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Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object, displayed with changing text below.

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Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object, displayed with changing text below.

Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object, displayed with changing text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • text change

Animation

  • text changes
  • no character movement

Animation Summary

  • Character remains static while text changes across frames: 'TWL' → 'You are TWL' → 'the weakest TWL link' → 'Goodbye!!! TWL'

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object. Four distinct text variations: 'TWL', 'You are TWL', 'the weakest TWL link', 'Goodbye!!! TWL'. Character remains static across all frames. Background is solid light gray. Text is black with white underline beneath 'TWL' in each instance. Character's pose is consistent: arms raised, holding a white object. Text appears below the character in each frame. The character's hair is yellow, face is checkered black-and-white, clothing is black. The text changes across frames while the character remains unchanged.

Description

  • Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object, displayed with changing text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TWL pixel art
  • yellow hair checkered face
  • You are TWL
  • the weakest TWL link
  • Goodbye TWL
  • buddy icon text change
  • 8-bit character
  • light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 17978
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 17978
  • 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

  • TWL
  • You are TWL
  • the weakest TWL link
  • Goodbye!!! TWL

Visually Supported Entities

  • TWL

Wordwall

  • yellow hair
  • checkered face
  • black clothing
  • white object
  • light gray background
  • black text
  • white underline
  • character pose
  • text variations
  • TWL
  • You are TWL
  • the weakest TWL link
  • Goodbye!!! TWL

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
17978
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:07 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/f0/f02725ce14c354a5166c38b208a21179d4d256bbfff6fbb1b113dd97538a0699.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
f02725ce14c354a5
SHA-256
f02725ce14c354a5166c38b208a21179d4d256bbfff6fbb1b113dd97538a0699
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090550

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921956onnx/unsafe0.090550onnx/nsfw0.051344onnx/nsfl0.039206
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object, displayed with changing text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:17 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,522 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 887

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • text change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • white object (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • text change

Animation

  • text changes
  • no character movement

Animation Summary

  • Character remains static while text changes across frames: 'TWL' → 'You are TWL' → 'the weakest TWL link' → 'Goodbye!!! TWL'

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object. Four distinct text variations: 'TWL', 'You are TWL', 'the weakest TWL link', 'Goodbye!!! TWL'. Character remains static across all frames. Background is solid light gray. Text is black with white underline beneath 'TWL' in each instance. Character's pose is consistent: arms raised, holding a white object. Text appears below the character in each frame. The character's hair is yellow, face is checkered black-and-white, clothing is black. The text changes across frames while the character remains unchanged.

Description

  • Pixel art character with yellow hair and checkered face, black clothing, holding a white object, displayed with changing text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TWL pixel art
  • yellow hair checkered face
  • You are TWL
  • the weakest TWL link
  • Goodbye TWL
  • buddy icon text change
  • 8-bit character
  • light gray background

Objects

  • white object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 17978
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 17978
  • 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
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • TWL
  • You are TWL
  • the weakest TWL link
  • Goodbye!!! TWL

Visually Supported Entities

  • TWL

Wordwall

  • yellow hair
  • checkered face
  • black clothing
  • white object
  • light gray background
  • black text
  • white underline
  • character pose
  • text variations
  • TWL
  • You are TWL
  • the weakest TWL link
  • Goodbye!!! TWL
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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
17978
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:07 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/17978.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020329082403id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/17978.gif