A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a patriotic-themed buddy icon with blue text over an American flag background, cycling through repeated phrases.

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A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a patriotic-themed buddy icon with blue text over an American flag background, cycling through repeated phrases.

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a patriotic-themed buddy icon with blue text over an American flag background, cycling through repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Animation

  • subtle positional shifts between frames creating flicker effect

Animation Summary

  • 4-frame animation with identical text content cycling through minor positional shifts creating a flicker effect

Composition

  • centered text over flag pattern, 4-frame contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4-frame animated contact sheet (arranged 2x2) of a tiny AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features bold blue pixelated text reading "American Baby And proud to be" set against a faded red-and-white striped American flag background with scattered white stars. The animation cycles through identical frames, creating a subtle flicker effect where the text appears slightly offset or shifted between frames due to compression artifacts and low-resolution rendering. The icon uses a 48x48 pixel format with visible dithering in the flag background and anti-aliased edges on the blue text characters. Each frame contains exactly four lines of text: "American" (top), "Baby" (second line), "And" (third line), "proud to be" (bottom). The animation is static but creates a flickering effect through minor positional shifts between frames, likely due to GIF compression artifacts rather than intentional motion. The background consists of horizontal red stripes with white stars scattered across the flag pattern, rendered in low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a patriotic-themed buddy icon with blue text over an American flag background, cycling through repeated phrases.

Metadata Supported By Image

  • buddy icon format
  • text-based design
  • patriotic theme

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • american baby and proud to be flag icon
  • blue pixelated text flag background
  • 48x48 animated buddy icon american flag
  • patriotic text animation 1990s aol im
  • low resolution blue text red white stripes

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet with 2x2 grid of sampled frames; gray transparency background visible around icon edges; sourceFrameCount 4; sampledFrameCount 4; sampledFrameIndices [0,1,2,3]

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit patriotic-themed cartoon text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: buddy_icon_1211 | category: icon / iconupload / buddypics / buddy icon 1211

Subjects

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • American
  • Baby
  • And
  • proud
  • to
  • be

Visually Supported Entities

  • American flag motif

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • red and white striped background
  • faded American flag
  • scattered white stars
  • 48x48 pixel icon
  • text reads American Baby And proud to be
  • repeated phrase across frames
  • low-resolution rendering
  • dithering in flag background
  • anti-aliased blue text edges
  • horizontal red stripes
  • white star pattern
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • flickering animation effect
  • four-line text layout
  • top line American
  • second line Baby
  • third line And
  • bottom line proud to be
  • static frame sequence with minor shifts

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddy_icon_1211
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / buddy icon 1211
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66b49e6539d1008d8ed3f9c0c8e8fc85481c57e0852a8adce8050915a0246cdf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
66b49e6539d1008d
SHA-256
66b49e6539d1008d8ed3f9c0c8e8fc85481c57e0852a8adce8050915a0246cdf
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 08:08 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000054

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000054falseharassment0.000049falsehate0.000032falsesexual/minors0.000009falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000003falseillicit0.000003falseself-harm0.000003falseviolence0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 17:35 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.780982

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/unsafe0.780982onnx/nsfw0.740264onnx/sfw0.479300onnx/nsfl0.040718
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
27
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

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

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a patriotic-themed buddy icon with blue text over an American flag background, cycling through repeated phrases.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
13,630 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,939, response 1,102

Review tags

  • 48x48 pixel icon (size, 1.00)
  • text based icon (subject, 1.00)
  • retro digital graphics (style, 0.98)
  • blue pixelated text (text, 0.98)
  • flickering effect (animation, 0.95)
  • red and white stripes (background, 0.95)
  • scattered white stars (background, 0.95)
  • american flag motif (subject, 0.95)
  • patriotic animation (animation, 0.92)

Actions

  • flickering animation effect

Animation

  • subtle positional shifts between frames creating flicker effect

Animation Summary

  • 4-frame animation with identical text content cycling through minor positional shifts creating a flicker effect

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered text over flag pattern, 4-frame contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4-frame animated contact sheet (arranged 2x2) of a tiny AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features bold blue pixelated text reading "American Baby And proud to be" set against a faded red-and-white striped American flag background with scattered white stars. The animation cycles through identical frames, creating a subtle flicker effect where the text appears slightly offset or shifted between frames due to compression artifacts and low-resolution rendering. The icon uses a 48x48 pixel format with visible dithering in the flag background and anti-aliased edges on the blue text characters. Each frame contains exactly four lines of text: "American" (top), "Baby" (second line), "And" (third line), "proud to be" (bottom). The animation is static but creates a flickering effect through minor positional shifts between frames, likely due to GIF compression artifacts rather than intentional motion. The background consists of horizontal red stripes with white stars scattered across the flag pattern, rendered in low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a patriotic-themed buddy icon with blue text over an American flag background, cycling through repeated phrases.

Metadata Supported By Image

  • buddy icon format
  • text-based design
  • patriotic theme

Mood

  • patriotic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • american baby and proud to be flag icon
  • blue pixelated text flag background
  • 48x48 animated buddy icon american flag
  • patriotic text animation 1990s aol im
  • low resolution blue text red white stripes

Objects

  • red and white stripes
  • white stars

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet with 2x2 grid of sampled frames; gray transparency background visible around icon edges; sourceFrameCount 4; sampledFrameCount 4; sampledFrameIndices [0,1,2,3]

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit patriotic-themed cartoon text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: buddy_icon_1211 | category: icon / iconupload / buddypics / buddy icon 1211

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital graphics

Subjects

  • text-based icon
  • flag background

Visible Text

  • American
  • Baby
  • And
  • proud
  • to
  • be

Visually Supported Entities

  • American flag motif

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • red and white striped background
  • faded American flag
  • scattered white stars
  • 48x48 pixel icon
  • text reads American Baby And proud to be
  • repeated phrase across frames
  • low-resolution rendering
  • dithering in flag background
  • anti-aliased blue text edges
  • horizontal red stripes
  • white star pattern
  • pixelated compression artifacts
  • flickering animation effect
  • four-line text layout
  • top line American
  • second line Baby
  • third line And
  • bottom line proud to be
  • static frame sequence with minor shifts
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)

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 / iconupload / buddypics / buddy icon 1211
Alt
buddy_icon_1211
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage