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Pixelated icon with yellow and black gradient body, gray stem, and four yellow square bursts on a light gray background.

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Pixelated icon with yellow and black gradient body, gray stem, and four yellow square bursts on a light gray background.

Pixelated icon with yellow and black gradient body, gray stem, and four yellow square bursts on a light gray background. 15×15 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Ballericons GIF…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central symmetry
  • four-point burst pattern
  • horizontal banding

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon composed of 16x16 grid. Central shape features horizontal yellow-to-black gradient bands forming rounded top and bottom sections. Black vertical stem extends downward from center, containing single gray square near base. Four clusters of three bright yellow squares radiate outward from left, right, top-left, and bottom-right corners. Background is solid light gray with no additional elements.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with yellow and black gradient body, gray stem, and four yellow square bursts on a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): icon3
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): bb
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): icon3
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): images

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM identity
  • early viral web humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixel art icon
  • 16x16 grid shape
  • four yellow bursts
  • gray stem on black base

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Ballericons GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM identity
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: ballericons
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Humor Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: early viral web
  • provenance collection-attribute: humor

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • 16x16 grid
  • yellow gradient bands
  • black vertical stem
  • gray square on stem
  • four yellow bursts
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

Wayback CDX Ballericons GIF Captures

Source title
icon3
Category
bb / images / icons
Era
Early-2000s Humor Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
15×15 pixels
File size
152 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/62041adca36265348a48bdb206292dfd5ad772473fa8c091455a53307ec520fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:13 UTC
Archive ID
62041adca3626534
SHA-256
62041adca36265348a48bdb206292dfd5ad772473fa8c091455a53307ec520fa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081754

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918246onnx/unsafe0.081754onnx/nsfw0.046562onnx/nsfl0.035193
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with yellow and black gradient body, gray stem, and four yellow square bursts on a light gray background.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 21:51 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,897 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,034, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale gradient (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • central symmetry
  • four-point burst pattern
  • horizontal banding

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon composed of 16x16 grid. Central shape features horizontal yellow-to-black gradient bands forming rounded top and bottom sections. Black vertical stem extends downward from center, containing single gray square near base. Four clusters of three bright yellow squares radiate outward from left, right, top-left, and bottom-right corners. Background is solid light gray with no additional elements.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with yellow and black gradient body, gray stem, and four yellow square bursts on a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): icon3
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): bb
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): icon3
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): images

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM identity
  • early viral web humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixel art icon
  • 16x16 grid shape
  • four yellow bursts
  • gray stem on black base

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Ballericons GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM identity
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: ballericons
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Humor Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: early viral web
  • provenance collection-attribute: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale gradient

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • 16x16 grid
  • yellow gradient bands
  • black vertical stem
  • gray square on stem
  • four yellow bursts
  • light gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:41 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Ballericons GIF Captures (wayback-ballericons-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-2000s Humor Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
bb / images / icons
Alt
icon3
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:13 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
small attitude/humor portal remembered in AIM buddy-icon culture
Original: http://www.ballericons.com/bb/images/icons/icon3.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612065327id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/bb/images/icons/icon3.gif