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Static pixel art icon with a central character flanked by checkered panels and 'Rude Buddy' text below on gray background.

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Static pixel art icon with a central character flanked by checkered panels and 'Rude Buddy' text below on gray background.

Static pixel art icon with a central character flanked by checkered panels and 'Rude Buddy' text below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native…

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Action

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; all elements static.

Composition

  • central character
  • flanked by panels
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on gray background. Central character: black fedora, white face, black jacket with white stripes, arms extended. Flanked by two vertical black-and-white checkered panels. Below character: 'Rude Buddy' text in large pixelated font with white outline. Character has no visible mouth or eyes. All elements are static with no animation. Character's jacket has brown accents on sleeves. Background is solid light gray. Character is centered horizontally between checkered panels. Text is centered horizontally below character. Character's pose is symmetrical. Character's jacket has a white stripe down the center. Character's jacket has a white stripe on each sleeve. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the back. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the front. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left sleeve. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right sleeve. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. The 'R

Description

  • Static pixel art icon with a central character flanked by checkered panels and 'Rude Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rude buddy pixel art
  • checkered panels fedora jacket
  • gray background pixel art
  • rude buddy text fedora
  • fedora jacket white stripes
  • black and white pixel art
  • rude buddy character
  • character fedora jacket checkered panels

Visible Text

  • Rude Buddy

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • gray background
  • checkered panels
  • fedora
  • white face
  • black jacket
  • white stripes
  • brown accents
  • symmetrical pose
  • large text
  • Rude Buddy
  • no eyes
  • no mouth
  • static image
  • centered character
  • centered text
  • vertical panels
  • white outline
  • black and white
  • brown accents on sleeves

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
2635
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
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/e2/e259e22bedaa0e9f19eb9b67a66eb737752a2f985ace28e6b5f05dffd91f566b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:28 UTC
Archive ID
e259e22bedaa0e9f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079194

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920806onnx/unsafe0.079194onnx/nsfw0.042502onnx/nsfl0.036692
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Static pixel art icon with a central character flanked by checkered panels and 'Rude Buddy' text below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,486 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,048, response 1,080

Review tags

  • arms extended (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • fedora (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms extended

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; all elements static.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • central character
  • flanked by panels
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon on gray background. Central character: black fedora, white face, black jacket with white stripes, arms extended. Flanked by two vertical black-and-white checkered panels. Below character: 'Rude Buddy' text in large pixelated font with white outline. Character has no visible mouth or eyes. All elements are static with no animation. Character's jacket has brown accents on sleeves. Background is solid light gray. Character is centered horizontally between checkered panels. Text is centered horizontally below character. Character's pose is symmetrical. Character's jacket has a white stripe down the center. Character's jacket has a white stripe on each sleeve. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the back. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the front. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left sleeve. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right sleeve. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the right side of the jacket. Character's jacket has a white stripe on the left side of the jacket. The 'R

Description

  • Static pixel art icon with a central character flanked by checkered panels and 'Rude Buddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rude buddy pixel art
  • checkered panels fedora jacket
  • gray background pixel art
  • rude buddy text fedora
  • fedora jacket white stripes
  • black and white pixel art
  • rude buddy character
  • character fedora jacket checkered panels

Objects

  • fedora
  • jacket
  • checkered panels

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Rude Buddy

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • gray background
  • checkered panels
  • fedora
  • white face
  • black jacket
  • white stripes
  • brown accents
  • symmetrical pose
  • large text
  • Rude Buddy
  • no eyes
  • no mouth
  • static image
  • centered character
  • centered text
  • vertical panels
  • white outline
  • black and white
  • brown accents on sleeves
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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
2635
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://www.ballericons.com/icon/2635.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612082300id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/2635.gif