Animated contact sheet showing 12 sequential frames of a pixelated yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls against gray background.

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Animated contact sheet showing 12 sequential frames of a pixelated yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls against gray background.

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Animation

  • frame 0: standing with two balls
  • frame 1: one ball held, other in motion
  • frame 2: bent knees, both balls visible
  • frame 3: arm extension forward
  • frame 4: single ball release
  • frame 5: recovery position
  • frame 6: new dribble cycle start
  • frame 7: mid-dribble stance
  • frame 8: ball trajectory change
  • frame 9: one-ball hold
  • frame 10: two-ball interaction
  • frame 11: final pose transition

Animation Summary

Sequential frames show yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls, transitioning through holding, releasing, and catching phases across 12 sampled frames.

Composition

  • centered character placement
  • text overlay at bottom of frame
  • consistent gray background across all frames

Dense Caption

Pixel art animation featuring a small yellow stick-figure character with white circular head and simple limbs, repeatedly interacting with bright orange spherical objects resembling basketballs. The character appears in multiple poses across 12 sampled frames: standing upright holding one ball, bending knees to dribble two balls simultaneously, extending arms forward while releasing or catching balls, and transitioning between these positions. Each frame shows the figure against a solid gray background with visible transparency artifacts (black grid lines indicating alpha channel). The animation sequence demonstrates continuous motion of the character's limbs and orange objects through distinct phases: ball pickup, dribbling stance, ball release, and recovery position. Text elements appear as repeated 'Bball Buddy' in purple and white lettering across all frames, partially overlapping with the animated figure. The visual style is retro pixel art with limited color palette (yellow, white, orange, gray) and blocky rendering typical of early digital animation.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 12 sequential frames of a pixelated yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls against gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Bball Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: repeated text overlay and character design matching implied mascot concept

Metadata Only Entities

  • bballbuddy1
  • buddyico_bballbuddy1

Metadata Supported By Image

  • repeated 'Bball Buddy' text in visible frames
  • yellow stick-figure character matches implied mascot concept

Named Entities

  • Bball Buddy | basis visible|both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bball buddy pixel art animation
  • yellow stick figure basketball dribble
  • orange ball motion sequence
  • gray background retro digital icon
  • bball buddy contact sheet frames
  • pixelated yellow character with orange balls
  • basketball animation 12 frame sequence
  • bball buddy text overlay animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3 frames
  • sampled frame count 12
  • source frame count 12
  • gray background with transparency grid lines visible
  • text overlay present in all frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: bballbuddy1 | category: icon / buddy / bballbuddy1 | url: bballbuddy1 | alt: buddyico_bballbuddy1 | category: icon / buddyicons / buddyico bballbuddy1
  • suggests official name 'Bball Buddy' and intended use as AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon

Visible Text

  • Bball Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • bball buddy mascot
  • basketball animation

Wordwall

  • yellow stick-figure character
  • white circular head
  • orange basketballs
  • gray background
  • pixel art animation
  • dribbling motion
  • ball pickup pose
  • two-ball dribble stance
  • arm extension action
  • frame-to-frame movement
  • repeated 'Bball Buddy' text
  • purple and white lettering
  • transparency grid lines
  • blocky rendering style
  • limb position changes
  • orange ball trajectory
  • character silhouette
  • motion sequence
  • gray alpha channel background
  • text overlay

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
bballbuddy1
Category
icon / buddy / bballbuddy1
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddyico_bballbuddy1
Category
icon / buddyicons / buddyico bballbuddy1
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC

Prospect Wayback expansion coolbuddy.com

Source title
buddyico_bballbuddy1
Category
icon / buddyicons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 13:38 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45d444962f18ab35fcee5d2ea2e626e9f46232e5401634cde6f9788da207b1f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:05 UTC
Archive ID
45d444962f18ab35
SHA-256
45d444962f18ab35fcee5d2ea2e626e9f46232e5401634cde6f9788da207b1f2
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 10:52 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088069

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated contact sheet showing 12 sequential frames of a pixelated yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls against gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
9,998 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,996, response 1,354

