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Pixelated figure in blue graduation gown holds American flag while waving, with 'GoreBuddy' text below on gray background.

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Perceptual
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Pixelated figure in blue graduation gown holds American flag while waving, with 'GoreBuddy' text below on gray background.

Pixelated figure in blue graduation gown holds American flag while waving, with 'GoreBuddy' text below on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • central figure above text

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated human figure wearing dark cap and white face mask, blue robe, red tie. Left hand raised in wave; right hand holds pole with red-and-white striped flag featuring blue top-left corner. Text below reads 'GoreBuddy' in black pixel font with white outline. No visible motion or animation changes. Figure positioned centrally above text. Colors include gray, dark blue, light brown, red, white, and blue. Rendering style is low-resolution 8-bit pixel art.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in blue graduation gown holds American flag while waving, with 'GoreBuddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gorebuddy flag waving figure
  • blue robe american flag pixel art
  • gorebuddy text gray background

Subjects

  • human figure

Visible Text

  • GoreBuddy

Wordwall

  • blue robe
  • red tie
  • American flag
  • gray background
  • pixelated figure
  • wave gesture
  • text 'GoreBuddy'
  • dark cap
  • white face mask

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
123
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f4a7a565d48435df655a2150610a2fddbff05630be91dc61b52a4c1f2ff00819.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 01:58 UTC
Archive ID
f4a7a565d48435df
SHA-256
f4a7a565d48435df655a2150610a2fddbff05630be91dc61b52a4c1f2ff00819
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.092350

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated figure in blue graduation gown holds American flag while waving, with 'GoreBuddy' text below on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 05:16 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,928 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,048, response 569

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • american flag (object, 0.80)
  • pole (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving
  • holding

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • central figure above text

Dense Caption

Gray background. Pixelated human figure wearing dark cap and white face mask, blue robe, red tie. Left hand raised in wave; right hand holds pole with red-and-white striped flag featuring blue top-left corner. Text below reads 'GoreBuddy' in black pixel font with white outline. No visible motion or animation changes. Figure positioned centrally above text. Colors include gray, dark blue, light brown, red, white, and blue. Rendering style is low-resolution 8-bit pixel art.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in blue graduation gown holds American flag while waving, with 'GoreBuddy' text below on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gorebuddy flag waving figure
  • blue robe american flag pixel art
  • gorebuddy text gray background

Objects

  • American flag
  • pole

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human figure

Visible Text

  • GoreBuddy

Wordwall

  • blue robe
  • red tie
  • American flag
  • gray background
  • pixelated figure
  • wave gesture
  • text 'GoreBuddy'
  • dark cap
  • white face mask
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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
123
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:58 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/123.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010611190557id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/123.gif