0.80)
  • hand gesture (action, 0.80)
  • head changes color (action, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • mythological (mood, 0.80)
  • hand (object, 0.80)
  • snake hair (object, 0.80)
  • stone head (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • medusa (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head changes color
  • eyes change color
  • hand gesture

Animation

  • head color change
  • eye color change

Animation Summary

  • The head changes from white to gray and the eyes change from black to red across frames.

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • single figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated Medusa figure with green snake hair, a yellow hand, and a white stone head. In some frames, the head is white with black eyes; in others, it is gray with red eyes. The hand is yellow and positioned in a gesture. The background is solid gray. The text 'Medusa' appears below each icon. The animation shows the head changing from white to gray and the eyes changing from black to red.

Description

Pixelated buddy icon shows Medusa with green snake hair, yellow hand, and white stone head, with variations in head color and hand position across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • mysterious
  • mythological

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Medusa snake hair yellow hand
  • Medusa white head red eyes
  • Medusa gray head black eyes
  • Medusa text below
  • Medusa pixelated
  • Medusa animation
  • Medusa solid gray background
  • Medusa eye color change

Objects

  • snake hair
  • stone head
  • hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm only visual changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • 2D
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • Medusa

Visible Text

  • Medusa

Visually Supported Entities

  • Medusa

Wordwall

  • Medusa
  • green snake hair
  • yellow hand
  • white stone head
  • gray stone head
  • black eyes
  • red eyes
  • solid gray background
  • text 'Medusa'
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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
21377
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:54 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/21377.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010907155638id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/21377.gif