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Pixel art character with large eyes, brown vertical stripes on a light blue body, and small feet against gray background.

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Pixel art character with large eyes, brown vertical stripes on a light blue body, and small feet against gray background.

Pixel art character with large eyes, brown vertical stripes on a light blue body, and small feet against gray background. 85×59 GIF AIM buddy icon from PixelJoint Video Game AIM/M…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image only.

Composition

  • centered rectangular figure
  • symmetrical eye placement
  • vertical stripe pattern

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a rectangular figure with rounded corners. Light blue face has two white oval eyes with black pupils and dark outlines. Two thick brown vertical stripes run from top to bottom of the face. Small horizontal black mouth is centered below eyes. Brown side appendages extend left and right. Dark blue feet rest on gray background. White border frames entire figure. Pixelated texture visible throughout. No text present.

Description

  • Pixel art character with large eyes, brown vertical stripes on a light blue body, and small feet against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Balrog from Cavestory icon
  • 2014
  • PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • aim-buddy-icons
  • forum-avatars

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art
  • provenance collection-attribute: forum-avatars

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character with brown stripes and white eyes
  • light blue pixel figure with dark blue feet
  • rectangular pixel character gray background
  • brown striped light blue face white oval eyes

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • light blue body
  • brown vertical stripes
  • white oval eyes
  • black pupils
  • dark outline
  • small horizontal mouth
  • brown side appendages
  • dark blue feet
  • gray background
  • white border

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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
85×59 pixels
File size
996 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a184e86d27118ff386ef19eb3a6cd6b05c114929175b6bd97767de0d98d6375.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
8a184e86d27118ff
SHA-256
8a184e86d27118ff386ef19eb3a6cd6b05c114929175b6bd97767de0d98d6375
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077479

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixel art character with large eyes, brown vertical stripes on a light blue body, and small feet against gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,879 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,048, response 552

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • white border (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • rectangular figure with rounded corners (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image only.

Colors

  • light blue
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • dark blue
  • gray
  • white border

Composition

  • centered rectangular figure
  • symmetrical eye placement
  • vertical stripe pattern

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a rectangular figure with rounded corners. Light blue face has two white oval eyes with black pupils and dark outlines. Two thick brown vertical stripes run from top to bottom of the face. Small horizontal black mouth is centered below eyes. Brown side appendages extend left and right. Dark blue feet rest on gray background. White border frames entire figure. Pixelated texture visible throughout. No text present.

Description

  • Pixel art character with large eyes, brown vertical stripes on a light blue body, and small feet against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Balrog from Cavestory icon
  • 2014
  • PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • aim-buddy-icons
  • forum-avatars

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art
  • provenance collection-attribute: forum-avatars

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art character with brown stripes and white eyes
  • light blue pixel figure with dark blue feet
  • rectangular pixel character gray background
  • brown striped light blue face white oval eyes

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • rectangular figure with rounded corners

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • light blue body
  • brown vertical stripes
  • white oval eyes
  • black pupils
  • dark outline
  • small horizontal mouth
  • brown side appendages
  • dark blue feet
  • gray background
  • white border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:52 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)
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
Balrog from Cavestory 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/balrog_stationary_finalproduct.gif Download: https://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/balrog_stationary_finalproduct.gif Page: https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/28111.htm