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Pixelated icon shows a figure in yellow shirt with raised arms inside blue frame, red background, and 'buddy: 5¢' text below.

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Pixelated icon shows a figure in yellow shirt with raised arms inside blue frame, red background, and 'buddy: 5¢' text below.

Pixelated icon shows a figure in yellow shirt with raised arms inside blue frame, red background, and 'buddy: 5¢' text below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nat…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • vertical bar on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Red background with black border. Centered blue square frame with black outline contains a pixelated figure with white circular head, black outline, yellow shirt with brown and green details, and raised arms. Right side has vertical black bar with white segments and black '5' below it. Gray bar at bottom with black pixelated text 'buddy: 5¢'. All elements are static, no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a figure in yellow shirt with raised arms inside blue frame, red background, and 'buddy: 5¢' 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: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy 5 cent icon
  • yellow shirt pixel art
  • red background blue frame
  • buddy 5 cent text
  • pixelated figure raised arms
  • blue frame white head
  • vertical bar 5
  • buddy 5 cent red background

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • buddy: 5¢

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue square frame
  • white circular head
  • yellow shirt
  • raised arms
  • vertical black bar
  • black '5'
  • gray bar
  • buddy: 5¢ text
  • pixelated figure

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
3295
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:02 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/f5/f5a5fe4fab7caceb1e021836dd97f7026b357e58a2323b72873032ca44513b5d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Archive ID
f5a5fe4fab7caceb
SHA-256
f5a5fe4fab7caceb1e021836dd97f7026b357e58a2323b72873032ca44513b5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080042

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919958onnx/unsafe0.080042onnx/nsfw0.042736onnx/nsfl0.037306
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon shows a figure in yellow shirt with raised arms inside blue frame, red background, and 'buddy: 5¢' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,048 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,050, response 663

Review tags

  • raising arms (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue frame (object, 0.80)
  • vertical bar (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raising arms

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered figure
  • vertical bar on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Red background with black border. Centered blue square frame with black outline contains a pixelated figure with white circular head, black outline, yellow shirt with brown and green details, and raised arms. Right side has vertical black bar with white segments and black '5' below it. Gray bar at bottom with black pixelated text 'buddy: 5¢'. All elements are static, no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a figure in yellow shirt with raised arms inside blue frame, red background, and 'buddy: 5¢' 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: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy 5 cent icon
  • yellow shirt pixel art
  • red background blue frame
  • buddy 5 cent text
  • pixelated figure raised arms
  • blue frame white head
  • vertical bar 5
  • buddy 5 cent red background

Objects

  • blue frame
  • vertical bar

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • buddy: 5¢

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue square frame
  • white circular head
  • yellow shirt
  • raised arms
  • vertical black bar
  • black '5'
  • gray bar
  • buddy: 5¢ text
  • pixelated figure
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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
3295
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:02 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/3295.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612141701id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/3295.gif