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Pixelated icon of a retro television displaying a blurred MTV logo with 'Watch MTV' text below.

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Pixelated icon of a retro television displaying a blurred MTV logo with 'Watch MTV' text below.

Pixelated icon of a retro television displaying a blurred MTV logo with 'Watch MTV' text below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs, Early-to-M…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered television
  • text below
  • buttons on right

Dense Caption

Black retro television with a gray screen border and black antenna. Screen shows a pixelated MTV logo with a blurred figure holding a microphone. Right side has three buttons: orange, white, white. Below television, 'Watch MTV' text in pixelated font with black underline. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a retro television displaying a blurred MTV logo with 'Watch MTV' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • retro television mtv
  • watch mtv pixel art
  • mtv logo television
  • pixelated mtv icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation obscures fine details

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 19312
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 19312
  • 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

  • Watch MTV

Wordwall

  • retro television
  • MTV logo
  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • black antenna
  • three buttons
  • Watch MTV text
  • black underline
  • blurred figure
  • microphone

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
19312
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:33 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/eb/eb50e1d2a51919ed6d8d738597c8492ed65424d02252c98f6e499feeee66670c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Archive ID
eb50e1d2a51919ed
SHA-256
eb50e1d2a51919ed6d8d738597c8492ed65424d02252c98f6e499feeee66670c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074054

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a retro television displaying a blurred MTV logo with 'Watch MTV' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,053, response 806

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • antenna (object, 0.80)
  • buttons (object, 0.80)
  • underlines (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • microphone (subject, 0.80)
  • mtv logo (subject, 0.80)
  • television (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • centered television
  • text below
  • buttons on right

Dense Caption

Black retro television with a gray screen border and black antenna. Screen shows a pixelated MTV logo with a blurred figure holding a microphone. Right side has three buttons: orange, white, white. Below television, 'Watch MTV' text in pixelated font with black underline. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a retro television displaying a blurred MTV logo with 'Watch MTV' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • retro television mtv
  • watch mtv pixel art
  • mtv logo television
  • pixelated mtv icon

Objects

  • antenna
  • buttons
  • underlines

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation obscures fine details

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 19312
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
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  • 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

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • television
  • MTV logo
  • microphone

Visible Text

  • Watch MTV

Wordwall

  • retro television
  • MTV logo
  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • black antenna
  • three buttons
  • Watch MTV text
  • black underline
  • blurred figure
  • microphone
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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
19312
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:33 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/19312.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010619094447id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/19312.gif