Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon featuring a red-shirted stick figure and cell phone graphics with "CellPhones Suck" text, arranged in 4x4 grid across 16 frames showing subtle animation changes.

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Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon featuring a red-shirted stick figure and cell phone graphics with "CellPhones Suck" text, arranged in 4x4 grid across 16 frames showing subtle animation changes.

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon featuring a red-shirted stick figure and cell phone graphics with "CellPhones Suck" text, arranged in 4x4 grid across 16 frames sh…

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Animation

  • subtle stick figure pose changes between frames
  • minor pixel variations on phone screen
  • frame 5 shows object held in hand
  • frame 10 has right-side pixel effects
  • frame 14 displays scattered dots

Animation Summary

16-frame animation showing subtle stick figure pose changes, minor pixel variations on cell phone screen, and scattered dot effects in later frames while maintaining consistent character design and text placement.

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • contact sheet arrangement
  • consistent character placement across frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 contact sheet containing 16 animated frames of a single AIM buddy icon. Each frame shows the same core elements: a small pixelated stick figure wearing a red shirt with white face and black eyes, positioned next to or holding a gray cell phone with green screen displaying abstract patterns. The text "CellPhones Suck" appears in bold black letters beneath each character instance. In some frames (e.g., frame 5), the stick figure holds a small object resembling a microphone or remote control. Frame 10 shows subtle pixelation effects around the figure's right side, while frame 14 displays scattered dots near the bottom of the icon area. The cell phone consistently features green screen patterns with red and green buttons below the display. All elements maintain consistent proportions across frames but show minor animation variations including slight pose adjustments in the stick figure's arms and subtle pixel changes on the phone screen. The background is solid gray, indicating transparency for AIM buddy icons. The entire composition uses a limited color palette of black, white, red, green, and gray with visible dithering effects typical of early digital art.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon featuring a red-shirted stick figure and cell phone graphics with "CellPhones Suck" text, arranged in 4x4 grid across 16 frames showing subtle animation changes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • "CellPhones Suck" character | basis both | confidence high | evidence text and visual style matches source hint about "cell phones suck"

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "CellPhones Suck" text matches source hint about "cell phones suck"
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM era (1990s-2000s)

Named Entities

  • CellPhones Suck

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cellphones suck pixel art buddy icon
  • red shirt stick figure cell phone animation
  • aim buddy icon 16 frame contact sheet

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout with 4x4 grid
  • 16 sampled animation frames visible
  • gray background indicates transparency for AIM icons
  • review image size 1024x1024 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon stick figure with critical message about cell phones

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / cell phones suck buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit style

Subjects

  • stick figure

Visible Text

  • CellPhones Suck

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon collection
  • early internet culture reference

Wordwall

  • red-shirted stick figure
  • white face stick figure
  • black eyes stick figure
  • gray cell phone icon
  • green screen cell phone
  • red buttons on cell phone
  • green screen patterns
  • "CellPhones Suck" text
  • bold black text
  • small microphone-like object
  • pixelated dot effects
  • dithering in background
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • 16-frame animation sequence
  • subtle pose changes
  • consistent color palette
  • gray transparency background
  • text beneath character
  • cell phone with green display
  • red shirt stick figure
  • black outline on figures
  • small red button
  • small green button

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / cell phones suck 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
15.1 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e178685f09a1c231963e8cfb8e8f6d2a0e583f6ace9446ed9343b92127f0e6d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
e178685f09a1c231
SHA-256
e178685f09a1c231963e8cfb8e8f6d2a0e583f6ace9446ed9343b92127f0e6d5
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104923

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.899110onnx/unsafe0.104923onnx/nsfw0.064848onnx/nsfl0.040075
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 23:53 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 of a pixel art buddy icon featuring a red-shirted stick figure and cell phone graphics with "CellPhones Suck" text, arranged in 4x4 grid across 16 frames showing subtle animation changes.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 23:53 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
29,360 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,948, response 1,288

Review tags

  • green screen (color, 0.95)
  • red shirt (color, 0.95)
  • 4x4 grid (composition, 0.95)
  • animation sequence (medium, 0.95)
  • cell phone (object, 0.95)
  • pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • cellphones suck text (text, 0.95)
  • microphone like object (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • holding microphone-like object
  • subtle pose changes between frames

Animation

  • subtle stick figure pose changes between frames
  • minor pixel variations on phone screen
  • frame 5 shows object held in hand
  • frame 10 has right-side pixel effects
  • frame 14 displays scattered dots

Animation Summary

16-frame animation showing subtle stick figure pose changes, minor pixel variations on cell phone screen, and scattered dot effects in later frames while maintaining consistent character design and text placement.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • contact sheet arrangement
  • consistent character placement across frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 contact sheet containing 16 animated frames of a single AIM buddy icon. Each frame shows the same core elements: a small pixelated stick figure wearing a red shirt with white face and black eyes, positioned next to or holding a gray cell phone with green screen displaying abstract patterns. The text "CellPhones Suck" appears in bold black letters beneath each character instance. In some frames (e.g., frame 5), the stick figure holds a small object resembling a microphone or remote control. Frame 10 shows subtle pixelation effects around the figure's right side, while frame 14 displays scattered dots near the bottom of the icon area. The cell phone consistently features green screen patterns with red and green buttons below the display. All elements maintain consistent proportions across frames but show minor animation variations including slight pose adjustments in the stick figure's arms and subtle pixel changes on the phone screen. The background is solid gray, indicating transparency for AIM buddy icons. The entire composition uses a limited color palette of black, white, red, green, and gray with visible dithering effects typical of early digital art.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon featuring a red-shirted stick figure and cell phone graphics with "CellPhones Suck" text, arranged in 4x4 grid across 16 frames showing subtle animation changes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • "CellPhones Suck" character | basis both | confidence high | evidence text and visual style matches source hint about "cell phones suck"

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "CellPhones Suck" text matches source hint about "cell phones suck"
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM era (1990s-2000s)

Mood

  • playful
  • critical (about cell phones)

Named Entities

  • CellPhones Suck

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cellphones suck pixel art buddy icon
  • red shirt stick figure cell phone animation
  • aim buddy icon 16 frame contact sheet

Objects

  • microphone-like object
  • cell phone with green screen

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout with 4x4 grid
  • 16 sampled animation frames visible
  • gray background indicates transparency for AIM icons
  • review image size 1024x1024 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon stick figure with critical message about cell phones

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / cell phones suck buddy icon

Style

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

Subjects

  • stick figure
  • cell phone icon

Visible Text

  • CellPhones Suck

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon collection
  • early internet culture reference

Wordwall

  • red-shirted stick figure
  • white face stick figure
  • black eyes stick figure
  • gray cell phone icon
  • green screen cell phone
  • red buttons on cell phone
  • green screen patterns
  • "CellPhones Suck" text
  • bold black text
  • small microphone-like object
  • pixelated dot effects
  • dithering in background
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • 16-frame animation sequence
  • subtle pose changes
  • consistent color palette
  • gray transparency background
  • text beneath character
  • cell phone with green display
  • red shirt stick figure
  • black outline on figures
  • small red button
  • small green button
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