Permanent icon record
Animated contact sheet of 12 pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure character with red accents and white eyes, paired with a gray stick figure character in various poses including hugging, shooting, and interacting with the yellow figure.
Animated contact sheet of 12 pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure character with red accents and white eyes, paired with a gray stick figure character in various poses i…
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures
- Category
- badass buddy icons / buddy shield 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
- 12 KB
- Motion
- Animated (12 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/28/28a27f224174b133904467072229cfd44a572201107f783894d8fdc504692d64.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
- Archive ID
- 28a27f224174b133
- SHA-256
- 28a27f224174b133904467072229cfd44a572201107f783894d8fdc504692d64
Content-safety assessments (3)
- Assessed
- July 21, 2026 at 09:12 UTC
- Run
- 72
- Input
- image+text
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
- Overall label
- not-flagged
- Overall score
- 0.022829
OpenAI category scores
Qwen scheduling evidence
Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.
- Assessed
- July 21, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
- Run
- 70
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.090190
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
- Run
- 6
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Animated contact sheet of 12 pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure character with red accents and white eyes, paired with a gray stick figure character in various poses including hugging, shooting, and interacting with the yellow figure.
- Reviewed
- July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
- Run
- 6
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 28,616 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,948, response 1,174
Review tags
- 8 bit animation (style, 0.95)
- buddy shield icon (subject, 0.95)
- yellow stick figure (subject, 0.90)
- pixelated text (text, 0.90)
- gray stick figure (subject, 0.85)
- hugging frames (action, 0.80)
- contact sheet frames (composition, 0.80)
- spark effect (object, 0.75)
Actions
- hugging
- shooting
- interacting
- holding object
- emitting spark
Animation
- hugging pose in multiple frames
- gray figure shooting with spark effect
- small yellow spark emission
- character position changes between frames
Animation Summary
12-frame animation showing yellow stick figure with red chest accents hugging gray stick figure who occasionally shoots small yellow sparks from hand; repeated "Buddy Shield" text below characters
Colors
- yellow
- red
- gray
- white
- black
Composition
- 4x3 grid layout
- centered characters
- text below figures
Dense Caption
The image displays a 4x3 grid of 12 animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features two primary characters: a yellow stick-figure-like character with white eyes and red accents (resembling a shield or chest plate) and a gray stick-figure-like character with white eyes. The yellow figure consistently appears in the foreground, while the gray figure varies in position and action across frames. In some frames, both figures hug each other; in others, the gray figure holds a small object resembling a gun or wand emitting a yellow spark. The background is solid light gray, indicating transparency for use as an icon. All frames include the text "Buddy Shield" below the characters in white pixelated font with black outlines. The animation shows subtle pose changes between frames including arm positions, character orientation, and small action effects like sparks from the gray figure's hand. The art style is retro 8-bit pixel art with limited color palette (yellow, red, gray, white) and blocky rendering typical of early internet graphics.
Description
Animated contact sheet of 12 pixel art frames showing a yellow stick figure character with red accents and white eyes, paired with a gray stick figure character in various poses including hugging, shooting, and interacting with the yellow figure.
Identity Hypotheses
- Buddy Shield | basis both | confidence high | evidence: text appears in all frames and consistent character design
Metadata Only Entities
- badass buddy icons
Metadata Supported By Image
- "Buddy Shield" text appears in all frames
- yellow and gray stick figure design matches "badass buddy" concept
Mood
- playful
- cartoonish
- nostalgic
Named Entities
- Buddy Shield
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- buddy shield pixel art icon
- yellow gray stick figure buddy icon
- 8-bit buddy shield animation
- buddy shield contact sheet frames
- pixelated buddy shield text
- hugging stick figures animation
Objects
- small yellow weapon-like object
- red chest accents
Preprocessing Notes
- contact sheet contains 12 sampled animation frames from source frame count of 12
- solid gray background indicates transparency for icon use
- frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon animation with no nudity or graphic content
Source Metadata Interpretation
- source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / buddy shield buddy icon
Style
- 8-bit pixel art
- retro digital graphics
- blocky rendering
Subjects
- yellow stick figure character
- gray stick figure character
Visible Text
- Buddy Shield
Visually Supported Entities
- buddy shield character design
Wordwall
- yellow stick figure
- red chest accents
- white eyes
- gray stick figure
- hugging pose
- shooting action
- spark effect
- Buddy Shield text
- pixelated font
- 4x3 contact sheet
- 12 frames
- transparent background
- 8-bit art style
- blocky rendering
- small yellow spark
- character interaction
- repeated text
- solid gray background
- frame-to-frame motion
- yellow weapon-like object
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 / buddy shield 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/Buddy_Shield_Buddy_Icon/?action=download