Animated contact sheet of a pixelated character in various poses with text labels, showing frame-by-frame animation changes across 23 sampled frames.

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Animated contact sheet of a pixelated character in various poses with text labels, showing frame-by-frame animation changes across 23 sampled frames.

Animated contact sheet of a pixelated character in various poses with text labels, showing frame-by-frame animation changes across 23 sampled frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation

  • frame 0-4: standing still
  • frame 5: arms raised upward
  • frames 6-8: arms lowered to sides
  • frame 9: arms extended horizontally
  • frames 10-12: return to side positions
  • frame 13: character size reduced
  • frame 14: circular face with closed eyes
  • frames 15-22: bracket symbols replacing character

Animation Summary

23-frame animation sequence showing a pixelated character's pose changes from standing still to raised arms, horizontal arm extension, size reduction, closed eyes, and bracket symbols replacing the character in later frames.

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet grid layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • text below character

Dense Caption

A static contact sheet displays 23 animated frames arranged in a 5x5 grid (with the last row having three frames) against a gray background. Each frame features a small pixelated character wearing a blue shirt and white face with black eyes, positioned above text reading "Look at Me" in lowercase letters. The top-left corner shows a speech bubble containing the word "HELLO" in uppercase. The animation sequence progresses from left-to-right and top-to-bottom: frames 0-4 show the character standing still; frame 5 depicts arms raised upward; frames 6-8 show arms lowered to sides; frame 9 displays arms extended horizontally; frames 10-12 return to side positions; frame 13 shows a smaller version of the character; frame 14 is a circular face with closed eyes; and frames 15-22 feature white rectangular shapes containing black curved brackets. The image uses a limited color palette of blue, white, black, and gray pixels with no anti-aliasing or dithering visible in any frame.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixelated character in various poses with text labels, showing frame-by-frame animation changes across 23 sampled frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • buddy68 | basis both | confidence high | evidence character design matches historical AOL buddy icons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible "buddy68" branding or logo in image
  • category labels not confirmed by visual content

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy68

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "buddy68" name matches character-based buddy icon context

Named Entities

  • buddy68

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aol instant messenger buddy icon pixel art animation
  • buddy68 character blue shirt gray background
  • pixelated character look at me hello speech bubble
  • 23 frame contact sheet animation sequence

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5 (last row has three frames)
  • sampled frame count 23 from source frame count 23
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • static contact sheet of animated icon frames

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • text is non-explicit greetings

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: buddy68 | category: icon / buddyicons / buddy68 | url: buddy68

Visible Text

  • HELLO
  • Look at Me

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon style

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • blue shirt
  • white face
  • black eyes
  • gray background
  • "Look at Me" text
  • "HELLO" speech bubble
  • arms raised upward
  • arms extended horizontally
  • smaller character size
  • circular closed-eye face
  • bracket symbols
  • 5x5 contact sheet grid
  • 23 sampled frames
  • static animation sequence
  • lowercase "Look at Me" label
  • upper-case "HELLO" bubble
  • no anti-aliasing
  • pixel art style
  • gray transparency background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddy68
Category
icon / buddyicons / buddy68
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC

Wayback BadassBuddy Beta3 Image GIF Assets

Source title
badassbuddy_com-lookatme
Category
images / buddies
Era
Mid-2000s BadassBuddy Beta Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 17:05 UTC

Wayback BadassBuddy IMG Buddy GIF Assets

Source title
badassbuddy_com-lookatme
Category
buddies
Era
Mid-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:25 UTC

Prospect Wayback expansion coolbuddy.com

Source title
buddy68
Category
icon / buddyicons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 13:04 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (23 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34c3bf2c32b9e721375dab0605e945a95b855016248f46bf0b799040c4e5b2b8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:05 UTC
Archive ID
34c3bf2c32b9e721
SHA-256
34c3bf2c32b9e721375dab0605e945a95b855016248f46bf0b799040c4e5b2b8
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 08:07 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089697