Review tags

  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.98)
  • bball buddy text overlay (text, 0.98)
  • orange basketballs (object, 0.97)
  • 12 frame sequence (animation, 0.96)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.95)
  • bball buddy mascot (subject, 0.95)
  • retro digital icon (style, 0.94)
  • dribbling motion (action, 0.93)
  • gray background grid (composition, 0.92)

Actions

  • dribbling
  • holding balls
  • releasing balls
  • catching balls
  • limb movement
  • pose transition

Animation

  • frame 0: standing with two balls
  • frame 1: one ball held, other in motion
  • frame 2: bent knees, both balls visible
  • frame 3: arm extension forward
  • frame 4: single ball release
  • frame 5: recovery position
  • frame 6: new dribble cycle start
  • frame 7: mid-dribble stance
  • frame 8: ball trajectory change
  • frame 9: one-ball hold
  • frame 10: two-ball interaction
  • frame 11: final pose transition

Animation Summary

Sequential frames show yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls, transitioning through holding, releasing, and catching phases across 12 sampled frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • orange
  • gray
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • centered character placement
  • text overlay at bottom of frame
  • consistent gray background across all frames

Dense Caption

Pixel art animation featuring a small yellow stick-figure character with white circular head and simple limbs, repeatedly interacting with bright orange spherical objects resembling basketballs. The character appears in multiple poses across 12 sampled frames: standing upright holding one ball, bending knees to dribble two balls simultaneously, extending arms forward while releasing or catching balls, and transitioning between these positions. Each frame shows the figure against a solid gray background with visible transparency artifacts (black grid lines indicating alpha channel). The animation sequence demonstrates continuous motion of the character's limbs and orange objects through distinct phases: ball pickup, dribbling stance, ball release, and recovery position. Text elements appear as repeated 'Bball Buddy' in purple and white lettering across all frames, partially overlapping with the animated figure. The visual style is retro pixel art with limited color palette (yellow, white, orange, gray) and blocky rendering typical of early digital animation.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 12 sequential frames of a pixelated yellow stick figure performing basketball dribbling motions with orange balls against gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Bball Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: repeated text overlay and character design matching implied mascot concept

Metadata Only Entities

  • bballbuddy1
  • buddyico_bballbuddy1

Metadata Supported By Image

  • repeated 'Bball Buddy' text in visible frames
  • yellow stick-figure character matches implied mascot concept

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic
  • simple cartoonish

Named Entities

  • Bball Buddy | basis visible|both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bball buddy pixel art animation
  • yellow stick figure basketball dribble
  • orange ball motion sequence
  • gray background retro digital icon
  • bball buddy contact sheet frames
  • pixelated yellow character with orange balls
  • basketball animation 12 frame sequence
  • bball buddy text overlay animation

Objects

  • orange spherical objects
  • gray background grid

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3 frames
  • sampled frame count 12
  • source frame count 12
  • gray background with transparency grid lines visible
  • text overlay present in all frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: bballbuddy1 | category: icon / buddy / bballbuddy1 | url: bballbuddy1 | alt: buddyico_bballbuddy1 | category: icon / buddyicons / buddyico bballbuddy1
  • suggests official name 'Bball Buddy' and intended use as AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital animation
  • blocky rendering

Subjects

  • yellow stick-figure character
  • orange basketballs

Visible Text

  • Bball Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • bball buddy mascot
  • basketball animation

Wordwall

  • yellow stick-figure character
  • white circular head
  • orange basketballs
  • gray background
  • pixel art animation
  • dribbling motion
  • ball pickup pose
  • two-ball dribble stance
  • arm extension action
  • frame-to-frame movement
  • repeated 'Bball Buddy' text
  • purple and white lettering
  • transparency grid lines
  • blocky rendering style
  • limb position changes
  • orange ball trajectory
  • character silhouette
  • motion sequence
  • gray alpha channel background
  • text overlay
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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 / bballbuddy1
Alt
bballbuddy1
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

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 / buddyicons / buddyico bballbuddy1
Alt
buddyico_bballbuddy1
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

Prospect Wayback expansion coolbuddy.com (horizon-wayback-coolbuddy-com-4c18b5a4f5c3)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Type
prospect-queue-wayback-expansion
Category
icon / buddyicons
Alt
buddyico_bballbuddy1
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 13:38 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed archived prospect; preserve capture provenance and review rights before redistribution.