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Pixelated character in yellow shirt with white circular head holding red and black object, text "Tech Deck" below.

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Pixelated character in yellow shirt with white circular head holding red and black object, text "Tech Deck" below.

Pixelated character in yellow shirt with white circular head holding red and black object, text "Tech Deck" below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nativ…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left hand object position changes

Animation Summary

  • Character holds red and black object in left hand; left hand position changes across variations while right hand remains extended.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below
  • three variations

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt holds red and black object in left hand; right hand is extended. Character has white circular head, yellow shirt, and black outline. Background is solid gray. Text "Tech Deck" appears below character in white pixelated font with black outline. Three variations show the character holding the object in different positions: left hand holds object with red tip, left hand holds object with red and black segments, and left hand holds object with red tip only. All variations have the same text and background.

Description

  • Pixelated character in yellow shirt with white circular head holding red and black object, text "Tech Deck" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tech Deck

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tech Deck pixelated character
  • yellow shirt white head
  • red black object gray background
  • Tech Deck text
  • left hand object position
  • three variations
  • pixelated character holding object
  • Tech Deck icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 20942
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 20942
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • Tech Deck

Wordwall

  • white circular head
  • yellow shirt
  • red and black object
  • gray background
  • Tech Deck text
  • pixelated character
  • black outline
  • white font
  • left hand object
  • right hand extended
  • three variations

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
20942
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc2b6b6b2e9bb3e1602c7b9fe5c1433fb7d3d27cb03603d94b12b5faec722808.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Archive ID
fc2b6b6b2e9bb3e1
SHA-256
fc2b6b6b2e9bb3e1602c7b9fe5c1433fb7d3d27cb03603d94b12b5faec722808
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.100511

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character in yellow shirt with white circular head holding red and black object, text "Tech Deck" below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,726 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 867

Review tags

  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • red and black object (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending

Animation

  • left hand object position changes

Animation Summary

  • Character holds red and black object in left hand; left hand position changes across variations while right hand remains extended.

Colors

  • white
  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below
  • three variations

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with white circular head and yellow shirt holds red and black object in left hand; right hand is extended. Character has white circular head, yellow shirt, and black outline. Background is solid gray. Text "Tech Deck" appears below character in white pixelated font with black outline. Three variations show the character holding the object in different positions: left hand holds object with red tip, left hand holds object with red and black segments, and left hand holds object with red tip only. All variations have the same text and background.

Description

  • Pixelated character in yellow shirt with white circular head holding red and black object, text "Tech Deck" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tech Deck

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tech Deck pixelated character
  • yellow shirt white head
  • red black object gray background
  • Tech Deck text
  • left hand object position
  • three variations
  • pixelated character holding object
  • Tech Deck icon

Objects

  • red and black object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 20942
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 20942
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Tech Deck

Wordwall

  • white circular head
  • yellow shirt
  • red and black object
  • gray background
  • Tech Deck text
  • pixelated character
  • black outline
  • white font
  • left hand object
  • right hand extended
  • three variations
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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
20942
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:52 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/20942.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010827193631id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/20942.gif