Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, emitting light rays from behind, displayed in 25 frames across a gray background grid.

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Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, emitting light rays from behind, displayed in 25 frames across a gray background grid.

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, emitting light rays from behind, displayed in 25 frames across a gray background grid. Animated 50×50 GIF…

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Animation

  • frame 0-12: bright golden-yellow radiating light rays; frame 13-25: gradual fade to white then disappearance of light rays

Animation Summary

Progressive fade of golden-yellow radiating light rays from behind a static yellow stick figure across 25 sampled frames; early frames show bright dithered rays that gradually transition to white and disappear in later frames while the character remains unchanged.

Composition

  • central subject in square frame
  • 5x5 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

A static contact sheet displays 25 animated frames arranged in a 5x5 grid on a solid gray background. Each frame features the same central subject: a small yellow stick-figure character with a white circular head and arms raised upward. The figure emits radiating light rays from behind it, transitioning through multiple states of brightness and opacity across frames. In early frames (0-12), the light rays are bright golden-yellow with visible dithering patterns; in later frames (13-25), they gradually fade to white and then disappear entirely. The stick figure remains consistent throughout all 25 sampled frames, maintaining its pose of raised arms and circular head. Each frame is a square icon measuring approximately 50x50 pixels with transparent background edges visible as gray in the contact sheet layout. The animation sequence shows progressive light-ray dissipation from left-to-right and top-to-bottom across the grid, creating a fading-out effect for the character's aura without any change to the figure itself.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, emitting light rays from behind, displayed in 25 frames across a gray background grid.

Identity Hypotheses

Reflect a Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text on all frames, consistent animation style matching historical AOL buddy icons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints do not specify character name or exact animation purpose beyond 'buddy' context

Metadata Only Entities

  • Animation4
  • wayback-coolbuddy-gifs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text 'Reflect a Buddy' matches visible text on all frames
  • yellow stick figure with light rays is consistent across sampled frames

Named Entities

  • Reflect a Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure reflect a buddy animation
  • reflect a buddy light rays fade
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon animation4

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 5x5 grid layout, sampled 25 frames from source animation (total 27), gray background for transparency rendering
  • sourceFrameCount=27, sampledFrameCount=25, sampledFrameIndices=[0,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation with no nudity, gore, hate symbols, or sexual content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'Animation4' and 'wayback-coolbuddy-gifs', possibly related to a historical AOL buddy animation series
  • alt: Animation4 | category: icon / buddy / animation4 | url: Animation4

Visible Text

  • Reflect a Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon series

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white circular head
  • raised arms pose
  • radiating light rays
  • golden-yellow light rays
  • dithering pattern on rays
  • progressive fade animation
  • 25 sampled frames
  • gray background grid
  • transparent icon edges
  • contact sheet layout
  • no facial features
  • consistent character pose
  • light ray dissipation
  • frame-by-frame brightness change
  • pixelated rendering
  • small 50x50 pixel size
  • static figure movement
  • white light rays
  • fading aura effect

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
Animation4
Category
icon / buddy / animation4
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
29.6 KB
Motion
Animated (27 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/39468f4357d6d094ffd1e6a05a2497cf2781c4f46fe8959e683fb11080bfbf83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:05 UTC
Archive ID
39468f4357d6d094
SHA-256
39468f4357d6d094ffd1e6a05a2497cf2781c4f46fe8959e683fb11080bfbf83
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113917

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915535onnx/unsafe0.113917onnx/nsfw0.076484onnx/nsfl0.037433
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 12:18 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.900000

OpenAI category scores

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

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, emitting light rays from behind, displayed in 25 frames across a gray background grid.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 12:18 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
8,703 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,557, response 1,232

Review tags

  • reflect a buddy text (text, 1.00)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • 25 sampled frames (animation, 0.90)
  • gray background grid (composition, 0.90)
  • aol instant messenger icon (context, 0.90)
  • light rays (object, 0.90)
  • progressive fade animation (animation, 0.85)
  • pixelated cartoon style (style, 0.85)

Actions

  • emitting radiating light rays
  • progressive fade animation

Animation

  • frame 0-12: bright golden-yellow radiating light rays; frame 13-25: gradual fade to white then disappearance of light rays

Animation Summary

Progressive fade of golden-yellow radiating light rays from behind a static yellow stick figure across 25 sampled frames; early frames show bright dithered rays that gradually transition to white and disappear in later frames while the character remains unchanged.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • golden-yellow

Composition

  • central subject in square frame
  • 5x5 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

A static contact sheet displays 25 animated frames arranged in a 5x5 grid on a solid gray background. Each frame features the same central subject: a small yellow stick-figure character with a white circular head and arms raised upward. The figure emits radiating light rays from behind it, transitioning through multiple states of brightness and opacity across frames. In early frames (0-12), the light rays are bright golden-yellow with visible dithering patterns; in later frames (13-25), they gradually fade to white and then disappear entirely. The stick figure remains consistent throughout all 25 sampled frames, maintaining its pose of raised arms and circular head. Each frame is a square icon measuring approximately 50x50 pixels with transparent background edges visible as gray in the contact sheet layout. The animation sequence shows progressive light-ray dissipation from left-to-right and top-to-bottom across the grid, creating a fading-out effect for the character's aura without any change to the figure itself.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, emitting light rays from behind, displayed in 25 frames across a gray background grid.

Identity Hypotheses

Reflect a Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text on all frames, consistent animation style matching historical AOL buddy icons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints do not specify character name or exact animation purpose beyond 'buddy' context

Metadata Only Entities

  • Animation4
  • wayback-coolbuddy-gifs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text 'Reflect a Buddy' matches visible text on all frames
  • yellow stick figure with light rays is consistent across sampled frames

Mood

  • calming
  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Reflect a Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure reflect a buddy animation
  • reflect a buddy light rays fade
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon animation4

Objects

  • radiating light rays

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 5x5 grid layout, sampled 25 frames from source animation (total 27), gray background for transparency rendering
  • sourceFrameCount=27, sampledFrameCount=25, sampledFrameIndices=[0,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation with no nudity, gore, hate symbols, or sexual content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'Animation4' and 'wayback-coolbuddy-gifs', possibly related to a historical AOL buddy animation series
  • alt: Animation4 | category: icon / buddy / animation4 | url: Animation4

Style

  • pixelated cartoon
  • 2D animation
  • simple icon style

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure with white head and arms

Visible Text

  • Reflect a Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon series

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white circular head
  • raised arms pose
  • radiating light rays
  • golden-yellow light rays
  • dithering pattern on rays
  • progressive fade animation
  • 25 sampled frames
  • gray background grid
  • transparent icon edges
  • contact sheet layout
  • no facial features
  • consistent character pose
  • light ray dissipation
  • frame-by-frame brightness change
  • pixelated rendering
  • small 50x50 pixel size
  • static figure movement
  • white light rays
  • fading aura effect
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Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / buddy / animation4
Alt
Animation4
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage