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Pixelated image with a central yellow figure, four rainbow spiral patterns, and bold text reading 'Tippy HARD!!' on a gray background.

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Pixelated image with a central yellow figure, four rainbow spiral patterns, and bold text reading 'Tippy HARD!!' on a gray background.

Pixelated image with a central yellow figure, four rainbow spiral patterns, and bold text reading 'Tippy HARD!!' on a gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Baller…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • four spirals
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background with six distinct elements: four rainbow spiral patterns (two circular, two oval) with red, green, blue, yellow, purple, and cyan pixels; a central yellow figure with black outline, white circular head, and outstretched arms; bold black-and-white pixelated text 'Tippy HARD!!' below the figure. Spiral patterns have clockwise color transitions. Text uses blocky, pixelated font with white outlines on black letters. Figure's arms extend horizontally. Spiral patterns are positioned top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right relative to the figure.

Description

  • Pixelated image with a central yellow figure, four rainbow spiral patterns, and bold text reading 'Tippy HARD!!' on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 16149
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 16149
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow spirals yellow figure
  • Tippy HARD!! pixelated text
  • gray background four spirals
  • yellow figure outstretched arms

Visible Text

  • Tippy HARD!!

Wordwall

  • rainbow spirals
  • yellow figure
  • gray background
  • Tippy HARD!! text
  • pixelated font
  • clockwise spirals
  • white head
  • outstretched arms
  • blocky text
  • four spirals

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
16149
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d59a6b077454e8b9b3b50d2c938912d451543134b06f736bcfc880c366456a8f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 03:43 UTC
Archive ID
d59a6b077454e8b9
SHA-256
d59a6b077454e8b9b3b50d2c938912d451543134b06f736bcfc880c366456a8f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074456

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with a central yellow figure, four rainbow spiral patterns, and bold text reading 'Tippy HARD!!' on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,415 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,057, response 740

Review tags

  • outstretched arms (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • rainbow spirals (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • outstretched arms

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • yellow
  • purple
  • cyan

Composition

  • central figure
  • four spirals
  • text below

Dense Caption

Gray background with six distinct elements: four rainbow spiral patterns (two circular, two oval) with red, green, blue, yellow, purple, and cyan pixels; a central yellow figure with black outline, white circular head, and outstretched arms; bold black-and-white pixelated text 'Tippy HARD!!' below the figure. Spiral patterns have clockwise color transitions. Text uses blocky, pixelated font with white outlines on black letters. Figure's arms extend horizontally. Spiral patterns are positioned top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right relative to the figure.

Description

  • Pixelated image with a central yellow figure, four rainbow spiral patterns, and bold text reading 'Tippy HARD!!' on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 16149
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 16149
  • 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Tippy HARD!! pixelated text
  • gray background four spirals
  • yellow figure outstretched arms

Objects

  • rainbow spirals

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • rainbow spirals

Visible Text

  • Tippy HARD!!

Wordwall

  • rainbow spirals
  • yellow figure
  • gray background
  • Tippy HARD!! text
  • pixelated font
  • clockwise spirals
  • white head
  • outstretched arms
  • blocky text
  • four spirals
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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
16149
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:43 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/16149.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010607205656id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/16149.gif