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Pixelated red character with white accents and black outlines, holding a white object, surrounded by yellow circular shapes on gray background.

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Pixelated red character with white accents and black outlines, holding a white object, surrounded by yellow circular shapes on gray background.

Pixelated red character with white accents and black outlines, holding a white object, surrounded by yellow circular shapes on gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayba…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • yellow circles top-left

Dense Caption

Gray background with three yellow circular shapes in top-left corner. Central pixelated figure is red with white vertical stripe on head, white mouth, black eyes, and black outline. Figure holds white object with black and gray details. Below figure, text reads "Knuckles Buddy" in pixelated font with black outlines and white fill. All elements are static.

Description

Pixelated red character with white accents and black outlines, holding a white object, surrounded by yellow circular shapes on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 6710
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 6710
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • 2000s
  • Wayback
  • Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixel character yellow circles
  • Knuckles Buddy pixel art
  • gray background yellow circles
  • pixelated text Knuckles Buddy

Visible Text

  • Knuckles Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • yellow circles
  • red character
  • white accents
  • black outlines
  • white object
  • pixelated text
  • Knuckles Buddy
  • static image
  • 3 yellow circles

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
6710
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/f6/f67190775ef706cb51133a9e28f0b957be3772e1fe8bcc6ad823291be1e2c27d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Archive ID
f67190775ef706cb
SHA-256
f67190775ef706cb51133a9e28f0b957be3772e1fe8bcc6ad823291be1e2c27d
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
0.093543

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red character with white accents and black outlines, holding a white object, surrounded by yellow circular shapes on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:28 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,623 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,049, response 688

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red character (subject, 0.80)
  • white object (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow circles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • yellow circles top-left

Dense Caption

Gray background with three yellow circular shapes in top-left corner. Central pixelated figure is red with white vertical stripe on head, white mouth, black eyes, and black outline. Figure holds white object with black and gray details. Below figure, text reads "Knuckles Buddy" in pixelated font with black outlines and white fill. All elements are static.

Description

Pixelated red character with white accents and black outlines, holding a white object, surrounded by yellow circular shapes on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 6710
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 6710
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • 2000s
  • Wayback
  • Buddy Icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixel character yellow circles
  • Knuckles Buddy pixel art
  • gray background yellow circles
  • pixelated text Knuckles Buddy

Objects

  • yellow circles
  • white object

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • red character
  • yellow circles
  • white object

Visible Text

  • Knuckles Buddy

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • yellow circles
  • red character
  • white accents
  • black outlines
  • white object
  • pixelated text
  • Knuckles Buddy
  • static image
  • 3 yellow circles
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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
6710
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:38 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/6710.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612110538id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/6710.gif