Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons showing two characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles across 17 frames on a gray background.

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Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons showing two characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles across 17 frames on a gray background.

Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons showing two characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles across 17 frames on a gray background. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM b…

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Animation

  • frame 0-7: character holds red object
  • frame 8: speech bubble appears with "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?"
  • frame 9-14: character holds red object again
  • frame 15: speech bubble appears with "NOOO!!!"
  • frame 16: character raises arms

Animation Summary

17-frame animation showing two pixel art characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles containing "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" and "NOOO!!!" while one character alternates between holding a red object and empty hands.

Composition

  • side-by-side characters
  • centered on gray background
  • consistent framing across frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x4 grid (20 slots) containing 17 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon sequence. Each frame features two pixelated characters: one in blue clothing with white hair, the other in black and red attire with white hair. The character in blue consistently wears a solid blue shirt while the second character alternates between holding a red object (possibly a book or bag) and having empty hands across frames. Speech bubbles appear in specific frames containing text like "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" and "NOOO!!!". All icons share identical gray background transparency, with no visible borders or additional elements beyond the characters and speech bubbles. The animation sequence shows subtle changes in character poses (e.g., arm positions) and facial expressions while maintaining consistent pixel art style throughout all frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons showing two characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles across 17 frames on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"unidentified characters","basis":"both","confidence":0.3,"evidence":"pixelated faces with no distinctive features"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "badass buddy icons" name not visually confirmed
  • "back to school 2" implies multiple sets but only one set shown

Metadata Only Entities

  • "badass buddy icons"
  • "back to school 2"

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Back To School" text visible on all frames

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • back to school pixel art buddy icon
  • why are you crying speech bubble
  • noot speech bubble animation
  • blue and black character pixel art
  • 17 frame back to school animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x4 (20 slots)
  • sampled frame count 17 from source frame count 17
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • all frames share identical base design

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • text is emotional but not sexualized

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hint suggests "badass buddy icons" and "back to school 2" but image shows only one theme

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • Back To School
  • WHY ARE YOU CRYING?
  • NOOO!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Back To School" theme

Wordwall

  • two pixelated characters
  • blue shirt character
  • black red outfit character
  • gray background
  • speech bubble text
  • "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?"
  • "NOOO!!!"
  • red object held by black red character
  • white hair on both characters
  • solid blue shirt
  • black and red clothing
  • pixel art style
  • 17-frame animation sequence
  • character pose changes
  • facial expression differences
  • gray transparency background
  • text bubbles in frames 8 and 15
  • no visible borders or additional elements
  • consistent pixel resolution
  • frame-to-frame motion changes
  • blue character arms raised in some frames
  • red object held in left hand
  • white text on black speech bubble
  • pixelated facial features
  • character standing side-by-side

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / back to school 2 buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
17.7 KB
Motion
Animated (17 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/932775e75822ed9b35cf6622026361dddf151f7a828b9a87886917fca25f5ed1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
932775e75822ed9b
SHA-256
932775e75822ed9b35cf6622026361dddf151f7a828b9a87886917fca25f5ed1
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094467

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912556onnx/unsafe0.094467onnx/nsfw0.053328onnx/nsfl0.041139
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 22:13 UTC
Run
6
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 contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons showing two characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles across 17 frames on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 22:13 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
23,156 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,208, response 1,218

Review tags

  • gray background transparency (background, 0.95)
  • pixel art characters (subject, 0.95)
  • back to school text (text, 0.95)
  • nooo text (text, 0.95)
  • why are you crying text (text, 0.95)
  • black red outfit character (subject, 0.90)
  • blue shirt character (subject, 0.90)
  • speech bubble animation (animation, 0.85)

Actions

  • holding red object
  • speaking via speech bubble
  • changing facial expressions
  • altering arm positions

Animation

  • frame 0-7: character holds red object
  • frame 8: speech bubble appears with "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?"
  • frame 9-14: character holds red object again
  • frame 15: speech bubble appears with "NOOO!!!"
  • frame 16: character raises arms

Animation Summary

17-frame animation showing two pixel art characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles containing "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" and "NOOO!!!" while one character alternates between holding a red object and empty hands.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • side-by-side characters
  • centered on gray background
  • consistent framing across frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x4 grid (20 slots) containing 17 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon sequence. Each frame features two pixelated characters: one in blue clothing with white hair, the other in black and red attire with white hair. The character in blue consistently wears a solid blue shirt while the second character alternates between holding a red object (possibly a book or bag) and having empty hands across frames. Speech bubbles appear in specific frames containing text like "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" and "NOOO!!!". All icons share identical gray background transparency, with no visible borders or additional elements beyond the characters and speech bubbles. The animation sequence shows subtle changes in character poses (e.g., arm positions) and facial expressions while maintaining consistent pixel art style throughout all frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons showing two characters with changing expressions and speech bubbles across 17 frames on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"unidentified characters","basis":"both","confidence":0.3,"evidence":"pixelated faces with no distinctive features"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "badass buddy icons" name not visually confirmed
  • "back to school 2" implies multiple sets but only one set shown

Metadata Only Entities

  • "badass buddy icons"
  • "back to school 2"

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Back To School" text visible on all frames

Mood

  • emotional
  • dramatic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • back to school pixel art buddy icon
  • why are you crying speech bubble
  • noot speech bubble animation
  • blue and black character pixel art
  • 17 frame back to school animation

Objects

  • red object (book/bag)
  • speech bubbles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x4 (20 slots)
  • sampled frame count 17 from source frame count 17
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • all frames share identical base design

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • text is emotional but not sexualized

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hint suggests "badass buddy icons" and "back to school 2" but image shows only one theme

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • two pixelated characters
  • blue-shirted character
  • black-red-outfitted character

Visible Text

  • Back To School
  • WHY ARE YOU CRYING?
  • NOOO!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Back To School" theme

Wordwall

  • two pixelated characters
  • blue shirt character
  • black red outfit character
  • gray background
  • speech bubble text
  • "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?"
  • "NOOO!!!"
  • red object held by black red character
  • white hair on both characters
  • solid blue shirt
  • black and red clothing
  • pixel art style
  • 17-frame animation sequence
  • character pose changes
  • facial expression differences
  • gray transparency background
  • text bubbles in frames 8 and 15
  • no visible borders or additional elements
  • consistent pixel resolution
  • frame-to-frame motion changes
  • blue character arms raised in some frames
  • red object held in left hand
  • white text on black speech bubble
  • pixelated facial features
  • character standing side-by-side
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