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Pixelated blue character with white stripes on head and base, black hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below.

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Pixelated blue character with white stripes on head and base, black hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below.

Pixelated blue character with white stripes on head and base, black hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text appears on right
  • character head shifts slightly

Animation Summary

  • Text 'You wanna get high?' appears to the right of the character between frames; character's head and base shift slightly.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text to right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated blue character with white horizontal stripes on head and base, black pixelated hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below. Left frame shows static character. Right frame adds black pixelated text 'You wanna get high?' to the right of the character. Character's head and base have slight pixel shifts between frames. Background is solid gray. Character's eyes and mouth remain unchanged between frames.

Description

Pixelated blue character with white stripes on head and base, black hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 34235
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 34235
  • 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

  • Towelie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Towelie blue character
  • Towelie text
  • You wanna get high?
  • pixelated blue character
  • gray background
  • text addition
  • character head shift
  • humorous pixel art

Visible Text

  • Towelie
  • You wanna get high?

Wordwall

  • blue character
  • white stripes
  • black hair
  • large white eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • Towelie text
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • text addition
  • character head shift

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
34235
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/f7/f7449636b6deff976d32070e6b85a20fedf29ad46743f6d49852167426e2db4c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:11 UTC
Archive ID
f7449636b6deff97
SHA-256
f7449636b6deff976d32070e6b85a20fedf29ad46743f6d49852167426e2db4c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087225

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue character with white stripes on head and base, black hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,323 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 750

Review tags

  • text addition (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text addition

Animation

  • text appears on right
  • character head shifts slightly

Animation Summary

  • Text 'You wanna get high?' appears to the right of the character between frames; character's head and base shift slightly.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • text to right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated blue character with white horizontal stripes on head and base, black pixelated hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below. Left frame shows static character. Right frame adds black pixelated text 'You wanna get high?' to the right of the character. Character's head and base have slight pixel shifts between frames. Background is solid gray. Character's eyes and mouth remain unchanged between frames.

Description

Pixelated blue character with white stripes on head and base, black hair, large white eyes with black pupils, smiling mouth, and 'Towelie' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 34235
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 34235
  • 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

  • Towelie

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Towelie blue character
  • Towelie text
  • You wanna get high?
  • pixelated blue character
  • gray background
  • text addition
  • character head shift
  • humorous pixel art

Objects

  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • blue character

Visible Text

  • Towelie
  • You wanna get high?

Wordwall

  • blue character
  • white stripes
  • black hair
  • large white eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • Towelie text
  • gray background
  • pixelated text
  • text addition
  • character head shift
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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
34235
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:11 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/34235.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20011223091451id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/34235.gif