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Animated sequence showing a pixelated character with a white helmet and dark uniform holding a red object, transitioning through red circular and semi-circular shapes with 'MIB' text below.

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Animated sequence showing a pixelated character with a white helmet and dark uniform holding a red object, transitioning through red circular and semi-circular shapes with 'MIB' text below.

Animated sequence showing a pixelated character with a white helmet and dark uniform holding a red object, transitioning through red circular and semi-circular shapes with 'MIB' t…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • shape replacement
  • progressive expansion

Animation Summary

Character holds red object; red circular shape appears over head; red semi-circular shape replaces circular shape; red semi-circular shape expands to cover character; red square shape appears.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character
  • shape expansion from top to bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with white helmet and dark uniform holds red object; red circular shape appears over character's head in second frame; red semi-circular shape replaces circular shape in third frame; red semi-circular shape expands to cover character in fourth frame; red square shape appears in fifth frame; 'MIB' text in white pixelated font with black underline appears below character in first four frames; gray background; animation shows progressive red shape expansion and replacement.

Description

Animated sequence showing a pixelated character with a white helmet and dark uniform holding a red object, transitioning through red circular and semi-circular shapes with 'MIB' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • MIB
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MIB pixel art animation
  • red shape expansion animation
  • 2000s digital character animation
  • gray background MIB animation
  • pixelated character red object animation
  • MIB text white font black underline
  • red circular to square animation
  • character holding red object animation

Visible Text

  • MIB

Wordwall

  • MIB text
  • white pixelated font
  • black underline
  • gray background
  • red circular shape
  • red semi-circular shape
  • red square shape
  • pixelated character
  • white helmet
  • dark uniform
  • red object
  • animation sequence
  • progressive shape expansion
  • shape replacement

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
26339
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:28 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/df7f8495b5787c4d15f1f3d156815671cd9c0b93fb68d7cc57f8232f31d6e429.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:28 UTC
Archive ID
df7f8495b5787c4d
SHA-256
df7f8495b5787c4d15f1f3d156815671cd9c0b93fb68d7cc57f8232f31d6e429
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.021683

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.155912

OpenAI category scores

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Animated sequence showing a pixelated character with a white helmet and dark uniform holding a red object, transitioning through red circular and semi-circular shapes with 'MIB' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,355 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,074, response 790

Review tags

  • expanding (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • replacing (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red circular shape (object, 0.80)
  • red object (object, 0.80)
  • red semi circular shape (object, 0.80)
  • red square shape (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • expanding
  • replacing

Animation

  • shape replacement
  • progressive expansion

Animation Summary

Character holds red object; red circular shape appears over head; red semi-circular shape replaces circular shape; red semi-circular shape expands to cover character; red square shape appears.

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • dark green

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character
  • shape expansion from top to bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with white helmet and dark uniform holds red object; red circular shape appears over character's head in second frame; red semi-circular shape replaces circular shape in third frame; red semi-circular shape expands to cover character in fourth frame; red square shape appears in fifth frame; 'MIB' text in white pixelated font with black underline appears below character in first four frames; gray background; animation shows progressive red shape expansion and replacement.

Description

Animated sequence showing a pixelated character with a white helmet and dark uniform holding a red object, transitioning through red circular and semi-circular shapes with 'MIB' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • MIB
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: 2000s

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MIB pixel art animation
  • red shape expansion animation
  • 2000s digital character animation
  • gray background MIB animation
  • pixelated character red object animation
  • MIB text white font black underline
  • red circular to square animation
  • character holding red object animation

Objects

  • red object
  • red circular shape
  • red semi-circular shape
  • red square shape

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Visible Text

  • MIB

Wordwall

  • MIB text
  • white pixelated font
  • black underline
  • gray background
  • red circular shape
  • red semi-circular shape
  • red square shape
  • pixelated character
  • white helmet
  • dark uniform
  • red object
  • animation sequence
  • progressive shape expansion
  • shape replacement
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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
26339
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:28 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/26339.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010810144303id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/26339.gif