Animated contact sheet showing 14 sequential frames of a pixel art character performing actions with objects against gray and yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" text below each frame.

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Animated contact sheet showing 14 sequential frames of a pixel art character performing actions with objects against gray and yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" text below each frame.

Animated contact sheet showing 14 sequential frames of a pixel art character performing actions with objects against gray and yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" text bel…

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Animation

  • frame 0-3: tower interaction
  • frame 4-7: doorway approach
  • frame 8-13: umbrella object handling
  • subtle pose changes across frames
  • consistent character design throughout animation

Animation Summary

14-frame pixel art animation showing a yellow stick figure character with white head interacting with blue towers, brown doorways, and pink umbrella objects against gray/yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" in each frame.

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • individual frames with consistent character placement
  • background elements vary between gray and yellow sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid contact sheet containing 14 animated frames (with two empty slots) from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. Each frame features a small pixelated character with a white circular head and yellow body against either gray or yellow backgrounds. The character repeatedly interacts with blue blocky structures resembling towers, pink umbrella-like objects, and brown doorways while the text "Bad Luck Buddy" appears in black pixelated font beneath each frame. In early frames (0-3), the character stands beside a blue tower structure on a green strip of ground. Frames 4-7 show the character near a brown doorway with framed pictures on yellow walls. Later frames (8-13) depict the character holding pink umbrella-like objects, sometimes interacting with doorways or structures. The animation shows subtle pose changes including arm movements and object interactions across sequential frames. All elements use limited pixel art colors: gray, yellow, blue, white, brown, green, and pink. The background is a solid gray transparency layer typical of AIM buddy icons. Each frame maintains consistent character design with minimal facial features (no visible eyes or mouth) but distinct body movements between frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 14 sequential frames of a pixel art character performing actions with objects against gray and yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" text below each frame.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Bad Luck Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: exact text match and visual consistency across frames

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Bad Luck Buddy" text matches visible label
  • pixel art style consistent with AIM era animations

Named Entities

  • Bad Luck Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bad luck buddy pixel art animation
  • yellow stick figure bad luck buddy icon
  • aim instant messenger buddy icon animation
  • 4x4 contact sheet bad luck buddy frames
  • pixelated bad luck buddy text label

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout is 4x4 with 14 visible frames (2 empty slots)
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count of 14
  • gray background indicates transparency layer for buddy icon display
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom chronologically

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character animation with no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / bad luck buddy buddy icon

Visible Text

  • Bad Luck Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • bad luck buddy character series

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white circular head
  • blue blocky tower
  • pink umbrella object
  • brown doorway
  • gray ground strip
  • yellow wall background
  • black pixelated text
  • Bad Luck Buddy label
  • sequential animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet grid
  • pixel art style
  • limited color palette
  • character arm movements
  • object interaction sequence
  • frame-to-frame pose changes
  • transparent gray background
  • green horizontal stripe
  • framed picture on wall
  • brown pillar structure

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / bad luck buddy 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
16.5 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d6051786779de016faaa28384af5d6c7ffebbc1f6a983676452bf0b3e7abff03.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
d6051786779de016
SHA-256
d6051786779de016faaa28384af5d6c7ffebbc1f6a983676452bf0b3e7abff03
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095536

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912397onnx/unsafe0.095536onnx/nsfw0.055987onnx/nsfl0.039549
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 22:14 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 showing 14 sequential frames of a pixel art character performing actions with objects against gray and yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" text below each frame.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 22:14 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
33,419 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,936, response 1,487

Review tags

  • bad luck buddy label (text, 1.00)
  • black pixelated text (text, 1.00)
  • sequential animation frames (animation, 0.95)
  • transparent gray background (background, 0.95)
  • 4x4 contact sheet grid (layout, 0.95)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • white circular head (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • object interaction sequence (animation, 0.90)
  • yellow wall background (background, 0.90)
  • limited color palette (color scheme, 0.90)
  • blue blocky tower (object, 0.90)
  • brown doorway (object, 0.90)
  • character arm movements (action, 0.85)
  • gray ground strip (background element, 0.85)
  • pink umbrella object (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing next to tower
  • approaching doorway
  • holding pink umbrella object
  • interacting with doorways
  • arm movements between frames

Animation

  • frame 0-3: tower interaction
  • frame 4-7: doorway approach
  • frame 8-13: umbrella object handling
  • subtle pose changes across frames
  • consistent character design throughout animation

Animation Summary

14-frame pixel art animation showing a yellow stick figure character with white head interacting with blue towers, brown doorways, and pink umbrella objects against gray/yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" in each frame.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • individual frames with consistent character placement
  • background elements vary between gray and yellow sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid contact sheet containing 14 animated frames (with two empty slots) from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. Each frame features a small pixelated character with a white circular head and yellow body against either gray or yellow backgrounds. The character repeatedly interacts with blue blocky structures resembling towers, pink umbrella-like objects, and brown doorways while the text "Bad Luck Buddy" appears in black pixelated font beneath each frame. In early frames (0-3), the character stands beside a blue tower structure on a green strip of ground. Frames 4-7 show the character near a brown doorway with framed pictures on yellow walls. Later frames (8-13) depict the character holding pink umbrella-like objects, sometimes interacting with doorways or structures. The animation shows subtle pose changes including arm movements and object interactions across sequential frames. All elements use limited pixel art colors: gray, yellow, blue, white, brown, green, and pink. The background is a solid gray transparency layer typical of AIM buddy icons. Each frame maintains consistent character design with minimal facial features (no visible eyes or mouth) but distinct body movements between frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 14 sequential frames of a pixel art character performing actions with objects against gray and yellow backgrounds, labeled "Bad Luck Buddy" text below each frame.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Bad Luck Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: exact text match and visual consistency across frames

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Bad Luck Buddy" text matches visible label
  • pixel art style consistent with AIM era animations

Mood

  • playful
  • cartoonish
  • nostalgic retro

Named Entities

  • Bad Luck Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bad luck buddy pixel art animation
  • yellow stick figure bad luck buddy icon
  • aim instant messenger buddy icon animation
  • 4x4 contact sheet bad luck buddy frames
  • pixelated bad luck buddy text label

Objects

  • blue blocky tower
  • pink umbrella-like object
  • brown doorway structure
  • framed picture on wall
  • green horizontal stripe ground element
  • brown pillar structure

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout is 4x4 with 14 visible frames (2 empty slots)
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count of 14
  • gray background indicates transparency layer for buddy icon display
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom chronologically

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character animation with no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / bad luck buddy buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • retro digital graphics

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white circular head

Visible Text

  • Bad Luck Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • bad luck buddy character series

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white circular head
  • blue blocky tower
  • pink umbrella object
  • brown doorway
  • gray ground strip
  • yellow wall background
  • black pixelated text
  • Bad Luck Buddy label
  • sequential animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet grid
  • pixel art style
  • limited color palette
  • character arm movements
  • object interaction sequence
  • frame-to-frame pose changes
  • transparent gray background
  • green horizontal stripe
  • framed picture on wall
  • brown pillar structure
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