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Pixelated character with brown spiky hair, yellow shirt, and gray limbs holding a yellow object, next to a black rectangular symbol with two dots, on gray background.

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Pixelated character with brown spiky hair, yellow shirt, and gray limbs holding a yellow object, next to a black rectangular symbol with two dots, on gray background.

Pixelated character with brown spiky hair, yellow shirt, and gray limbs holding a yellow object, next to a black rectangular symbol with two dots, on gray background. 50×50 GIF AI…

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Action

Style

Color

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Composition

  • character centered-left
  • symbol right
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated character with brown spiky hair (top-left), white face, gray limbs, yellow shirt. Character holds yellow object in right hand. To right of character: black rectangular symbol with two black dots (top and bottom). Below character: "Electrocute" in bold black pixelated font (first letter underlined), "Buddy" in bold black pixelated font. All elements static. Colors: gray, brown, white, yellow, black. Style: 8-bit pixel art. Composition: character centered-left, symbol right, text below.

Description

Pixelated character with brown spiky hair, yellow shirt, and gray limbs holding a yellow object, next to a black rectangular symbol with two dots, 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 topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1423
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1423
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown spiky hair yellow shirt
  • yellow object black symbol
  • Electrocute Buddy text
  • 8-bit pixel art character
  • gray background character
  • black rectangular symbol two dots
  • underlined E text
  • character holding yellow object

Visible Text

  • Electrocute
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown spiky hair
  • yellow shirt
  • gray limbs
  • yellow object
  • black rectangular symbol
  • two black dots
  • gray background
  • bold black text
  • underlined E
  • 8-bit pixel art

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1423
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 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 02:48 UTC
Archive ID
d4b1b855a8e49ed7
SHA-256
d4b1b855a8e49ed7f63177fbf34690b00191ee51ae1cbea3e3a976c74f50dc4c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.089171

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Pixelated character with brown spiky hair, yellow shirt, and gray limbs holding a yellow object, next to a black rectangular symbol with two dots, on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:42 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,872 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,051, response 871

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • black rectangular symbol (object, 0.80)
  • yellow object (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • white
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • character centered-left
  • symbol right
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated character with brown spiky hair (top-left), white face, gray limbs, yellow shirt. Character holds yellow object in right hand. To right of character: black rectangular symbol with two black dots (top and bottom). Below character: "Electrocute" in bold black pixelated font (first letter underlined), "Buddy" in bold black pixelated font. All elements static. Colors: gray, brown, white, yellow, black. Style: 8-bit pixel art. Composition: character centered-left, symbol right, text below.

Description

Pixelated character with brown spiky hair, yellow shirt, and gray limbs holding a yellow object, next to a black rectangular symbol with two dots, 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 topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 1423
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 1423
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown spiky hair yellow shirt
  • yellow object black symbol
  • Electrocute Buddy text
  • 8-bit pixel art character
  • gray background character
  • black rectangular symbol two dots
  • underlined E text
  • character holding yellow object

Objects

  • yellow object
  • black rectangular symbol

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Electrocute
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • brown spiky hair
  • yellow shirt
  • gray limbs
  • yellow object
  • black rectangular symbol
  • two black dots
  • gray background
  • bold black text
  • underlined E
  • 8-bit pixel art
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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
1423
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 02:48 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/1423.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612105948id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/1423.gif