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Pixelated character in red cap and blue overalls holds tennis racket, with tennis ball above; text reads 'Mario Tennis' below.

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Pixelated character in red cap and blue overalls holds tennis racket, with tennis ball above; text reads 'Mario Tennis' below.

Pixelated character in red cap and blue overalls holds tennis racket, with tennis ball above; text reads 'Mario Tennis' below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Na…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • ball above character
  • text below character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style image shows a character with red cap, white mustache, red shirt, blue overalls, and black gloves holding a tennis racket with red strings. A yellow tennis ball with black lines appears above the character. Below the character, text reads 'Mario' in white block letters with black outline, and 'Tennis' in black block letters with white outline. Background is solid light gray. Character is centered horizontally, with ball positioned above and to the left of the character's head. The image uses limited color palette with distinct pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated character in red cap and blue overalls holds tennis racket, with tennis ball above; text reads 'Mario Tennis' below.

Fandoms

  • Mario

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mario

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tennis

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Named Entities

  • Mario

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mario Tennis pixel art
  • tennis racket character
  • red cap blue overalls
  • 8-bit Mario Tennis
  • Mario Tennis text
  • tennis ball above character
  • blocky character
  • light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5526
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5526
  • 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

  • Mario
  • Tennis

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mario

Wordwall

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • red cap
  • white mustache
  • red shirt
  • blue overalls
  • black gloves
  • tennis racket
  • red strings
  • yellow tennis ball
  • black lines
  • light gray background
  • white text outline
  • black text outline
  • centered character
  • ball above character
  • Mario Tennis text
  • block letters
  • limited color palette
  • distinct pixelation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
5526
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 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/f3/f37168ab6217e7f06b18c2cae9f91adda37f550e602622ad03f8844c00e21d03.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Archive ID
f37168ab6217e7f0
SHA-256
f37168ab6217e7f06b18c2cae9f91adda37f550e602622ad03f8844c00e21d03
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090279

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909721onnx/unsafe0.090279onnx/nsfw0.054073onnx/nsfl0.036206
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character in red cap and blue overalls holds tennis racket, with tennis ball above; text reads 'Mario Tennis' below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,397 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,051, response 945

Review tags

  • appearing (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)
  • tennis ball (subject, 0.80)
  • tennis racket (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • appearing

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • black
  • yellow
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • ball above character
  • text below character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style image shows a character with red cap, white mustache, red shirt, blue overalls, and black gloves holding a tennis racket with red strings. A yellow tennis ball with black lines appears above the character. Below the character, text reads 'Mario' in white block letters with black outline, and 'Tennis' in black block letters with white outline. Background is solid light gray. Character is centered horizontally, with ball positioned above and to the left of the character's head. The image uses limited color palette with distinct pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated character in red cap and blue overalls holds tennis racket, with tennis ball above; text reads 'Mario Tennis' below.

Fandoms

  • Mario

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mario

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tennis

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Mario

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mario Tennis pixel art
  • tennis racket character
  • red cap blue overalls
  • 8-bit Mario Tennis
  • Mario Tennis text
  • tennis ball above character
  • blocky character
  • light gray background

Objects

  • tennis racket
  • tennis ball

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 5526
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 5526
  • 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
  • blocky

Subjects

  • character
  • tennis racket
  • tennis ball

Visible Text

  • Mario
  • Tennis

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mario

Wordwall

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • red cap
  • white mustache
  • red shirt
  • blue overalls
  • black gloves
  • tennis racket
  • red strings
  • yellow tennis ball
  • black lines
  • light gray background
  • white text outline
  • black text outline
  • centered character
  • ball above character
  • Mario Tennis text
  • block letters
  • limited color palette
  • distinct pixelation
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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
5526
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:23 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/5526.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010907125851id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/5526.gif