Animated 4th of July buddy icon featuring a cartoon character with patriotic symbols and fireworks, displayed as a contact sheet of sequential frames showing motion progression.

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Animated 4th of July buddy icon featuring a cartoon character with patriotic symbols and fireworks, displayed as a contact sheet of sequential frames showing motion progression.

Animated 4th of July buddy icon featuring a cartoon character with patriotic symbols and fireworks, displayed as a contact sheet of sequential frames showing motion progression. A…

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Animation

frame 0-3: static character beside flag; frame 4: character raises hand holding sparkler; frame 5-6: small firework explosion; frame 7-8: larger firework burst; frame 9-10: smaller firework with scattered particles; frame 11-12: largest firework with dense particle spread; frame 13: minimal firework remnants

Animation Summary

Sequential animation showing a patriotic cartoon character igniting a sparkler and triggering multiple firework explosions across 14 frames, with consistent "4th of July" text below each frame.

Composition

  • contact sheet layout showing sequential animation frames with consistent character positioning and background

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 contact sheet containing 14 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon celebrating the 4th of July. Each frame shows a pixelated cartoon character wearing a blue top hat with red-and-white stripes and white stars, dressed in an orange outfit, positioned next to a small American flag on a brown pole. The character holds a dark blue cylindrical object resembling a drink cup. In early frames, the character stands still beside the flag; later frames show the character raising its right hand while holding a sparkler emitting yellow-orange sparks. Subsequent frames depict red-and-blue fireworks explosions with scattered pixelated particles in yellow and white. The background is solid gray, indicating transparency for display purposes. Text reading "4th of July" appears below each frame in a pixelated font matching the animation's style. The animation progresses from static character poses to sparkler ignition, then to multiple firework bursts of varying sizes and particle density across sequential frames.

Description

Animated 4th of July buddy icon featuring a cartoon character with patriotic symbols and fireworks, displayed as a contact sheet of sequential frames showing motion progression.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"Uncertain cartoon character","basis":"both","confidence":0.3,"evidence":"pixelated design lacks distinctive features for specific identification"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: 4th of July buddy icon is supported by visible patriotic symbols and "4th of July" text

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4th of July buddy icon
  • patriotic cartoon character
  • fireworks animation
  • sparkler explosion
  • American flag top hat
  • orange outfit sparkler
  • pixel art 4th of July
  • buddy icon firework sequence
  • top hat red white stripes
  • 4th of July text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4, sampledFrameCount 14, sourceFrameCount 14, gray transparency background for display purposes

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon depiction; no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / 4th of july buddy icon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • 4th of July

Visually Supported Entities

  • American flag
  • fireworks
  • sparkler
  • top hat with red-and-white stripes

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / 4th of july buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
15.7 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b2868d457cd472f6dcb1f89a68a2b4585eb7cd9ab79bb63aa41d7edea74f95d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
b2868d457cd472f6
SHA-256
b2868d457cd472f6dcb1f89a68a2b4585eb7cd9ab79bb63aa41d7edea74f95d6
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 11:16 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000009

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.000009falsesexual0.000005falseviolence0.000003falsehate0.000003falseself-harm0.000003falseillicit0.000002falseviolence/graphic0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 02:49 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106710

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917034onnx/unsafe0.106710onnx/nsfw0.068269onnx/nsfl0.038441
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 21:51 UTC
Run
4
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated 4th of July buddy icon featuring a cartoon character with patriotic symbols and fireworks, displayed as a contact sheet of sequential frames showing motion progression.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 21:51 UTC
Run
4
Version
v3
Elapsed
23,902 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,940, response 1,155

Review tags

  • 4th of july text (text, 1.00)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.98)
  • american flag (symbol, 0.98)
  • fireworks (object, 0.97)
  • orange outfit (clothing, 0.95)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.95)
  • top hat (prop, 0.92)
  • sparkler (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing
  • holding drink cup
  • raising hand
  • igniting sparkler
  • exploding fireworks

Animation

frame 0-3: static character beside flag; frame 4: character raises hand holding sparkler; frame 5-6: small firework explosion; frame 7-8: larger firework burst; frame 9-10: smaller firework with scattered particles; frame 11-12: largest firework with dense particle spread; frame 13: minimal firework remnants

Animation Summary

Sequential animation showing a patriotic cartoon character igniting a sparkler and triggering multiple firework explosions across 14 frames, with consistent "4th of July" text below each frame.

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • orange
  • yellow
  • brown

Composition

  • contact sheet layout showing sequential animation frames with consistent character positioning and background

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 contact sheet containing 14 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon celebrating the 4th of July. Each frame shows a pixelated cartoon character wearing a blue top hat with red-and-white stripes and white stars, dressed in an orange outfit, positioned next to a small American flag on a brown pole. The character holds a dark blue cylindrical object resembling a drink cup. In early frames, the character stands still beside the flag; later frames show the character raising its right hand while holding a sparkler emitting yellow-orange sparks. Subsequent frames depict red-and-blue fireworks explosions with scattered pixelated particles in yellow and white. The background is solid gray, indicating transparency for display purposes. Text reading "4th of July" appears below each frame in a pixelated font matching the animation's style. The animation progresses from static character poses to sparkler ignition, then to multiple firework bursts of varying sizes and particle density across sequential frames.

Description

Animated 4th of July buddy icon featuring a cartoon character with patriotic symbols and fireworks, displayed as a contact sheet of sequential frames showing motion progression.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"Uncertain cartoon character","basis":"both","confidence":0.3,"evidence":"pixelated design lacks distinctive features for specific identification"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: 4th of July buddy icon is supported by visible patriotic symbols and "4th of July" text

Mood

  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4th of July buddy icon
  • patriotic cartoon character
  • fireworks animation
  • sparkler explosion
  • American flag top hat
  • orange outfit sparkler
  • pixel art 4th of July
  • buddy icon firework sequence
  • top hat red white stripes
  • 4th of July text

Objects

  • top hat with red-and-white stripes
  • white stars on top hat
  • orange outfit
  • brown flag pole
  • dark blue cylindrical object
  • yellow-orange sparks
  • red-and-blue firework particles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4, sampledFrameCount 14, sourceFrameCount 14, gray transparency background for display purposes

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon depiction; no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / 4th of july buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • American flag
  • fireworks
  • sparkler

Visible Text

  • 4th of July

Visually Supported Entities

  • American flag
  • fireworks
  • sparkler
  • top hat with red-and-white stripes
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