Animated contact sheet showing 20 frames of a buddy icon with stick figures and red brick patterns, some frames featuring yellow blocks or black-and-white checkered characters.

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Animated contact sheet showing 20 frames of a buddy icon with stick figures and red brick patterns, some frames featuring yellow blocks or black-and-white checkered characters.

Animated contact sheet showing 20 frames of a buddy icon with stick figures and red brick patterns, some frames featuring yellow blocks or black-and-white checkered characters. An…

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Animation

  • frame-to-frame pose changes of stick figure
  • transition from yellow stick figures to checkered characters
  • solid yellow block appearing in some frames

Animation Summary

20-frame animation showing yellow stick figures interacting with red bricks transitioning to checkered characters, with solid yellow block appearing in some frames

Composition

  • left character, right bricks layout
  • 5x4 grid arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x4 grid contact sheet containing 20 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a small character on the left side interacting with red brick wall patterns on the right. The top-left and middle sections show yellow stick figures with white circular heads holding orange objects, positioned next to red bricks with white mortar lines. Some frames include a large solid yellow block replacing part of the brick pattern. Later frames transition to black-and-white checkered characters with dark eyes and mouths, also interacting with red bricks that have small red diamond shapes near them. The background is gray transparency grid indicating alpha channel areas. Text below each frame reads "Play with C4" in a pixelated font. All frames maintain consistent layout but show subtle pose changes across the animation sequence. The icon uses limited color palette of yellow, white, black, red, and gray with blocky 8-bit style rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 20 frames of a buddy icon with stick figures and red brick patterns, some frames featuring yellow blocks or black-and-white checkered characters.

Identity Hypotheses

  • C4 character | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence "Play with C4" text and source hints

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hint mentions "wayback-coolbuddy-gifs" but no wayback-specific elements visible in frames
  • no explicit C4 logo or explosive imagery present beyond text

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddyico_c4 branding name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Play with C4" text matches the "C4" reference in source hints

Named Entities

  • C4 | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure brick animation
  • C4 play with text buddy icon
  • 8-bit checkered character bricks

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 20 sampled frames arranged 5 columns x 4 rows
  • gray transparency grid background indicates alpha channel areas
  • source frame count is 20 as confirmed by visible frames

Safety Notes

  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: buddyico_c4 suggests this is part of a C4-themed icon set
  • category: icon / buddyicons / buddyico c4 implies it's from an official AOL buddy icon collection
  • url: buddyico_c4 indicates possible branding or naming convention

Visible Text

  • Play with C4

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white circular head
  • orange object held
  • red brick wall
  • white mortar lines
  • gray transparency background
  • "Play with C4" text
  • 5x4 contact sheet grid
  • 20 animated frames
  • solid yellow block
  • black-and-white checkered character
  • dark eyes and mouth
  • small red diamond shapes
  • pixelated font
  • blocky 8-bit style
  • consistent layout
  • pose changes across frames
  • red mortar lines
  • gray alpha channel grid

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
buddyico_c4
Category
icon / buddyicons / buddyico c4
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:42 UTC

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Action Category Portal

Source title
Action icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / action / page16 / 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
15562
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:19 UTC

Prospect Wayback expansion coolbuddy.com

Source title
buddyico_c4
Category
icon / buddyicons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 13:38 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
10.8 KB
Motion
Animated (20 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7a3a7c9453cd3ea7aaf4e4654e6a961b0c32fe04d523b732d37d68ad8d24dc72.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:05 UTC
Archive ID
7a3a7c9453cd3ea7
SHA-256
7a3a7c9453cd3ea7aaf4e4654e6a961b0c32fe04d523b732d37d68ad8d24dc72
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Run
104
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101277

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912518onnx/unsafe0.101277onnx/nsfw0.059081onnx/nsfl0.042196
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Run
22
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 showing 20 frames of a buddy icon with stick figures and red brick patterns, some frames featuring yellow blocks or black-and-white checkered characters.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Run
22
Version
v3
Elapsed
12,369 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,228, response 1,187

Review tags

  • gray transparency grid (background, 1.00)
  • play with c4 text (text, 1.00)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • stick figure animation (subject, 0.95)
  • brick wall pattern (object, 0.90)
  • orange object held (object, 0.90)
  • checkered character (subject, 0.90)
  • contact sheet arrangement (composition, 0.85)
  • yellow block frame (object, 0.85)
  • red diamond shapes (symbol, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding orange object
  • interacting with brick wall
  • posing differently across frames

Animation

  • frame-to-frame pose changes of stick figure
  • transition from yellow stick figures to checkered characters
  • solid yellow block appearing in some frames

Animation Summary

20-frame animation showing yellow stick figures interacting with red bricks transitioning to checkered characters, with solid yellow block appearing in some frames

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • orange
  • red
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • left character, right bricks layout
  • 5x4 grid arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x4 grid contact sheet containing 20 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a small character on the left side interacting with red brick wall patterns on the right. The top-left and middle sections show yellow stick figures with white circular heads holding orange objects, positioned next to red bricks with white mortar lines. Some frames include a large solid yellow block replacing part of the brick pattern. Later frames transition to black-and-white checkered characters with dark eyes and mouths, also interacting with red bricks that have small red diamond shapes near them. The background is gray transparency grid indicating alpha channel areas. Text below each frame reads "Play with C4" in a pixelated font. All frames maintain consistent layout but show subtle pose changes across the animation sequence. The icon uses limited color palette of yellow, white, black, red, and gray with blocky 8-bit style rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 20 frames of a buddy icon with stick figures and red brick patterns, some frames featuring yellow blocks or black-and-white checkered characters.

Identity Hypotheses

  • C4 character | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence "Play with C4" text and source hints

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hint mentions "wayback-coolbuddy-gifs" but no wayback-specific elements visible in frames
  • no explicit C4 logo or explosive imagery present beyond text

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddyico_c4 branding name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Play with C4" text matches the "C4" reference in source hints

Mood

  • playful
  • simple
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • C4 | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure brick animation
  • C4 play with text buddy icon
  • 8-bit checkered character bricks

Objects

  • red brick wall
  • solid yellow block
  • small red diamond shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 20 sampled frames arranged 5 columns x 4 rows
  • gray transparency grid background indicates alpha channel areas
  • source frame count is 20 as confirmed by visible frames

Safety Notes

  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: buddyico_c4 suggests this is part of a C4-themed icon set
  • category: icon / buddyicons / buddyico c4 implies it's from an official AOL buddy icon collection
  • url: buddyico_c4 indicates possible branding or naming convention

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky rendering
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure
  • black-and-white checkered character

Visible Text

  • Play with C4

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white circular head
  • orange object held
  • red brick wall
  • white mortar lines
  • gray transparency background
  • "Play with C4" text
  • 5x4 contact sheet grid
  • 20 animated frames
  • solid yellow block
  • black-and-white checkered character
  • dark eyes and mouth
  • small red diamond shapes
  • pixelated font
  • blocky 8-bit style
  • consistent layout
  • pose changes across frames
  • red mortar lines
  • gray alpha channel grid
Raw JSON
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Full source records (4)

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 / buddyico c4
Alt
buddyico_c4
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 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 / page16 / action icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Action icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
C4 Buddy Icon
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
15562
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