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.

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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…

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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

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

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

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

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

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)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
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

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.022829falsesexual0.003054falseself-harm0.000485falseself-harm/intent0.000219falseharassment0.000053falseviolence/graphic0.000040falseillicit/violent0.000026falseillicit0.000024falsesexual/minors0.000020falseharassment/threatening0.000015falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falsehate0.000004falsehate/threatening0.000001false

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 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

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914669onnx/unsafe0.090190onnx/nsfw0.048790onnx/nsfl0.041400
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
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

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

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
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