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A pixelated image shows a figure with glowing yellow and orange hair against a dark background, surrounded by purple and blue light effects.

A pixelated image shows a figure with glowing yellow and orange hair against a dark background, surrounded by purple and blue light effects. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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Composition

  • central figure
  • surrounded by light effects
  • asymmetrical arrangement of colors

Dense Caption

The static icon features a central figure with bright yellow-orange hair that appears to glow. The figure's face is partially visible on the right side of the composition, showing a white area suggesting skin or clothing. Purple and pink pixelated shapes surround the figure on the left, while blue and cyan light effects appear in the upper-right and lower-right corners. The background consists of dark pixels with scattered blue tones. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art, with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a figure with glowing yellow and orange hair against a dark background, surrounded by purple and blue light effects.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • buddy-icons-us
  • AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material
  • non-square icons
  • Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • aim-icons
  • buddy-icons
  • gif
  • non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • glowing hair figure pixel art
  • purple blue light effects icon
  • low resolution digital art character
  • central figure surrounded by color fields

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • glowing hair
  • purple light effects
  • blue background accents
  • pixelated rendering
  • central figure composition

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / l
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:45 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / l
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c5e86dcbf48617b135c485214065168eaa0e519efef8b32d8fa37f0a5a7cb910.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:45 UTC
Archive ID
c5e86dcbf48617b1
SHA-256
c5e86dcbf48617b135c485214065168eaa0e519efef8b32d8fa37f0a5a7cb910
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095957

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

A pixelated image shows a figure with glowing yellow and orange hair against a dark background, surrounded by purple and blue light effects.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,037 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,077, response 540

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow orange (color, 0.80)
  • glowing effects (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow-orange
  • purple
  • pink
  • blue
  • cyan
  • white
  • dark

Composition

  • central figure
  • surrounded by light effects
  • asymmetrical arrangement of colors

Dense Caption

The static icon features a central figure with bright yellow-orange hair that appears to glow. The figure's face is partially visible on the right side of the composition, showing a white area suggesting skin or clothing. Purple and pink pixelated shapes surround the figure on the left, while blue and cyan light effects appear in the upper-right and lower-right corners. The background consists of dark pixels with scattered blue tones. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art, with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a figure with glowing yellow and orange hair against a dark background, surrounded by purple and blue light effects.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • buddy-icons-us
  • AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material
  • non-square icons
  • Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • aim-icons
  • buddy-icons
  • gif
  • non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • glowing hair figure pixel art
  • purple blue light effects icon
  • low resolution digital art character
  • central figure surrounded by color fields

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital art
  • glowing effects

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • glowing hair
  • purple light effects
  • blue background accents
  • pixelated rendering
  • central figure composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:08 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 (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / l
Alt
laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:45 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/l/laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20040808155527id_/http://buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/l/laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / l
Alt
laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/l/laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20040808155527id_/http://buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/l/laf1d98b418-IMBUDDY.gif