A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a character surfing on binary code with varying motion effects across frames.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a character surfing on binary code with varying motion effects across frames.

A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a character surfing on binary code with varying motion effects across frames. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayba…

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Actions

  • motion blur effect

Animation

  • motion blur effects visible in frames 4-12
  • speed trails appear in multiple frames
  • character pose remains consistent with motion effects changing
  • binary code background alternates between solid gray and green patterned states

Animation Summary

12-frame animation showing character with green helmet riding yellow board on binary code background, transitioning from static pose to motion blur effects with speed trails in later frames

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • frame-by-frame sequence
  • character centered in each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a cartoon character wearing a green helmet and blue outfit, holding a red surfboard-like object while riding a yellow skateboard or hoverboard. The background alternates between solid gray (for the character's base position) and green binary code patterns (0s and 1s). In some frames, the character has visible motion blur effects with orange/yellow streaks indicating speed. The text "Cyber Surfer" appears below each frame in white pixelated font. The animation shows progression from a static pose to dynamic movement with motion trails. The icon uses limited color palette including blue, green, red, yellow, and gray. Pixel art style with visible dithering on the binary code background. Each frame is 96x96 pixels as part of the original animated icon set.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a character surfing on binary code with varying motion effects across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Cyber Surfer | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text label and binary code surfing theme

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Cyber Surfer" label matches visible text
  • binary code background supports "cyber" theme

Named Entities

  • Cyber Surfer

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyber surfer pixel art buddy icon
  • binary code surfing animation
  • aol instant messenger cyber surfer gif
  • 8-bit cyber surfer character
  • green helmet blue outfit red surfboard

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3
  • sampled frame count 12 from source frame count 12
  • gray transparency background for animation frames
  • review image size 1024x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon style
  • no nudity or explicit content
  • text is descriptive only

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / cyber surfer buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Cyber Surfer

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • green helmet
  • blue outfit
  • red surfboard-like object
  • yellow skateboard/hoverboard
  • binary code background
  • motion blur effects
  • orange/yellow speed trails
  • white pixelated text
  • Cyber Surfer label
  • 4x3 contact sheet
  • gray background
  • green binary digits
  • 0s and 1s pattern
  • static pose frame
  • dynamic movement frame
  • speed streaks
  • dithered background
  • limited color palette
  • 96x96 pixels
  • animation sequence
  • character surfing on code
  • motion trails in multiple frames

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / cyber surfer 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
15.8 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/e2/e218798645a5ccaffbb1a193edc0426a2e3deaaa5df82a6aabd478db942e7674.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
e218798645a5ccaf
SHA-256
e218798645a5ccaffbb1a193edc0426a2e3deaaa5df82a6aabd478db942e7674
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
0.091222

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924426onnx/unsafe0.091222onnx/nsfw0.052759onnx/nsfl0.038463
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 00:00 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

A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a character surfing on binary code with varying motion effects across frames.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 00:00 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
24,490 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,939, response 1,229

Review tags

  • blue outfit (character clothing, 0.95)
  • green helmet (character feature, 0.95)
  • 4x3 grid (layout, 0.95)
  • 96x96 pixels (size, 0.95)
  • pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • cyber surfer (subject, 0.95)
  • binary code (background, 0.90)
  • aol instant messenger (platform, 0.90)
  • red surfboard like object (prop, 0.90)
  • motion blur (animation effect, 0.85)
  • yellow skateboard (vehicle, 0.85)
  • speed trails (animation effect, 0.80)

Actions

  • surfing
  • riding
  • moving
  • speeding up
  • motion blur effect

Animation

  • motion blur effects visible in frames 4-12
  • speed trails appear in multiple frames
  • character pose remains consistent with motion effects changing
  • binary code background alternates between solid gray and green patterned states

Animation Summary

12-frame animation showing character with green helmet riding yellow board on binary code background, transitioning from static pose to motion blur effects with speed trails in later frames

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • orange

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • frame-by-frame sequence
  • character centered in each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a cartoon character wearing a green helmet and blue outfit, holding a red surfboard-like object while riding a yellow skateboard or hoverboard. The background alternates between solid gray (for the character's base position) and green binary code patterns (0s and 1s). In some frames, the character has visible motion blur effects with orange/yellow streaks indicating speed. The text "Cyber Surfer" appears below each frame in white pixelated font. The animation shows progression from a static pose to dynamic movement with motion trails. The icon uses limited color palette including blue, green, red, yellow, and gray. Pixel art style with visible dithering on the binary code background. Each frame is 96x96 pixels as part of the original animated icon set.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a character surfing on binary code with varying motion effects across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Cyber Surfer | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text label and binary code surfing theme

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Cyber Surfer" label matches visible text
  • binary code background supports "cyber" theme

Mood

  • playful
  • techy
  • retro

Named Entities

  • Cyber Surfer

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyber surfer pixel art buddy icon
  • binary code surfing animation
  • aol instant messenger cyber surfer gif
  • 8-bit cyber surfer character
  • green helmet blue outfit red surfboard

Objects

  • binary code background
  • gray background
  • white text label

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x3
  • sampled frame count 12 from source frame count 12
  • gray transparency background for animation frames
  • review image size 1024x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon style
  • no nudity or explicit content
  • text is descriptive only

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / cyber surfer buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • green helmet
  • blue outfit
  • red surfboard-like object
  • yellow skateboard/hoverboard

Visible Text

  • Cyber Surfer

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • green helmet
  • blue outfit
  • red surfboard-like object
  • yellow skateboard/hoverboard
  • binary code background
  • motion blur effects
  • orange/yellow speed trails
  • white pixelated text
  • Cyber Surfer label
  • 4x3 contact sheet
  • gray background
  • green binary digits
  • 0s and 1s pattern
  • static pose frame
  • dynamic movement frame
  • speed streaks
  • dithered background
  • limited color palette
  • 96x96 pixels
  • animation sequence
  • character surfing on code
  • motion trails in multiple frames
Raw JSON
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