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Pixelated black text and numbers on a gray background with small star-like symbols flanking the text.

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Pixelated black text and numbers on a gray background with small star-like symbols flanking the text.

Pixelated black text and numbers on a gray background with small star-like symbols flanking the text. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text at top
  • numbers below
  • symmetrical flanking symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic with the text "#BALLIN#" in bold black capital letters at the top, flanked by small star-like symbols on both sides. Below the text are large black numerals "24" on a light gray background. The entire image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The background is a uniform light gray with subtle pixelation. The text and numbers are solid black with no additional colors or shading.

Description

  • Pixelated black text and numbers on a gray background with small star-like symbols flanking the text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • #BALLIN# 24
  • pixelated #BALLIN# star symbols
  • 24 pixelated text
  • gray background #BALLIN#

Visible Text

  • #BALLIN#

Wordwall

  • #BALLIN#
  • 24
  • star symbols
  • pixelated
  • black text
  • gray background
  • bold numerals
  • flanked symbols

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071122071212694121650
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fbac8350eb92cb3d9ebc90e6f106932d7a8a005af7a78e231fadca924550d733.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
fbac8350eb92cb3d
SHA-256
fbac8350eb92cb3d9ebc90e6f106932d7a8a005af7a78e231fadca924550d733
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000061

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000061falseharassment0.000010falseviolence0.000005falseviolence/graphic0.000004falseillicit0.000003falseself-harm0.000002falsehate0.000002falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081635

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918365onnx/unsafe0.081635onnx/nsfw0.045869onnx/nsfl0.035766
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated black text and numbers on a gray background with small star-like symbols flanking the text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,201 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • text at top
  • numbers below
  • symmetrical flanking symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic with the text "#BALLIN#" in bold black capital letters at the top, flanked by small star-like symbols on both sides. Below the text are large black numerals "24" on a light gray background. The entire image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The background is a uniform light gray with subtle pixelation. The text and numbers are solid black with no additional colors or shading.

Description

  • Pixelated black text and numbers on a gray background with small star-like symbols flanking the text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • #BALLIN# 24
  • pixelated #BALLIN# star symbols
  • 24 pixelated text
  • gray background #BALLIN#

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • #BALLIN#

Wordwall

  • #BALLIN#
  • 24
  • star symbols
  • pixelated
  • black text
  • gray background
  • bold numerals
  • flanked symbols
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:05 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20071122071212694121650
Archive entry
20071122071212694121650.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071122071212694121650.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071122071212694121650.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016