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Pixelated icon shows a character buried under brown dirt with a gray 'RIP' tombstone, then reviving with blue hair, green eyes, and a blue outfit.

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Pixelated icon shows a character buried under brown dirt with a gray 'RIP' tombstone, then reviving with blue hair, green eyes, and a blue outfit.

Pixelated icon shows a character buried under brown dirt with a gray 'RIP' tombstone, then reviving with blue hair, green eyes, and a blue outfit. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • dirt mound shifts to reveal character
  • brown particles appear

Animation Summary

Tombstone 'RIP' above dirt mound; dirt mound shifts to reveal character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit; brown particles appear; 'Revive' text appears between states.

Composition

  • centered character
  • tombstone above character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top row: three tombstone states. First: tombstone 'RIP' above brown dirt mound. Second: dirt mound with blue hand and brown particles. Third: dirt mound with blue eyes and brown particles. Bottom row: two states. First: character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit, brown dirt mound. Second: character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit, brown dirt mound. Text: 'Napster' under each icon. 'Revive' text between bottom-left and bottom-right icons. Colors: gray, brown, blue, green, white. Style: 8-bit pixel art. Animation: dirt mound shifts to reveal character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a character buried under brown dirt with a gray 'RIP' tombstone, then reviving with blue hair, green eyes, and a blue outfit.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Napster tombstone
  • Napster revive
  • 8-bit Napster icon
  • Napster character buried
  • Napster blue hair green eyes
  • Napster dirt mound
  • Napster gray background
  • Napster particles

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention 'Napster' but pixels show 'Napster' text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • RIP
  • Napster
  • Revive

Visually Supported Entities

  • Napster

Wordwall

  • RIP tombstone
  • brown dirt mound
  • blue hair
  • green eyes
  • blue outfit
  • Napster text
  • Revive text
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • gray background
  • brown particles

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
8059
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/dd0ee78ab12c6daa5048edb6280c9e9a277442915572b892601da10211bb1ff6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Archive ID
dd0ee78ab12c6daa
SHA-256
dd0ee78ab12c6daa5048edb6280c9e9a277442915572b892601da10211bb1ff6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089171

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915617onnx/unsafe0.089171onnx/nsfw0.046268onnx/nsfl0.042904
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon shows a character buried under brown dirt with a gray 'RIP' tombstone, then reviving with blue hair, green eyes, and a blue outfit.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:34 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,031 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 857

Review tags

  • buried (action, 0.80)
  • emerging (action, 0.80)
  • reviving (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dirt mound (object, 0.80)
  • particles (object, 0.80)
  • tombstone (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • buried
  • reviving
  • emerging

Animation

  • dirt mound shifts to reveal character
  • brown particles appear

Animation Summary

Tombstone 'RIP' above dirt mound; dirt mound shifts to reveal character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit; brown particles appear; 'Revive' text appears between states.

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • centered character
  • tombstone above character
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top row: three tombstone states. First: tombstone 'RIP' above brown dirt mound. Second: dirt mound with blue hand and brown particles. Third: dirt mound with blue eyes and brown particles. Bottom row: two states. First: character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit, brown dirt mound. Second: character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit, brown dirt mound. Text: 'Napster' under each icon. 'Revive' text between bottom-left and bottom-right icons. Colors: gray, brown, blue, green, white. Style: 8-bit pixel art. Animation: dirt mound shifts to reveal character with blue hair, green eyes, blue outfit.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a character buried under brown dirt with a gray 'RIP' tombstone, then reviving with blue hair, green eyes, and a blue outfit.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Napster tombstone
  • Napster revive
  • 8-bit Napster icon
  • Napster character buried
  • Napster blue hair green eyes
  • Napster dirt mound
  • Napster gray background
  • Napster particles

Objects

  • tombstone
  • dirt mound
  • particles

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention 'Napster' but pixels show 'Napster' text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • RIP
  • Napster
  • Revive

Visually Supported Entities

  • Napster

Wordwall

  • RIP tombstone
  • brown dirt mound
  • blue hair
  • green eyes
  • blue outfit
  • Napster text
  • Revive text
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • gray background
  • brown particles
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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
8059
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:43 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/8059.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613132941id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/8059.gif