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Pixel art of two cartoon characters on a blue background with text below; left character has orange-and-black stripes, right has yellow spiky hair and red-black stripes.

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Pixel art of two cartoon characters on a blue background with text below; left character has orange-and-black stripes, right has yellow spiky hair and red-black stripes.

Pixel art of two cartoon characters on a blue background with text below; left character has orange-and-black stripes, right has yellow spiky hair and red-black stripes. 50×50 GIF…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • text below
  • horizontal division

Dense Caption

Blue background above a gray horizontal band. Left character: white face with black eyes, orange-and-black striped body, black-and-orange striped tail, orange-and-black striped arms, black outline. Right character: white face with black eyes, yellow spiky hair, red-and-black striped shirt, black outline. Gray band below contains black pixelated text: 'Calvin and Hobbes' with white outline. No animation. All elements are static.

Description

Pixel art of two cartoon characters on a blue background with text below; left character has orange-and-black stripes, right has yellow spiky hair and red-black stripes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

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 topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Calvin and Hobbes pixel art
  • Hobbes striped tail
  • Calvin red black stripes
  • Calvin and Hobbes blue background
  • Hobbes orange black stripes
  • Calvin yellow spiky hair
  • Calvin and Hobbes text band
  • Hobbes white face black eyes

Visible Text

  • Calvin and Hobbes

Visually Supported Entities

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • gray horizontal band
  • white face
  • black eyes
  • orange-and-black stripes
  • yellow spiky hair
  • red-and-black stripes
  • black outline
  • pixelated text
  • Calvin and Hobbes
  • static image
  • two characters
  • striped tail
  • striped arms
  • text band
  • white outline
  • black text
  • orange tail stripes
  • yellow hair spikes
  • red shirt stripes

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
30321
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d6288d1f7216df4446cdf58bde5cd62600406ec1f657877e599894b069eaf4c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:51 UTC
Archive ID
d6288d1f7216df44
SHA-256
d6288d1f7216df4446cdf58bde5cd62600406ec1f657877e599894b069eaf4c0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082289

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art of two cartoon characters on a blue background with text below; left character has orange-and-black stripes, right has yellow spiky hair and red-black stripes.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,726 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 728

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • calvin (subject, 0.80)
  • hobbes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • orange
  • yellow
  • red

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • text below
  • horizontal division

Dense Caption

Blue background above a gray horizontal band. Left character: white face with black eyes, orange-and-black striped body, black-and-orange striped tail, orange-and-black striped arms, black outline. Right character: white face with black eyes, yellow spiky hair, red-and-black striped shirt, black outline. Gray band below contains black pixelated text: 'Calvin and Hobbes' with white outline. No animation. All elements are static.

Description

Pixel art of two cartoon characters on a blue background with text below; left character has orange-and-black stripes, right has yellow spiky hair and red-black stripes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

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 topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Calvin and Hobbes pixel art
  • Hobbes striped tail
  • Calvin red black stripes
  • Calvin and Hobbes blue background
  • Hobbes orange black stripes
  • Calvin yellow spiky hair
  • Calvin and Hobbes text band
  • Hobbes white face black eyes

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Subjects

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

Visible Text

  • Calvin and Hobbes

Visually Supported Entities

  • Calvin
  • Hobbes

Wordwall

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  • gray horizontal band
  • white face
  • black eyes
  • orange-and-black stripes
  • yellow spiky hair
  • red-and-black stripes
  • black outline
  • pixelated text
  • Calvin and Hobbes
  • static image
  • two characters
  • striped tail
  • striped arms
  • text band
  • white outline
  • black text
  • orange tail stripes
  • yellow hair spikes
  • red shirt stripes
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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
30321
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:51 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

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