Pixel art animated contact sheet showing five frames of a beach-themed buddy icon with consistent text and background elements across all frames.

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Pixel art animated contact sheet showing five frames of a beach-themed buddy icon with consistent text and background elements across all frames.

Pixel art animated contact sheet showing five frames of a beach-themed buddy icon with consistent text and background elements across all frames. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Animation

  • frame 1: full beach scene with side vegetation
  • frame 2: reduced left-side vegetation
  • frame 3: minimal right-side vegetation
  • frame 4: simplified background without sand/water details
  • frame 5: character in slightly different position

Animation Summary

Five-frame pixel art animation cycling through variations of a beach scene with consistent character pose and text, showing reduced vegetation details across frames while maintaining core elements like suns, clouds, sailboats, and water patterns.

Composition

  • 3x2 contact sheet layout
  • central character placement
  • consistent text below each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x2 grid contact sheet containing five distinct animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features the same pixelated beach scene: light brown sand, blue water with white wave patterns, yellow suns, white clouds, small sailboats, and sparse vegetation on both sides. A central character lies on a red-and-white striped towel or blanket in the water; this figure appears to be a cartoonish person wearing a white hat and dark clothing. The text "Beach Buddy" is displayed below each frame in bold black pixelated font against a gray background strip. All frames share identical static elements including sky, sand, water, vegetation, sailboats, suns, clouds, and the character's pose. Frame 1 (top-left) shows full beach scene with all side vegetation; Frame 2 (top-middle) has reduced left-side vegetation; Frame 3 (top-right) shows minimal right-side vegetation; Frame 4 (bottom-left) displays a simplified background without sand or water details; Frame 5 (bottom-middle) features the character in a slightly different position. The animation appears to cycle through these five variations while maintaining consistent text and core visual elements.

Description

Pixel art animated contact sheet showing five frames of a beach-themed buddy icon with consistent text and background elements across all frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Beach Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"text visible in all frames"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • beach theme
  • buddy icon name "Beach Buddy"

Named Entities

  • Beach Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach buddy pixel art animation
  • aol instant messenger beach icon
  • 5 frame contact sheet beach buddy
  • cartoon beach scene with sun clouds sailboats

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x2
  • sampled frame count 5
  • source frame count 5
  • gray transparency background strip between frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character lying on towel in beach setting

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / beach buddy 1 buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • Beach Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • yellow suns
  • white clouds
  • small sailboats
  • sparse vegetation
  • light brown sand
  • blue water
  • white wave patterns
  • red-and-white striped towel
  • cartoonish person
  • white hat
  • dark clothing
  • Beach Buddy text
  • pixel art animation
  • 5-frame contact sheet
  • gray background strip
  • consistent character pose
  • reduced side vegetation
  • simplified background frame
  • water splash effects

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / beach buddy 1 buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/18a56d7e4c5acfc07a7143f134f72eebd8c6e35fe79d9fa16566b7bd14656777.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
18a56d7e4c5acfc0
SHA-256
18a56d7e4c5acfc07a7143f134f72eebd8c6e35fe79d9fa16566b7bd14656777
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077205

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924527onnx/unsafe0.077205onnx/nsfw0.041101onnx/nsfl0.036104
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
Run
6
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixel art animated contact sheet showing five frames of a beach-themed buddy icon with consistent text and background elements across all frames.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
31,289 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,971, response 1,346

Review tags

  • beach buddy text (text, 1.00)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.98)
  • beach scene (subject, 0.98)
  • 5 frame contact sheet (composition, 0.95)
  • blue water (object, 0.95)
  • gray background strip (object, 0.95)
  • light brown sand (object, 0.95)
  • white clouds (object, 0.95)
  • white hat (object, 0.95)
  • yellow suns (object, 0.95)
  • cartoonish person (subject, 0.95)
  • red and white striped towel (object, 0.92)
  • small sailboats (object, 0.92)
  • sparse vegetation (object, 0.88)
  • dark clothing (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • lying down

Animation

  • frame 1: full beach scene with side vegetation
  • frame 2: reduced left-side vegetation
  • frame 3: minimal right-side vegetation
  • frame 4: simplified background without sand/water details
  • frame 5: character in slightly different position

Animation Summary

Five-frame pixel art animation cycling through variations of a beach scene with consistent character pose and text, showing reduced vegetation details across frames while maintaining core elements like suns, clouds, sailboats, and water patterns.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • blue
  • light brown
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • 3x2 contact sheet layout
  • central character placement
  • consistent text below each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x2 grid contact sheet containing five distinct animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features the same pixelated beach scene: light brown sand, blue water with white wave patterns, yellow suns, white clouds, small sailboats, and sparse vegetation on both sides. A central character lies on a red-and-white striped towel or blanket in the water; this figure appears to be a cartoonish person wearing a white hat and dark clothing. The text "Beach Buddy" is displayed below each frame in bold black pixelated font against a gray background strip. All frames share identical static elements including sky, sand, water, vegetation, sailboats, suns, clouds, and the character's pose. Frame 1 (top-left) shows full beach scene with all side vegetation; Frame 2 (top-middle) has reduced left-side vegetation; Frame 3 (top-right) shows minimal right-side vegetation; Frame 4 (bottom-left) displays a simplified background without sand or water details; Frame 5 (bottom-middle) features the character in a slightly different position. The animation appears to cycle through these five variations while maintaining consistent text and core visual elements.

Description

Pixel art animated contact sheet showing five frames of a beach-themed buddy icon with consistent text and background elements across all frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Beach Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"text visible in all frames"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • beach theme
  • buddy icon name "Beach Buddy"

Mood

  • relaxed
  • summer
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Beach Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach buddy pixel art animation
  • aol instant messenger beach icon
  • 5 frame contact sheet beach buddy
  • cartoon beach scene with sun clouds sailboats

Objects

  • yellow suns
  • white clouds
  • small sailboats
  • sparse vegetation
  • light brown sand
  • blue water
  • red-and-white striped towel
  • gray background strip

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x2
  • sampled frame count 5
  • source frame count 5
  • gray transparency background strip between frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character lying on towel in beach setting

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / beach buddy 1 buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • retro animation

Subjects

  • beach scene
  • cartoonish person lying on towel

Visible Text

  • Beach Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • yellow suns
  • white clouds
  • small sailboats
  • sparse vegetation
  • light brown sand
  • blue water
  • white wave patterns
  • red-and-white striped towel
  • cartoonish person
  • white hat
  • dark clothing
  • Beach Buddy text
  • pixel art animation
  • 5-frame contact sheet
  • gray background strip
  • consistent character pose
  • reduced side vegetation
  • simplified background frame
  • water splash effects
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