A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure with white head in various poses, most labeled "Broke" and one frame displaying text bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB...".

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A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure with white head in various poses, most labeled "Broke" and one frame displaying text bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB...".

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure with white head in various poses, most labeled "Broke" and one frame displaying text bubbles reading "I NEED…

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Animation

  • frame-to-frame arm pose variations
  • no significant movement beyond arm positioning

Animation Summary

15-frame animation showing a yellow stick figure with white head performing subtle arm pose variations across frames, most labeled "Broke", with one frame displaying speech bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB..."

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet grid
  • centered character placement

Dense Caption

The image is a 1024x1024 contact sheet containing 15 sampled animation frames arranged in a 4x4 grid (with the last row having three frames). Each frame features a pixelated stick figure character with a white circular head and yellow body. The character appears to be performing subtle pose variations across most frames, including arm positions that shift between crossed, raised, or lowered states while maintaining a consistent seated posture. Below each character in 14 of the 15 frames is the text "Broke" rendered in black pixelated font with an underline. In one frame (center-right), two white rectangular speech bubbles appear above the character's head containing the text "I NEED A JOB..." in all-caps black pixels. The background throughout is solid gray, indicating transparency for use as a buddy icon. The animation appears to be a simple loop of pose changes with no significant movement beyond arm positioning and facial expression shifts (the face shows minimal variation between frames).

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure with white head in various poses, most labeled "Broke" and one frame displaying text bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB...".

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"broke buddy icon","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"\"Broke\" text label and character design match source hint"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Broke" text label matches source hint
  • yellow stick figure character matches visual content

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • broke buddy icon pixel art
  • yellow stick figure broke animation
  • i need a job broke text bubble
  • broke underlined text animation
  • pixel art broke character animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • 15 sampled frames from animated icon
  • contact sheet layout 4x4 with last row having three frames
  • gray background indicates transparency for buddy icon use

Safety Notes

  • text references financial hardship but is not explicit or sexual

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Broke
  • I NEED A JOB...

Visually Supported Entities

  • broke buddy icon series

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white circular head
  • pixelated art style
  • gray background
  • "Broke" text label
  • underlined text
  • 15 sampled animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • seated posture
  • arm pose variations
  • speech bubble text bubbles
  • "I NEED A JOB..." text
  • all-caps text
  • black pixel font
  • yellow body color
  • white head color
  • gray background transparency
  • frame-to-frame arm movement
  • underlined "Broke" label
  • text-only frames
  • animation loop
  • pixel art buddy icon
  • seated character pose
  • speech bubble content

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / broke 1 buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
8.2 KB
Motion
Animated (15 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/1b/1bd22d44bcda191510c6398884a8368b3b5275c568dbcad50c06ce75ec36ec4e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
1bd22d44bcda1915
SHA-256
1bd22d44bcda191510c6398884a8368b3b5275c568dbcad50c06ce75ec36ec4e
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 04:58 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087265

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915671onnx/unsafe0.087265onnx/nsfw0.047104onnx/nsfl0.040161
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 22:52 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

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure with white head in various poses, most labeled "Broke" and one frame displaying text bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB...".

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 22:52 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
22,856 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,941, response 1,147

Review tags

  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.98)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.97)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.96)
  • broke buddy icon (subject, 0.95)
  • underlined text (text, 0.95)
  • speech bubble text (text, 0.94)
  • seated character pose (pose, 0.93)
  • arm pose variations (action, 0.92)
  • all caps text (text, 0.91)
  • broke animation loop (animation, 0.90)

Actions

  • arm position changes
  • seated posture

Animation

  • frame-to-frame arm pose variations
  • no significant movement beyond arm positioning

Animation Summary

15-frame animation showing a yellow stick figure with white head performing subtle arm pose variations across frames, most labeled "Broke", with one frame displaying speech bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB..."

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet grid
  • centered character placement

Dense Caption

The image is a 1024x1024 contact sheet containing 15 sampled animation frames arranged in a 4x4 grid (with the last row having three frames). Each frame features a pixelated stick figure character with a white circular head and yellow body. The character appears to be performing subtle pose variations across most frames, including arm positions that shift between crossed, raised, or lowered states while maintaining a consistent seated posture. Below each character in 14 of the 15 frames is the text "Broke" rendered in black pixelated font with an underline. In one frame (center-right), two white rectangular speech bubbles appear above the character's head containing the text "I NEED A JOB..." in all-caps black pixels. The background throughout is solid gray, indicating transparency for use as a buddy icon. The animation appears to be a simple loop of pose changes with no significant movement beyond arm positioning and facial expression shifts (the face shows minimal variation between frames).

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure with white head in various poses, most labeled "Broke" and one frame displaying text bubbles reading "I NEED A JOB...".

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"broke buddy icon","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"\"Broke\" text label and character design match source hint"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Broke" text label matches source hint
  • yellow stick figure character matches visual content

Mood

  • desperate
  • frustrated

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • broke buddy icon pixel art
  • yellow stick figure broke animation
  • i need a job broke text bubble
  • broke underlined text animation
  • pixel art broke character animation

Objects

  • speech bubbles

Preprocessing Notes

  • 15 sampled frames from animated icon
  • contact sheet layout 4x4 with last row having three frames
  • gray background indicates transparency for buddy icon use

Safety Notes

  • text references financial hardship but is not explicit or sexual

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure character with white head

Visible Text

  • Broke
  • I NEED A JOB...

Visually Supported Entities

  • broke buddy icon series

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white circular head
  • pixelated art style
  • gray background
  • "Broke" text label
  • underlined text
  • 15 sampled animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • seated posture
  • arm pose variations
  • speech bubble text bubbles
  • "I NEED A JOB..." text
  • all-caps text
  • black pixel font
  • yellow body color
  • white head color
  • gray background transparency
  • frame-to-frame arm movement
  • underlined "Broke" label
  • text-only frames
  • animation loop
  • pixel art buddy icon
  • seated character pose
  • speech bubble content
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)