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A 4x3 contact sheet of a broken AIM buddy icon animation showing pixelated character frames with speech bubbles and an error symbol.
A 4x3 contact sheet of a broken AIM buddy icon animation showing pixelated character frames with speech bubbles and an error symbol. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…
A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures
- Category
- badass buddy icons / broken icon 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
- 14.9 KB
- Motion
- Animated (12 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/c5/c5306e23427a4fce750e3a15a30c24fedbc88939f3e656996461685dd5681d07.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
- Archive ID
- c5306e23427a4fce
- SHA-256
- c5306e23427a4fce750e3a15a30c24fedbc88939f3e656996461685dd5681d07
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.095363
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 9, 2026 at 22:52 UTC
- Run
- 6
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 4x3 contact sheet of a broken AIM buddy icon animation showing pixelated character frames with speech bubbles and an error symbol.
- Reviewed
- July 9, 2026 at 22:52 UTC
- Run
- 6
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 21,719 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,944, response 1,153
Review tags
- broken icon (subject, 0.95)
- red x symbol (symbol, 0.95)
- can you see text (text, 0.95)
- me now text (text, 0.95)
- 4x3 contact sheet (layout, 0.90)
- pixel art (style, 0.90)
- error symbol (symbol, 0.90)
- speech bubble (object, 0.85)
- blue shirt character (subject, 0.85)
- gray background (color, 0.80)
Actions
- speech bubble display
- text change between frames
Animation
- speech bubble appears in frame 2
- text changes from 'CAN YOU SEE' to 'ME, NOW?' between frames 2-3
- remaining frames static character without speech bubbles
Animation Summary
12-frame pixel art animation showing a static character with speech bubble text changing from 'CAN YOU SEE' to 'ME, NOW?' between frames 2-3 before returning to static state
Colors
- red
- white
- gray
- blue
- black
Composition
- 4x3 grid layout
- contact sheet arrangement
- frame-to-frame text variation
Dense Caption
The image displays a 4x3 grid contact sheet containing 12 sampled frames from an animated AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The top-left frame shows a white square border with a red X inside, labeled 'Broken Icon'. Below it are four rows of pixelated character icons: each has a simple round head with two black dot eyes and no mouth, wearing a blue shirt on a gray background. In the third column (frame 2), one icon displays a speech bubble reading 'CAN YOU SEE', while frame 3 shows 'ME, NOW?'. The remaining frames show static versions of the character without text bubbles. All icons have low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges typical of early internet graphics. The background is solid gray indicating transparency in the original icon. Source hints suggest this is a 'badass buddy' or 'broken icon' animation, but the image itself only confirms the broken state through visual elements like the red X symbol and missing text bubbles.
Description
- A 4x3 contact sheet of a broken AIM buddy icon animation showing pixelated character frames with speech bubbles and an error symbol.
Identity Hypotheses
- {"name":"Broken Icon Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"red X symbol and 'Broken Icon' label visible"}
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- 'badass buddy' name not supported by visible content
- 'badass buddy' style not confirmed by pixels
Metadata Only Entities
- badass buddy icons
Metadata Supported By Image
- broken icon label matches visual error state
- gray background indicates transparency
Mood
- neutral
- error state
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- broken icon animation
- red X error symbol
- CAN YOU SEE ME NOW speech bubble
- pixelated AIM buddy icon
Objects
- white square border
- gray background
Preprocessing Notes
- 4x3 contact sheet layout with 12 sampled animation frames
- gray background indicates transparency
- sourceFrameCount: 12
- sampledFrameCount: 12
- reviewImagePixels: 1024x768
Safety Notes
- no explicit content or nudity visible
Source Metadata Interpretation
- source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / broken icon buddy icon
Style
- pixel art
- low-resolution
- dithered edges
- blocky rendering
Subjects
- pixelated human figure
- red X symbol
Visible Text
- Broken Icon
- CAN YOU SEE
- ME, NOW?
Visually Supported Entities
- broken icon animation
Wordwall
- red X symbol
- white square border
- gray background
- pixelated character
- round head
- two black dot eyes
- blue shirt
- speech bubble
- CAN YOU SEE text
- ME, NOW? text
- broken icon label
- 4x3 contact sheet
- low-resolution pixel art
- dithering edges
- blocky rendering
- static character frames
- missing text bubbles
- error symbol
- gray transparency background
- pixelated animation frames
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures (wayback-badassbuddy-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
- Type
- Wayback historical portal crawl
- Category
- badass buddy icons / broken icon buddy icon
- Observed
- July 7, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons
Original: http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Broken_Icon_Buddy_Icon/?action=download