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A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon featuring yellow text "I Need A Hug" on a black background with white horizontal lines, displayed as a contact sheet of six identical frames.
A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon featuring yellow text "I Need A Hug" on a black background with white horizontal lines, displayed as a contact sheet of six identical frames. Ani…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures
- Source title
- buddy_icon_4680
- Category
- icon / iconupload / buddypics / buddy icon 4680
- Era
- Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 762 bytes
- Motion
- Animated (6 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/28/281eeda75b23331c0528589e7fe63d814596fd21baeeb829197e203554926b54.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
- Archive ID
- 281eeda75b23331c
- SHA-256
- 281eeda75b23331c0528589e7fe63d814596fd21baeeb829197e203554926b54
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 22, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
- Run
- 89
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.080234
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 11, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
- Run
- 27
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon featuring yellow text "I Need A Hug" on a black background with white horizontal lines, displayed as a contact sheet of six identical frames.
- Reviewed
- July 11, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
- Run
- 27
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 10,077 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,999, response 1,020
Review tags
- yellow text on black (color, 0.95)
- text based buddy icon (subject, 0.95)
- static animation (animation, 0.90)
- buddy icon 4680 (entity, 0.90)
- pixel art style (medium, 0.90)
- vertical text layout (composition, 0.85)
- aol instant messenger (platform, 0.85)
- retro digital art (style, 0.80)
Animation
- no visible frame-to-frame changes; all six sampled frames identical
Animation Summary
Six identical frames showing static yellow text "I Need A Hug" on black background with white separators; no animation changes observed between sampled frames
Colors
- black
- white
- yellow
Composition
- vertical text layout with white separators on solid background
Dense Caption
The image shows a static animation frame sequence for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The icon consists of bold yellow text reading "I Need A Hug" arranged vertically across three lines: "I" at the top, "Need" in the middle, and "A Hug" at the bottom. Each line is separated by thin white horizontal lines on a solid black background. The text uses a pixelated font with slight anti-aliasing visible around letter edges. There are no characters or additional visual elements beyond the text and lines; the icon has transparent pixels outside its 48x48 boundary as indicated by the gray grid in the contact sheet. All six sampled frames (arranged in a 3x2 contact sheet) show identical content with no visible animation changes between them, suggesting either a static image or an unchanging looped animation. The overall style is minimalist and retro digital art typical of early internet communication interfaces.
Description
A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon featuring yellow text "I Need A Hug" on a black background with white horizontal lines, displayed as a contact sheet of six identical frames.
Identity Hypotheses
- I Need A Hug | basis metadata-compatible | confidence 0.7 | evidence text content matches name suggestion
Metadata Only Entities
- buddy_icon_4680
Metadata Supported By Image
- buddy icon format
- text-based design
- pixel art style
Mood
- friendly
Named Entities
- I Need A Hug
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- yellow text I Need A Hug buddy icon
- 48x48 pixel instant messenger icon
- black background white lines yellow text
Preprocessing Notes
- contact sheet 3x2 arrangement, 6 sampled frames from source animation, gray transparency grid background for contact sheet rendering
Safety Notes
- text is friendly and non-explicit, contains no sexual or violent references
Source Metadata Interpretation
source hints indicate 'buddy_icon_4680' and 'icon / iconupload / buddypics', suggesting this is a user-uploaded buddy icon from the early internet era
Style
- pixel art
- retro digital
- minimalist text-based
Visible Text
- I
- Need
- A
- Hug
Wordwall
- yellow text I Need A Hug
- black background
- white horizontal lines
- pixelated font
- vertical text layout
- 48x48 pixel icon
- transparent pixels outside boundary
- no characters or props
- static frame sequence
- contact sheet 3x2 arrangement
- text arranged in three lines
- thin white separators
- retro digital art style
- minimalist design
- AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon
- yellow on black contrast
- pixelated letter edges
- solid black background
Raw JSON
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}Source semantic tags (6)
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 4680
- Alt
- buddy_icon_4680
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage
Original: http://www.coolbuddy.com/icon/iconupload/buddypics/buddy_icon_4680.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20161019183129id_/http://www.coolbuddy.com/icon/iconupload/buddypics/buddy_icon_4680.gif