A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel-art animated icon showing a computer tech character interacting with equipment across 16 frames, featuring consistent gray background and blue/white color scheme.

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A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel-art animated icon showing a computer tech character interacting with equipment across 16 frames, featuring consistent gray background and blue/white color scheme.

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel-art animated icon showing a computer tech character interacting with equipment across 16 frames, featuring consistent gray background and blue/white…

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Animation

  • frame 0-3: hand moves from side to server tower
  • frame 4-7: blue particles appear near server
  • frame 8-11: small blue dot on monitor screen changes position
  • frame 12-15: monitor screen becomes solid blue

Animation Summary

A 16-frame pixel animation showing a computer tech character interacting with server tower and monitor, featuring hand movement (frames 0-3), blue particle effects (4-7), dot changes on screen (8-11), and solid blue screen (12-15).

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • centered character and equipment
  • consistent frame size within contact sheet

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of 16 sequential animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame shows a small pixelated character in blue clothing standing next to a computer monitor and server tower on a solid gray background. The character has white hair, a simple face with no visible expression details, and is positioned slightly left of center. In the first row (frames 0-3), the character's right hand moves from resting at their side to touching the server tower. Second row (4-7) shows continued interaction with subtle blue particle effects near the server. Third row (8-11) features a small blue dot on the monitor screen that changes position across frames. Fourth row (12-15) displays the monitor screen as solid blue in all frames. The character's pose remains consistent throughout, with only hand movements and minor visual effects changing between frames. All text visible is "Computer Tech" below each frame in white pixelated font. The animation uses a limited color palette of gray, black, white, and various shades of blue. Each icon cell measures 24x24 pixels within the larger contact sheet layout.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel-art animated icon showing a computer tech character interacting with equipment across 16 frames, featuring consistent gray background and blue/white color scheme.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"computer tech mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"consistent equipment and text label"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • badass buddy icons tag is unsupported by visible content; no explicit "badass" visual cues present

Metadata Supported By Image

  • computer tech label matches visible text and equipment props

Named Entities

  • {"name":"Computer Tech","basis":"visible","confidence":1.0}

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • computer tech pixel art animation
  • gray background buddy icon
  • blue server tower monitor animation
  • 16 frame contact sheet computer tech

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4
  • sampled frame count 16
  • source frame count 16
  • gray transparency background for all frames
  • review image size 1024x1024 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit technical cartoon with no nudity, gore, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | computer tech buddy icon category suggests technical theme but does not specify animation details or visual elements

Visible Text

  • Computer Tech

Visually Supported Entities

  • computer tech character
  • server tower iconography
  • monitor screen animation

Wordwall

  • pixel art computer tech character
  • gray background
  • blue server tower
  • computer monitor with screen
  • white text Computer Tech
  • character right hand movement
  • subtle blue particle effects
  • small blue dot on monitor screen
  • solid blue monitor screen
  • consistent pose across frames
  • 16-frame animation sequence
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • limited color palette
  • pixelated font style
  • gray transparency background
  • blue clothing character
  • white hair character
  • computer equipment props
  • frame-to-frame hand interaction
  • monitor screen changes

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / computer tech buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
16.4 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/0d/0d8c49e6ff2ba96edea0331b6cc55b443265591dbee7c285e4046ba0daffa5c2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
0d8c49e6ff2ba96e
SHA-256
0d8c49e6ff2ba96edea0331b6cc55b443265591dbee7c285e4046ba0daffa5c2
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 05:00 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093455

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.908408onnx/unsafe0.093455onnx/nsfw0.055925onnx/nsfl0.037530
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 23:58 UTC
Run
6
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.990000

OpenAI category scores

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

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel-art animated icon showing a computer tech character interacting with equipment across 16 frames, featuring consistent gray background and blue/white color scheme.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 23:58 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
32,883 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,942, response 1,254

Review tags

  • gray background (color scheme, 0.99)
  • white text label (text, 0.99)
  • 4x4 contact sheet (layout, 0.98)
  • blue character clothing (subject, 0.98)
  • computer equipment (subject, 0.98)
  • server tower interaction (action, 0.97)
  • animation sequence (medium, 0.97)
  • monitor screen changes (animation, 0.95)
  • pixel art (style, 0.95)

Actions

  • character right hand movement
  • particle effects appearing
  • monitor dot changing position
  • monitor screen turning solid blue

Animation

  • frame 0-3: hand moves from side to server tower
  • frame 4-7: blue particles appear near server
  • frame 8-11: small blue dot on monitor screen changes position
  • frame 12-15: monitor screen becomes solid blue

Animation Summary

A 16-frame pixel animation showing a computer tech character interacting with server tower and monitor, featuring hand movement (frames 0-3), blue particle effects (4-7), dot changes on screen (8-11), and solid blue screen (12-15).

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • light blue

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • centered character and equipment
  • consistent frame size within contact sheet

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of 16 sequential animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame shows a small pixelated character in blue clothing standing next to a computer monitor and server tower on a solid gray background. The character has white hair, a simple face with no visible expression details, and is positioned slightly left of center. In the first row (frames 0-3), the character's right hand moves from resting at their side to touching the server tower. Second row (4-7) shows continued interaction with subtle blue particle effects near the server. Third row (8-11) features a small blue dot on the monitor screen that changes position across frames. Fourth row (12-15) displays the monitor screen as solid blue in all frames. The character's pose remains consistent throughout, with only hand movements and minor visual effects changing between frames. All text visible is "Computer Tech" below each frame in white pixelated font. The animation uses a limited color palette of gray, black, white, and various shades of blue. Each icon cell measures 24x24 pixels within the larger contact sheet layout.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel-art animated icon showing a computer tech character interacting with equipment across 16 frames, featuring consistent gray background and blue/white color scheme.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"computer tech mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"consistent equipment and text label"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • badass buddy icons tag is unsupported by visible content; no explicit "badass" visual cues present

Metadata Supported By Image

  • computer tech label matches visible text and equipment props

Mood

  • neutral
  • technical
  • functional

Named Entities

  • {"name":"Computer Tech","basis":"visible","confidence":1.0}

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • computer tech pixel art animation
  • gray background buddy icon
  • blue server tower monitor animation
  • 16 frame contact sheet computer tech

Objects

  • server tower
  • computer monitor
  • text label Computer Tech

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4
  • sampled frame count 16
  • source frame count 16
  • gray transparency background for all frames
  • review image size 1024x1024 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit technical cartoon with no nudity, gore, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | computer tech buddy icon category suggests technical theme but does not specify animation details or visual elements

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • retro digital style

Subjects

  • computer tech character
  • server tower
  • computer monitor

Visible Text

  • Computer Tech

Visually Supported Entities

  • computer tech character
  • server tower iconography
  • monitor screen animation

Wordwall

  • pixel art computer tech character
  • gray background
  • blue server tower
  • computer monitor with screen
  • white text Computer Tech
  • character right hand movement
  • subtle blue particle effects
  • small blue dot on monitor screen
  • solid blue monitor screen
  • consistent pose across frames
  • 16-frame animation sequence
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • limited color palette
  • pixelated font style
  • gray transparency background
  • blue clothing character
  • white hair character
  • computer equipment props
  • frame-to-frame hand interaction
  • monitor screen changes
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