Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing sequential bubble animation frames with consistent character design and text label.

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Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing sequential bubble animation frames with consistent character design and text label.

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing sequential bubble animation frames with consistent character design and text label. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Animation

  • bubble formation cycle
  • single bubble to multiple bubbles transition
  • frame-to-frame bubble position variation
  • bubbles appear/disappear between frames

Animation Summary

A 25-frame contact sheet showing sequential bubble formation cycles in a pixel art buddy icon, with bubbles appearing/disappearing between frames while the character remains stationary.

Composition

  • character centered horizontally above text
  • 5x5 grid layout of frames
  • consistent frame composition across sequence

Dense Caption

A 5x5 grid contact sheet displays 25 sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon sequence. Each frame features a small pixelated character in blue clothing against a gray background, positioned above the word "Bubble" in white text. The character has a simple stick-figure style with a light-colored head and body, wearing a solid blue shirt. Across the frames, visible bubble animations progress: some frames show no bubbles, others display single or multiple small light-blue circular bubbles near the character's right side (viewer's left), with subtle variations in bubble size, position, and presence across different sampled frames. The animation appears to cycle through states of bubble formation and disappearance without any other movement from the character itself. All frames maintain consistent composition with the character centered horizontally above the text label, using a limited color palette of blue, white, gray, and light-blue for bubbles. The image quality is low-resolution pixel art typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing sequential bubble animation frames with consistent character design and text label.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Bubble | basis visible | confidence high | evidence text label "Bubble" and bubble animation

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • buddy150 name not visually confirmed in any frame
  • no evidence for specific character identity beyond generic design

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy150

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text label "Bubble" matches the name suggested by source hints

Named Entities

  • Bubble

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art bubble buddy icon
  • AIM bubble animation contact sheet
  • blue shirt character bubble frames
  • buddy icon bubble formation cycle
  • 5x5 frame sequence bubble animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 25 sampled frames from source animation with total frame count of 29
  • gray background indicates transparency in original icon
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom chronologically

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-coolbuddy-gifs suggests historical archive context
  • alt: buddy150 implies possible name or identifier
  • category: icon / buddyicons / buddy150 indicates this is part of a larger collection of AIM buddy icons

Subjects

  • text label

Visible Text

  • Bubble

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • pixel art buddy icon
  • blue shirt character
  • gray background
  • white text Bubble
  • light blue bubble animation
  • single circular bubble
  • multiple small bubbles
  • bubble formation cycle
  • character standing still
  • text label below character
  • 5x5 contact sheet grid
  • sampled frame sequence
  • frame-to-frame bubble variation
  • consistent character design
  • small light-blue circles
  • pixelated graphics
  • early 2000s digital art style
  • buddy icon animation frames
  • gray transparency background
  • bubble motion cycle

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddy150
Category
icon / buddyicons / buddy150
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC

Wayback BadassBuddy IMG Buddy GIF Assets

Source title
badassbuddy_com-bubble
Category
buddies
Era
Mid-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:46 UTC

Prospect Wayback expansion coolbuddy.com

Source title
buddy150
Category
icon / buddyicons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 12:30 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.7 KB
Motion
Animated (29 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/3550c4e9d05456c445961d09f21ccd28be6f29334dc6d99c25f4ecc9262102d1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:05 UTC
Archive ID
3550c4e9d05456c4
SHA-256
3550c4e9d05456c445961d09f21ccd28be6f29334dc6d99c25f4ecc9262102d1
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 08:10 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091576

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921485onnx/unsafe0.091576onnx/nsfw0.057235onnx/nsfl0.034340
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

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

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing sequential bubble animation frames with consistent character design and text label.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
6,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,564, response 1,230

Review tags

  • gray background (background, 0.98)
  • 5x5 contact sheet (composition, 0.98)
  • bubble animation (subject, 0.98)
  • frame to frame variation (animation, 0.97)
  • pixel art buddy (subject, 0.97)
  • white text bubble (text, 0.97)
  • light blue bubbles (object, 0.96)
  • early 2000s digital art (style, 0.96)
  • blue shirt character (subject, 0.95)

Actions

  • bubble formation
  • bubble disappearance
  • frame-to-frame animation cycle

Animation

  • bubble formation cycle
  • single bubble to multiple bubbles transition
  • frame-to-frame bubble position variation
  • bubbles appear/disappear between frames

Animation Summary

A 25-frame contact sheet showing sequential bubble formation cycles in a pixel art buddy icon, with bubbles appearing/disappearing between frames while the character remains stationary.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • light blue

Composition

  • character centered horizontally above text
  • 5x5 grid layout of frames
  • consistent frame composition across sequence

Dense Caption

A 5x5 grid contact sheet displays 25 sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon sequence. Each frame features a small pixelated character in blue clothing against a gray background, positioned above the word "Bubble" in white text. The character has a simple stick-figure style with a light-colored head and body, wearing a solid blue shirt. Across the frames, visible bubble animations progress: some frames show no bubbles, others display single or multiple small light-blue circular bubbles near the character's right side (viewer's left), with subtle variations in bubble size, position, and presence across different sampled frames. The animation appears to cycle through states of bubble formation and disappearance without any other movement from the character itself. All frames maintain consistent composition with the character centered horizontally above the text label, using a limited color palette of blue, white, gray, and light-blue for bubbles. The image quality is low-resolution pixel art typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing sequential bubble animation frames with consistent character design and text label.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Bubble | basis visible | confidence high | evidence text label "Bubble" and bubble animation

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • buddy150 name not visually confirmed in any frame
  • no evidence for specific character identity beyond generic design

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy150

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text label "Bubble" matches the name suggested by source hints

Mood

  • playful
  • simple
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Bubble

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art bubble buddy icon
  • AIM bubble animation contact sheet
  • blue shirt character bubble frames
  • buddy icon bubble formation cycle
  • 5x5 frame sequence bubble animation

Objects

  • light blue circular bubbles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 25 sampled frames from source animation with total frame count of 29
  • gray background indicates transparency in original icon
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom chronologically

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-coolbuddy-gifs suggests historical archive context
  • alt: buddy150 implies possible name or identifier
  • category: icon / buddyicons / buddy150 indicates this is part of a larger collection of AIM buddy icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • early 2000s internet style

Subjects

  • pixelated character
  • text label

Visible Text

  • Bubble

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • pixel art buddy icon
  • blue shirt character
  • gray background
  • white text Bubble
  • light blue bubble animation
  • single circular bubble
  • multiple small bubbles
  • bubble formation cycle
  • character standing still
  • text label below character
  • 5x5 contact sheet grid
  • sampled frame sequence
  • frame-to-frame bubble variation
  • consistent character design
  • small light-blue circles
  • pixelated graphics
  • early 2000s digital art style
  • buddy icon animation frames
  • gray transparency background
  • bubble motion cycle
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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 / buddy150
Alt
buddy150
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 BadassBuddy IMG Buddy GIF Assets (wayback-badassbuddy-img-buddies-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mainstream Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
buddies
Alt
badassbuddy_com-bubble
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:46 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
BadassBuddy dedicated image host's native buddy-icon tree