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Pixelated icon of a person in a yellow jacket paddling an orange kayak with two white oars against a gray background, labeled 'Yakker Buddy' below.

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Pixelated icon of a person in a yellow jacket paddling an orange kayak with two white oars against a gray background, labeled 'Yakker Buddy' below.

Pixelated icon of a person in a yellow jacket paddling an orange kayak with two white oars against a gray background, labeled 'Yakker Buddy' below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from W…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon on solid gray background. Central figure has white circular head, yellow jacket, and dark blue waistband. Figure holds two white oars with black handles, each oar has white circular tip. Figure sits in orange kayak with dark gray outline and purple underlayer. Below icon, text reads 'Yakker' in black pixelated font with white dot on 'a', and 'Buddy' in black pixelated font with white dot on 'B'. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated icon of a person in a yellow jacket paddling an orange kayak with two white oars against a gray background, labeled 'Yakker Buddy' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Yakker Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow jacket paddling orange kayak
  • white oars gray background
  • Yakker Buddy pixelated text
  • 8-bit style kayak icon
  • paddling figure white head
  • orange kayak dark gray outline
  • white dot on 'a' and 'B'

Visible Text

  • Yakker
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • white circular head
  • yellow jacket
  • dark blue waistband
  • white oars
  • black oar handles
  • white oar tips
  • orange kayak
  • dark gray outline
  • purple underlayer
  • gray background
  • black pixelated text
  • white dot on 'a'
  • white dot on 'B'
  • static 8-bit style
  • no visible animation
  • text 'Yakker'
  • text 'Buddy'

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
2449
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ee/ee4d9f525a2389c31767a6bbf992eda20d2c3dc2d098359d5a4f3d8ba9e4594d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:17 UTC
Archive ID
ee4d9f525a2389c3
SHA-256
ee4d9f525a2389c31767a6bbf992eda20d2c3dc2d098359d5a4f3d8ba9e4594d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076409

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a person in a yellow jacket paddling an orange kayak with two white oars against a gray background, labeled 'Yakker Buddy' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,130 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,051, response 792

Review tags

  • paddling (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • kayak (object, 0.80)
  • oars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • paddling

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • yellow
  • dark blue
  • orange
  • dark gray
  • purple

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon on solid gray background. Central figure has white circular head, yellow jacket, and dark blue waistband. Figure holds two white oars with black handles, each oar has white circular tip. Figure sits in orange kayak with dark gray outline and purple underlayer. Below icon, text reads 'Yakker' in black pixelated font with white dot on 'a', and 'Buddy' in black pixelated font with white dot on 'B'. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated icon of a person in a yellow jacket paddling an orange kayak with two white oars against a gray background, labeled 'Yakker Buddy' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Yakker Buddy

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow jacket paddling orange kayak
  • white oars gray background
  • Yakker Buddy pixelated text
  • 8-bit style kayak icon
  • paddling figure white head
  • orange kayak dark gray outline
  • white dot on 'a' and 'B'

Objects

  • kayak
  • oars

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Yakker
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • white circular head
  • yellow jacket
  • dark blue waistband
  • white oars
  • black oar handles
  • white oar tips
  • orange kayak
  • dark gray outline
  • purple underlayer
  • gray background
  • black pixelated text
  • white dot on 'a'
  • white dot on 'B'
  • static 8-bit style
  • no visible animation
  • text 'Yakker'
  • text 'Buddy'
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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
2449
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:17 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

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