Pixel art animation of a yellow-clad character with white head firing projectiles and creating explosions, labeled Flame Buddy below each frame.

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Pixel art animation of a yellow-clad character with white head firing projectiles and creating explosions, labeled Flame Buddy below each frame.

Pixel art animation of a yellow-clad character with white head firing projectiles and creating explosions, labeled Flame Buddy below each frame. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Animation

  • character raises arms
  • projectile fires
  • explosion appears
  • character becomes silhouette
  • mound forms
  • character returns to firing position

Animation Summary

  • Character raises arms, fires projectile, creates explosion, becomes silhouette, forms mound, returns to firing position

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character
  • gray background

Dense Caption

The animation shows a yellow-shirted character with a white spherical head and black-and-white striped arms. In sequence: the character raises arms, fires a small orange projectile, then a large red-and-yellow explosion appears, followed by a black silhouette of the character, then a small black mound, and finally the character returns to firing position. The background is solid gray. Each frame has "Flame Buddy" text in white pixelated font below the character. The animation cycles through these distinct states: raised arms, projectile firing, explosion, silhouette, mound, and return to firing.

Description

Pixel art animation of a yellow-clad character with white head firing projectiles and creating explosions, labeled Flame Buddy below each frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Flame Buddy pixel art animation
  • yellow shirt white head explosion
  • character firing projectile explosion
  • Flame Buddy animation sequence
  • pixel art explosion character
  • yellow character white head animation
  • Flame Buddy explosion animation
  • character silhouette explosion animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm animation sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Flame Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Flame Buddy

Wordwall

  • yellow shirt
  • white head
  • black-and-white striped arms
  • orange projectile
  • red-and-yellow explosion
  • black silhouette
  • black mound
  • gray background
  • Flame Buddy text
  • pixel art animation

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
9260
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/19/1915491e0244bae2367175fdd9479a35b8af5cb909fd319d440254a3ef2c49a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Archive ID
1915491e0244bae2
SHA-256
1915491e0244bae2367175fdd9479a35b8af5cb909fd319d440254a3ef2c49a3
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 09:40 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022930

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.022930falseviolence/graphic0.002422falseillicit0.001499falseself-harm0.000459falsesexual0.000066falseillicit/violent0.000040falseharassment0.000021falseharassment/threatening0.000016falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falsehate0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095747

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914711onnx/unsafe0.095747onnx/nsfw0.055053onnx/nsfl0.040693
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art animation of a yellow-clad character with white head firing projectiles and creating explosions, labeled Flame Buddy below each frame.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:39 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,540 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 827

Review tags

  • becomes silhouette (action, 0.80)
  • creates explosion (action, 0.80)
  • fires projectile (action, 0.80)
  • forms mound (action, 0.80)
  • raises arms (action, 0.80)
  • returns to firing position (action, 0.80)
  • black silhouette (object, 0.80)
  • orange projectile (object, 0.80)
  • red and yellow explosion (object, 0.80)
  • black and white striped arms (subject, 0.80)
  • white spherical head (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow shirted character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raises arms
  • fires projectile
  • creates explosion
  • becomes silhouette
  • forms mound
  • returns to firing position

Animation

  • character raises arms
  • projectile fires
  • explosion appears
  • character becomes silhouette
  • mound forms
  • character returns to firing position

Animation Summary

  • Character raises arms, fires projectile, creates explosion, becomes silhouette, forms mound, returns to firing position

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • orange
  • red

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character
  • gray background

Dense Caption

The animation shows a yellow-shirted character with a white spherical head and black-and-white striped arms. In sequence: the character raises arms, fires a small orange projectile, then a large red-and-yellow explosion appears, followed by a black silhouette of the character, then a small black mound, and finally the character returns to firing position. The background is solid gray. Each frame has "Flame Buddy" text in white pixelated font below the character. The animation cycles through these distinct states: raised arms, projectile firing, explosion, silhouette, mound, and return to firing.

Description

Pixel art animation of a yellow-clad character with white head firing projectiles and creating explosions, labeled Flame Buddy below each frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Flame Buddy pixel art animation
  • yellow shirt white head explosion
  • character firing projectile explosion
  • Flame Buddy animation sequence
  • pixel art explosion character
  • yellow character white head animation
  • Flame Buddy explosion animation
  • character silhouette explosion animation

Objects

  • orange projectile
  • red-and-yellow explosion
  • black silhouette
  • black mound

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2002-2007 era, but pixels confirm animation sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • yellow-shirted character
  • white spherical head
  • black-and-white striped arms

Visible Text

  • Flame Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Flame Buddy

Wordwall

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  • white head
  • black-and-white striped arms
  • orange projectile
  • red-and-yellow explosion
  • black silhouette
  • black mound
  • gray background
  • Flame Buddy text
  • pixel art animation
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
9260
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal