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Pixelated icon shows a torch on a pedestal with text 'Lipscomb Buddy' below, all on gray background.

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Pixelated icon shows a torch on a pedestal with text 'Lipscomb Buddy' below, all on gray background.

Pixelated icon shows a torch on a pedestal with text 'Lipscomb Buddy' below, all on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs, Early…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered

Dense Caption

Gray background. Centered pixelated torch icon: base is white with purple vertical stripes, flame is yellow and brown. Below icon, text 'Lipscomb' in black pixelated font with white outline, followed by 'Buddy' in same style. No visible motion. All elements are static. Text is legible. Colors: gray, white, purple, yellow, brown, black. Style is retro pixel art. Composition is centered. No additional objects or subjects.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a torch on a pedestal with text 'Lipscomb Buddy' below, all on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 34451
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 34451
  • 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

  • torch icon lipscomb buddy
  • gray background pixelated torch
  • lipscomb buddy text
  • yellow brown flame torch

Visible Text

  • Lipscomb
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • torch icon
  • white base
  • purple stripes
  • yellow-brown flame
  • Lipscomb text
  • Buddy text
  • black font
  • white outline
  • pixelated style
  • static image
  • centered composition

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
34451
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d640386066a35259dcd2a77f1ba1c345c1d4b4bbbf24ba029325befc8191f04c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Archive ID
d640386066a35259
SHA-256
d640386066a35259dcd2a77f1ba1c345c1d4b4bbbf24ba029325befc8191f04c
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
0.084243

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915757onnx/unsafe0.084243onnx/nsfw0.052120onnx/nsfl0.032123
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon shows a torch on a pedestal with text 'Lipscomb Buddy' below, all on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,259 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pedestal (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • torch (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • purple
  • yellow
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • centered

Dense Caption

Gray background. Centered pixelated torch icon: base is white with purple vertical stripes, flame is yellow and brown. Below icon, text 'Lipscomb' in black pixelated font with white outline, followed by 'Buddy' in same style. No visible motion. All elements are static. Text is legible. Colors: gray, white, purple, yellow, brown, black. Style is retro pixel art. Composition is centered. No additional objects or subjects.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a torch on a pedestal with text 'Lipscomb Buddy' below, all on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 34451
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 34451
  • 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

  • torch icon lipscomb buddy
  • gray background pixelated torch
  • lipscomb buddy text
  • yellow brown flame torch

Objects

  • pedestal

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • torch

Visible Text

  • Lipscomb
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • torch icon
  • white base
  • purple stripes
  • yellow-brown flame
  • Lipscomb text
  • Buddy text
  • black font
  • white outline
  • pixelated style
  • static image
  • centered composition
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TagConf.Evidenceballericons0.90wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · collection-identity · identity · curated-homogeneous · source-seed
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
34451
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:14 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/34451.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011223170113id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/34451.gif