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914742onnx/unsafe0.089697onnx/nsfw0.053181onnx/nsfl0.036516
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
21
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 a pixelated character in various poses with text labels, showing frame-by-frame animation changes across 23 sampled frames.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
8,956 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,557, response 1,295

Review tags

  • gray background (background, 0.95)
  • blue shirt (clothing, 0.95)
  • contact sheet grid (composition, 0.95)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.95)
  • hello speech bubble (text, 0.95)
  • look at me text (text, 0.95)
  • arms raised upward (action, 0.85)
  • bracket symbols (object, 0.85)
  • circular closed eye face (subject, 0.85)
  • smaller character size (subject, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing still
  • arms raised upward
  • arms extended horizontally
  • smaller size
  • closed eyes
  • bracket symbols appearing

Animation

  • frame 0-4: standing still
  • frame 5: arms raised upward
  • frames 6-8: arms lowered to sides
  • frame 9: arms extended horizontally
  • frames 10-12: return to side positions
  • frame 13: character size reduced
  • frame 14: circular face with closed eyes
  • frames 15-22: bracket symbols replacing character

Animation Summary

23-frame animation sequence showing a pixelated character's pose changes from standing still to raised arms, horizontal arm extension, size reduction, closed eyes, and bracket symbols replacing the character in later frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet grid layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • text below character

Dense Caption

A static contact sheet displays 23 animated frames arranged in a 5x5 grid (with the last row having three frames) against a gray background. Each frame features a small pixelated character wearing a blue shirt and white face with black eyes, positioned above text reading "Look at Me" in lowercase letters. The top-left corner shows a speech bubble containing the word "HELLO" in uppercase. The animation sequence progresses from left-to-right and top-to-bottom: frames 0-4 show the character standing still; frame 5 depicts arms raised upward; frames 6-8 show arms lowered to sides; frame 9 displays arms extended horizontally; frames 10-12 return to side positions; frame 13 shows a smaller version of the character; frame 14 is a circular face with closed eyes; and frames 15-22 feature white rectangular shapes containing black curved brackets. The image uses a limited color palette of blue, white, black, and gray pixels with no anti-aliasing or dithering visible in any frame.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixelated character in various poses with text labels, showing frame-by-frame animation changes across 23 sampled frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • buddy68 | basis both | confidence high | evidence character design matches historical AOL buddy icons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible "buddy68" branding or logo in image
  • category labels not confirmed by visual content

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy68

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "buddy68" name matches character-based buddy icon context

Mood

  • playful
  • minimalist
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • buddy68

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aol instant messenger buddy icon pixel art animation
  • buddy68 character blue shirt gray background
  • pixelated character look at me hello speech bubble
  • 23 frame contact sheet animation sequence

Objects

  • speech bubble
  • text label "Look at Me"

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5 (last row has three frames)
  • sampled frame count 23 from source frame count 23
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • static contact sheet of animated icon frames

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • text is non-explicit greetings

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: buddy68 | category: icon / buddyicons / buddy68 | url: buddy68

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • monochrome palette with blue accent

Subjects

  • pixelated character with blue shirt and white face

Visible Text

  • HELLO
  • Look at Me

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon style

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • blue shirt
  • white face
  • black eyes
  • gray background
  • "Look at Me" text
  • "HELLO" speech bubble
  • arms raised upward
  • arms extended horizontally
  • smaller character size
  • circular closed-eye face
  • bracket symbols
  • 5x5 contact sheet grid
  • 23 sampled frames
  • static animation sequence
  • lowercase "Look at Me" label
  • upper-case "HELLO" bubble
  • no anti-aliasing
  • pixel art style
  • gray transparency background
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Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / buddyicons / buddy68
Alt
buddy68
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
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Wayback BadassBuddy Beta3 Image GIF Assets (wayback-badassbuddy-beta3-images-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s BadassBuddy Beta Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
images / buddies
Alt
badassbuddy_com-lookatme
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
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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-lookatme
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
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