A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring an orange-shirted character with white head, showing 12 distinct poses and actions across sampled frames on a light purple background.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring an orange-shirted character with white head, showing 12 distinct poses and actions across sampled frames on a light purple background.

A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring an orange-shirted character with white head, showing 12 distinct poses and actions across sampled frames on a light purple b…

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Actions

  • holding objects

Animation

  • frame 0: standing with arms at sides
  • frame 1: holding white object near chest
  • frame 2: similar to frame 1 but slightly different angle
  • frame 3: orange hand gesture with red accent
  • frame 4: sitting position
  • frame 5: crouching with hands on knees
  • frame 6: lying down with arms extended
  • frame 7: partial body view
  • frame 8: curled posture
  • frame 9: bent-over pose
  • frame 10: small white objects in hand
  • frame 11: lying down with red accent mark

Animation Summary

12-frame looped animation showing an orange-shirted character performing sequential body movements from standing to lying down with occasional object interactions.

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • uniform character size across frames
  • consistent background color

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of 12 animated frame samples from a single buddy icon. Each frame features a small pixelated character wearing an orange shirt with a white head, set against a solid light purple background. The character's poses and expressions change across frames: starting with a standing pose (frame 0), transitioning through sitting (frame 4), crouching (frame 6), lying down (frame 11), and various intermediate actions like holding objects or making gestures. Some frames show the character interacting with small white rectangular items, while one frame includes a red accent on an orange object. The animation appears to be a looped sequence of body movements without visible text in most frames except for repeated 'Retard' labels beneath each grid cell. Pixel art style uses limited colors (orange, white, light purple) with no anti-aliasing or transparency effects beyond the background. Each frame is 48x48 pixels as per source metadata, and all sampled frames maintain consistent character proportions but differ in posture and object interaction.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring an orange-shirted character with white head, showing 12 distinct poses and actions across sampled frames on a light purple background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: repeated 'Retard' text and pixel art style match historical AIM icon patterns

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible branding or specific character name beyond generic orange-shirted figure

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy124
  • q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY

Metadata Supported By Image

  • repeated 'Retard' text labels match historical AIM icon naming conventions
  • pixel art style consistent with early 2000s digital art

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aol im retard icon animation
  • pixel art orange character 12 frame loop
  • aim buddy icon with retard text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3
  • sampled frame count 12
  • source frame count 12
  • light purple background for transparency display
  • pixel dimensions 48x48 per source metadata

Safety Notes

  • visible 'Retard' text is offensive language requiring review

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'buddy124' or 'q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY' with possible connection to Wayback archive of AOL buddy icons

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • Retard

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon animation
  • early internet cartoon character

Wordwall

  • pixel art animation
  • orange shirt character
  • white head
  • light purple background
  • 12 distinct poses
  • standing pose
  • sitting pose
  • crouching pose
  • lying down pose
  • holding white objects
  • red accent on orange object
  • frame 0 standing
  • frame 4 sitting
  • frame 6 crouching
  • frame 11 lying down
  • 'Retard' text label
  • no anti-aliasing
  • limited color palette
  • character body movement
  • small rectangular items
  • looped animation sequence

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddy124
Category
icon / buddyicons / buddy124
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / q
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:49 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / q
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Action Category Portal

Source title
Action icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / action / page17 / action icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 21:29 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
15557
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:19 UTC

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddy124
Category
icon / buddyicons
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 09:10 UTC

Prospect Wayback expansion coolbuddy.com

Source title
buddy124
Category
icon / buddyicons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b007fa0b6228a93ae0c040f9d8c30091044a92291cb4eb04c8b04132d5b65e58.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Archive ID
b007fa0b6228a93a
SHA-256
b007fa0b6228a93ae0c040f9d8c30091044a92291cb4eb04c8b04132d5b65e58
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:21 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100688

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914938onnx/unsafe0.100688onnx/nsfw0.058701onnx/nsfl0.041987
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Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 12:24 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
questionable
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review1.000000truelegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
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A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring an orange-shirted character with white head, showing 12 distinct poses and actions across sampled frames on a light purple background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 12:24 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
13,292 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,015, response 1,256

