Animated contact sheet showing a pixel art character struggling in water with repeated text "Can't Swim" across multiple frames.

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Animated contact sheet showing a pixel art character struggling in water with repeated text "Can't Swim" across multiple frames.

Animated contact sheet showing a pixel art character struggling in water with repeated text "Can't Swim" across multiple frames. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX…

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Animation

  • frame 0: small floating figure
  • frame 1: raised-arms panic pose
  • frame 2: hands-together prayer pose
  • frame 3: sinking silhouette
  • frames 4-9: progressively smaller character size

Animation Summary

10-frame pixel art animation showing a character's progressive distress in water, with repeated text "Can't Swim", moving from floating to panic poses to sinking silhouette across frames.

Composition

  • 4x3 contact sheet layout
  • horizontal frame sequence
  • text bar beneath character

Dense Caption

A 10-frame animated contact sheet displays a pixel-art character's struggle in the ocean. The background features blue water with white wave patterns and light-blue sky with scattered clouds. Four distinct animation states appear: small floating figure, raised-arms panic pose, hands-together prayer-like pose, and sinking silhouette. Each frame repeats the text "Can't Swim" in black pixelated font on a gray bar beneath the character. The animation shows progressive distress from left to right across frames 0-3, with later frames showing reduced character size as if sinking deeper into water. Pixel art style uses limited color palette of blue, white, and gray with visible dithering effects. Character has simple black-and-white facial features (eyes, mouth) on a rounded head shape. The contact sheet layout is 4x3 grid with the final frame cropped at bottom-right.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet showing a pixel art character struggling in water with repeated text "Can't Swim" across multiple frames.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"\"Badass Buddy\" series","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"source hint mentions \"badass buddy icons\" and visual style matches typical AIM buddy icon aesthetic"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category name "cant swim buddy icon" directly matches visible text and animation theme

Named Entities

  • "Can't Swim" character

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • can't swim pixel art buddy icon
  • ocean character animation can't swim text
  • badass buddy cant swim gif

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3 with sampled frame count 10
  • gray transparency background visible in cropped areas
  • sourceFrameCount indicates 10 total frames but only 10 shown here

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation of character struggling in water

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs source suggests "badass buddy icons" collection; category label "cant swim buddy icon" matches visual content

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • Can't Swim

Visually Supported Entities

  • pixel art ocean character
  • "Can't Swim" text-based animation

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • ocean water background
  • sky with clouds
  • "Can't Swim" text repeated
  • small floating figure
  • raised-arms panic pose
  • hands-together prayer pose
  • sinking silhouette
  • blue water waves
  • light-blue sky
  • white cloud patterns
  • gray bar text background
  • black pixelated font
  • progressive distress animation
  • limited color palette
  • dithering effects
  • rounded head shape
  • simple facial features
  • 4x3 contact sheet layout
  • frame-by-frame motion sequence

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / cant swim buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:32 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
22.6 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/26c33cbc9260fff55554132f92bda7daceec29cd2b5e00cb69977b604b3bc764.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
26c33cbc9260fff5
SHA-256
26c33cbc9260fff55554132f92bda7daceec29cd2b5e00cb69977b604b3bc764
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079404

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922520onnx/unsafe0.079404onnx/nsfw0.042404onnx/nsfl0.037000
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 23:52 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 showing a pixel art character struggling in water with repeated text "Can't Swim" across multiple frames.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 23:52 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
28,359 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,934, response 1,078

Review tags

  • 4x3 contact sheet layout (composition, 1.00)
  • can t swim text (text, 1.00)
  • progressive distress pose (action, 0.95)
  • gray text bar (object, 0.95)
  • pixel art ocean character (subject, 0.95)
  • blue water waves (object, 0.90)
  • 8 bit animation (style, 0.90)
  • light blue sky (background, 0.85)

Actions

  • floating
  • panicking
  • praying
  • sinking

Animation

  • frame 0: small floating figure
  • frame 1: raised-arms panic pose
  • frame 2: hands-together prayer pose
  • frame 3: sinking silhouette
  • frames 4-9: progressively smaller character size

Animation Summary

10-frame pixel art animation showing a character's progressive distress in water, with repeated text "Can't Swim", moving from floating to panic poses to sinking silhouette across frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • 4x3 contact sheet layout
  • horizontal frame sequence
  • text bar beneath character

Dense Caption

A 10-frame animated contact sheet displays a pixel-art character's struggle in the ocean. The background features blue water with white wave patterns and light-blue sky with scattered clouds. Four distinct animation states appear: small floating figure, raised-arms panic pose, hands-together prayer-like pose, and sinking silhouette. Each frame repeats the text "Can't Swim" in black pixelated font on a gray bar beneath the character. The animation shows progressive distress from left to right across frames 0-3, with later frames showing reduced character size as if sinking deeper into water. Pixel art style uses limited color palette of blue, white, and gray with visible dithering effects. Character has simple black-and-white facial features (eyes, mouth) on a rounded head shape. The contact sheet layout is 4x3 grid with the final frame cropped at bottom-right.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet showing a pixel art character struggling in water with repeated text "Can't Swim" across multiple frames.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"\"Badass Buddy\" series","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"source hint mentions \"badass buddy icons\" and visual style matches typical AIM buddy icon aesthetic"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category name "cant swim buddy icon" directly matches visible text and animation theme

Mood

  • anxious
  • desperate
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • "Can't Swim" character

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • can't swim pixel art buddy icon
  • ocean character animation can't swim text
  • badass buddy cant swim gif

Objects

  • text bar
  • clouds
  • water waves

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3 with sampled frame count 10
  • gray transparency background visible in cropped areas
  • sourceFrameCount indicates 10 total frames but only 10 shown here

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation of character struggling in water

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs source suggests "badass buddy icons" collection; category label "cant swim buddy icon" matches visual content

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • pixel art character
  • ocean water
  • sky with clouds

Visible Text

  • Can't Swim

Visually Supported Entities

  • pixel art ocean character
  • "Can't Swim" text-based animation

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • ocean water background
  • sky with clouds
  • "Can't Swim" text repeated
  • small floating figure
  • raised-arms panic pose
  • hands-together prayer pose
  • sinking silhouette
  • blue water waves
  • light-blue sky
  • white cloud patterns
  • gray bar text background
  • black pixelated font
  • progressive distress animation
  • limited color palette
  • dithering effects
  • rounded head shape
  • simple facial features
  • 4x3 contact sheet layout
  • frame-by-frame motion sequence
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