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Pixel art representation of a game controller directional pad and select button on light gray background.

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Pixel art representation of a game controller directional pad and select button on light gray background.

Pixel art representation of a game controller directional pad and select button on light gray background. 100×100 GIF AIM buddy icon from PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central directional pad
  • select button positioned below and to the right

Dense Caption

Black cross-shaped directional pad with four arrow points (left, right, up, down) has white outline; each arm contains three vertical lines. Center is dark circular depression. Below and to the right, gray oval 'SELECT' button appears in blue pixelated text. Background is solid light gray. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixel art representation of a game controller directional pad and select button on light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (gallery): Full size gameboy icon
  • observation category (gallery): video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • forum-avatars

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art game controller directional pad select button
  • black cross shaped d-pad blue SELECT text

Visible Text

  • SELECT

Visually Supported Entities

  • game controller

Wordwall

  • black directional pad
  • white outline
  • three vertical lines per arm
  • dark center depression
  • gray oval button
  • blue pixelated SELECT text
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section

Source title
Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
Category
pixelart / 2014 / video games / video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
Era
Late-2000s Pixel Art / Forum Avatar Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 18:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
100×100 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77214532a28cc55c3e66be80316fc6091652b3b5667cf094d7c079a2a908699f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
77214532a28cc55c
SHA-256
77214532a28cc55c3e66be80316fc6091652b3b5667cf094d7c079a2a908699f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071082

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

Pixel art representation of a game controller directional pad and select button on light gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:55 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,568 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,046, response 533

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • directional pad (object, 0.80)
  • select button (object, 0.80)
  • game controller (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • blue

Composition

  • central directional pad
  • select button positioned below and to the right

Dense Caption

Black cross-shaped directional pad with four arrow points (left, right, up, down) has white outline; each arm contains three vertical lines. Center is dark circular depression. Below and to the right, gray oval 'SELECT' button appears in blue pixelated text. Background is solid light gray. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixel art representation of a game controller directional pad and select button on light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (gallery): Full size gameboy icon
  • observation category (gallery): video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • forum-avatars

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art game controller directional pad select button
  • black cross shaped d-pad blue SELECT text

Objects

  • directional pad
  • select button

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • game controller

Visible Text

  • SELECT

Visually Supported Entities

  • game controller

Wordwall

  • black directional pad
  • white outline
  • three vertical lines per arm
  • dark center depression
  • gray oval button
  • blue pixelated SELECT text
  • light gray background
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Full source records (1)
PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section (pixeljoint-video-game-aim-icons-cross-section)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Late-2000s Pixel Art / Forum Avatar Gallery
Type
live pixel-art gallery cross-section
Category
pixelart / 2014 / video games / video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
Title
Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
Alt
Full size gameboy icon/pixelart
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 18:39 UTC
Rights
mixed creator and fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
video-game pixel-art icons overlapping AIM buddy icons, messenger icons, and forum avatars
Original: https://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/gameboy_full_thumb.gif Download: https://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/gameboy_full_thumb.gif Page: https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/11399.htm