Review tags

  • retard text (text, 0.95)
  • 12 distinct poses (animation, 0.90)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.90)
  • orange shirt character (subject, 0.90)
  • light purple background (color, 0.85)
  • red accent mark (color, 0.80)
  • small white objects (object, 0.75)

Actions

  • standing
  • sitting
  • crouching
  • lying down
  • holding objects
  • gesturing
  • interacting with items

Animation

  • frame 0: standing with arms at sides
  • frame 1: holding white object near chest
  • frame 2: similar to frame 1 but slightly different angle
  • frame 3: orange hand gesture with red accent
  • frame 4: sitting position
  • frame 5: crouching with hands on knees
  • frame 6: lying down with arms extended
  • frame 7: partial body view
  • frame 8: curled posture
  • frame 9: bent-over pose
  • frame 10: small white objects in hand
  • frame 11: lying down with red accent mark

Animation Summary

12-frame looped animation showing an orange-shirted character performing sequential body movements from standing to lying down with occasional object interactions.

Colors

  • light purple
  • orange
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • uniform character size across frames
  • consistent background color

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of 12 animated frame samples from a single buddy icon. Each frame features a small pixelated character wearing an orange shirt with a white head, set against a solid light purple background. The character's poses and expressions change across frames: starting with a standing pose (frame 0), transitioning through sitting (frame 4), crouching (frame 6), lying down (frame 11), and various intermediate actions like holding objects or making gestures. Some frames show the character interacting with small white rectangular items, while one frame includes a red accent on an orange object. The animation appears to be a looped sequence of body movements without visible text in most frames except for repeated 'Retard' labels beneath each grid cell. Pixel art style uses limited colors (orange, white, light purple) with no anti-aliasing or transparency effects beyond the background. Each frame is 48x48 pixels as per source metadata, and all sampled frames maintain consistent character proportions but differ in posture and object interaction.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring an orange-shirted character with white head, showing 12 distinct poses and actions across sampled frames on a light purple background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: repeated 'Retard' text and pixel art style match historical AIM icon patterns

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible branding or specific character name beyond generic orange-shirted figure

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy124
  • q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY

Metadata Supported By Image

  • repeated 'Retard' text labels match historical AIM icon naming conventions
  • pixel art style consistent with early 2000s digital art

Mood

  • playful
  • cartoonish

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aol im retard icon animation
  • pixel art orange character 12 frame loop
  • aim buddy icon with retard text

Objects

  • small white rectangular items
  • red accent mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3
  • sampled frame count 12
  • source frame count 12
  • light purple background for transparency display
  • pixel dimensions 48x48 per source metadata

Safety Notes

  • visible 'Retard' text is offensive language requiring review

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'buddy124' or 'q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY' with possible connection to Wayback archive of AOL buddy icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit style

Subjects

  • orange-shirted character
  • white head figure

Visible Text

  • Retard

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon animation
  • early internet cartoon character

Wordwall

  • pixel art animation
  • orange shirt character
  • white head
  • light purple background
  • 12 distinct poses
  • standing pose
  • sitting pose
  • crouching pose
  • lying down pose
  • holding white objects
  • red accent on orange object
  • frame 0 standing
  • frame 4 sitting
  • frame 6 crouching
  • frame 11 lying down
  • 'Retard' text label
  • no anti-aliasing
  • limited color palette
  • character body movement
  • small rectangular items
  • looped animation sequence
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Full source records (7)

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 / buddyicons / buddy124
Alt
buddy124
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / q
Alt
q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / q
Alt
q30cc953d3c-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Action Category Portal (wayback-buddy-icons-info-action-portal)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / action / page17 / action icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Action icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
Buddy Icon 551
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 21:29 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM icon portal, Action category, with user labels and submission attribution

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
15557
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:19 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture

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 / buddyicons
Alt
buddy124
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 09:10 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage