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A pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes, holding an orange and black object in its mouth, with a heart symbol below.

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A pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes, holding an orange and black object in its mouth, with a heart symbol below.

A pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes, holding an orange and black object in its mouth, with a heart symbol below. Animated 4…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol changes from orange to black
  • body size slightly increases

Animation Summary

  • The heart symbol changes from orange to black, and the figure's body size slightly increases.

Composition

  • centered figure
  • heart symbol in bottom right corner

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes. It holds an orange and black object in its mouth. The background is a light beige color. In the bottom right corner of the left panel, there is an orange heart symbol. In the bottom right corner of the right panel, there is a black heart symbol. The figure's body appears slightly larger in the right panel compared to the left panel.

Description

A pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes, holding an orange and black object in its mouth, with a heart symbol below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • observation category (gallery): Art
  • observation category (gallery): art buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Art Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • observation category (gallery): Art
  • observation category (gallery): art buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Art Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ghost figure heart symbol
  • orange black object
  • beige background
  • heart symbol change
  • body size increase
  • pixelated ghost
  • blue eyes
  • low-resolution animation

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static comparison of two states

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery blinkies.iconhell.com
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • observation category (gallery): Art
  • observation category (gallery): art buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Art Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy

Wordwall

  • ghost-like figure
  • rounded white body
  • black outline
  • small blue eyes
  • orange and black object
  • light beige background
  • orange heart symbol
  • black heart symbol
  • slightly larger body

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
Category
IconHell/Art
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/61e4efb8365194e9dc7555773a076cc7a392a7d82192aa381eafa45f7c827daa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:49 UTC
Archive ID
61e4efb8365194e9
SHA-256
61e4efb8365194e9dc7555773a076cc7a392a7d82192aa381eafa45f7c827daa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.076179

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes, holding an orange and black object in its mouth, with a heart symbol below.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 03:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,483 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 981

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • orange and black object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • ghost like figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • heart symbol changes from orange to black
  • body size slightly increases

Animation Summary

  • The heart symbol changes from orange to black, and the figure's body size slightly increases.

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • blue
  • orange
  • beige

Composition

  • centered figure
  • heart symbol in bottom right corner

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes. It holds an orange and black object in its mouth. The background is a light beige color. In the bottom right corner of the left panel, there is an orange heart symbol. In the bottom right corner of the right panel, there is a black heart symbol. The figure's body appears slightly larger in the right panel compared to the left panel.

Description

A pixelated ghost-like figure with a rounded white body, black outline, and small blue eyes, holding an orange and black object in its mouth, with a heart symbol below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • observation category (gallery): Art
  • observation category (gallery): art buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Art Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • observation category (gallery): Art
  • observation category (gallery): art buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Art Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ghost figure heart symbol
  • orange black object
  • beige background
  • heart symbol change
  • body size increase
  • pixelated ghost
  • blue eyes
  • low-resolution animation

Objects

  • orange and black object
  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static comparison of two states

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery blinkies.iconhell.com
  • provenance source-name: Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • observation category (gallery): Art
  • observation category (gallery): art buddy icons
  • observation category (gallery): IconHell
  • observation title (gallery): Art Buddy Icons
  • observation title (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
  • observation file-name (gallery): iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • ghost-like figure

Wordwall

  • ghost-like figure
  • rounded white body
  • black outline
  • small blue eyes
  • orange and black object
  • light beige background
  • orange heart symbol
  • black heart symbol
  • slightly larger body
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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Full source records (3)
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/Art
Title
iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy
Archive entry
IconHell/Art/iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:49 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%2FArt%2Ficonhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif Download: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FArt%2Ficonhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif Page: https://github.com/Hmmnd0/buddy-icon-repository 
Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com (horizon-live-www-iconhell-com-f685daddb571)
Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
art buddy icons / art buddy icons
Title
Art Buddy Icons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.
Original: http://www.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif Download: http://www.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif Page: http://www.iconhell.com/Art_Buddy_Icons.html 
Prospect live gallery blinkies.iconhell.com (horizon-live-blinkies-iconhell-com-031725b87477)
Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
art buddy icons / art buddy icons
Title
Art Buddy Icons
Observed
July 27, 2026 at 11:51 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.
Original: http://blinkies.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif Download: http://blinkies.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_sparkle_fire_blobthingy.gif Page: http://blinkies.iconhell.com/Art_Buddy_Icons.html