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Yellow text 'follow the leader' on black background with checkered legs and yellow ducks in pixelated style.

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Yellow text 'follow the leader' on black background with checkered legs and yellow ducks in pixelated style.

Yellow text 'follow the leader' on black background with checkered legs and yellow ducks in pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Ico…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text shifts right
  • text background changes from solid yellow to yellow with black border

Animation Summary

  • Text shifts right and background changes from solid yellow to yellow with black border.

Composition

  • text top-left
  • text top-right
  • pants center
  • ducks bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow text 'follow the leader' in black block letters on yellow background appears in two positions; left text is on a yellow rectangle, right text is on a yellow rectangle with black border. Black and white checkered pants extend from top to bottom. Two yellow ducks are positioned below the text on the left side, and two yellow ducks are positioned below the text on the right side. The background is light gray. The image is pixelated with visible dithering.

Description

  • Yellow text 'follow the leader' on black background with checkered legs and yellow ducks in pixelated style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: coolbuddy
  • provenance cultural-slice: cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, 1
  • provenance collection-attribute: dollbuddieicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow text follow the leader
  • checkered pants yellow ducks
  • pixelated text background
  • yellow border text

Visible Text

  • follow the leader

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • black block letters
  • yellow background
  • checkered pants
  • two yellow ducks
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithering

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_scr3wxm3_Follow The Leader
Category
IconHell/Other
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e59dd67bf24506dc584f6d4622706a7b94c6d54a2fc3067c95cd96fdfdcd5944.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:54 UTC
Archive ID
e59dd67bf24506dc
SHA-256
e59dd67bf24506dc584f6d4622706a7b94c6d54a2fc3067c95cd96fdfdcd5944
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 11:06 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000133

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 12:28 UTC
Run
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Overall label
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July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow text 'follow the leader' on black background with checkered legs and yellow ducks in pixelated style.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 10:54 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,158 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,127, response 686

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • ducks (object, 0.80)
  • pants (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • checkered pants (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow ducks (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text shifts right
  • text background changes from solid yellow to yellow with black border

Animation Summary

  • Text shifts right and background changes from solid yellow to yellow with black border.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • text top-left
  • text top-right
  • pants center
  • ducks bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow text 'follow the leader' in black block letters on yellow background appears in two positions; left text is on a yellow rectangle, right text is on a yellow rectangle with black border. Black and white checkered pants extend from top to bottom. Two yellow ducks are positioned below the text on the left side, and two yellow ducks are positioned below the text on the right side. The background is light gray. The image is pixelated with visible dithering.

Description

  • Yellow text 'follow the leader' on black background with checkered legs and yellow ducks in pixelated style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: coolbuddy
  • provenance cultural-slice: cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, 1
  • provenance collection-attribute: dollbuddieicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow text follow the leader
  • checkered pants yellow ducks
  • pixelated text background
  • yellow border text

Objects

  • text
  • pants
  • ducks

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • dithered

Subjects

  • text
  • checkered pants
  • yellow ducks

Visible Text

  • follow the leader

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • black block letters
  • yellow background
  • checkered pants
  • two yellow ducks
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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)
Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/Other
Title
iconhell_scr3wxm3_Follow The Leader
Archive entry
IconHell/Other/iconhell_scr3wxm3_Follow The Leader.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:54 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture
Original: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FOther%2Ficonhell_scr3wxm3_Follow%20The%20Leader.gif Download: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FOther%2Ficonhell_scr3wxm3_Follow%20The%20Leader.gif Page: https://github.com/Hmmnd0/buddy-icon-repository