Animated contact sheet of 25 pixel art frames showing a character drawing itself with various tools and poses, including pencil, brush, guitar, and speech bubble text.

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Animated contact sheet of 25 pixel art frames showing a character drawing itself with various tools and poses, including pencil, brush, guitar, and speech bubble text.

Animated contact sheet of 25 pixel art frames showing a character drawing itself with various tools and poses, including pencil, brush, guitar, and speech bubble text. Animated 96…

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Animation

  • pencil tool motion blur
  • brush stroke effect
  • guitar playing pose
  • speech bubble text appearing
  • red shirt color change between frames

Animation Summary

25-frame animation sequence showing character switching between pencil, brush, guitar tools while maintaining consistent white stick figure design; includes motion blur effects on moving objects and speech bubble text appearing in final frames

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet layout
  • individual frames on gray background
  • character centered in each frame

Dense Caption

A 5x5 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon sequence. Each cell contains a small pixel-art animation frame on a gray background with 'Draw a Buddy' text below it. The central character is a simple white stick figure with black outline that changes poses and tools across frames: holding pencil (top row), drawing brush (middle rows), playing guitar (right column), wearing red shirt (lower half), and displaying speech bubble text ('HIYA!'). Frames show sequential animation of the character's actions including tool switching, pose adjustments, and expression changes. The animation uses limited color palette with white, black, gray, and red. Some frames have motion blur effects on tools indicating movement. Character maintains consistent round head shape throughout but varies in body position and prop usage across sampled frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet of 25 pixel art frames showing a character drawing itself with various tools and poses, including pencil, brush, guitar, and speech bubble text.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"Badass Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"character design matches 'badass' concept with drawing tools and action poses"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'Draw a Buddy' text visible below each frame
  • character design matches 'badass buddy' concept with drawing tools and action poses

Named Entities

  • Draw a Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • draw a buddy pixel art animation
  • white stick figure red shirt animation
  • pencil brush guitar tool switch animation
  • hiya speech bubble mascot icon

Objects

  • guitar

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 25 sampled animation frames from source with total 33 frames
  • gray background indicates transparency rendering context
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom in grid layout

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character with drawing tools, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / draw a buddy buddy icon

Visible Text

  • Draw a Buddy
  • HIYA!

Visually Supported Entities

  • draw a buddy mascot series

Wordwall

  • white stick figure
  • black outline
  • red shirt
  • pencil tool
  • brush tool
  • guitar tool
  • speech bubble text
  • HIYA!
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • animation sequence
  • tool switching
  • pose changes
  • motion blur effect
  • limited color palette
  • round head shape
  • drawing action
  • character expression change
  • frame-to-frame motion
  • simple mascot design

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / draw a buddy buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
21.4 KB
Motion
Animated (33 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a294f4bb4ee4e9283c7177af3325aabbee0197faf0d11eb5084bc3db3452b6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
6a294f4bb4ee4e92
SHA-256
6a294f4bb4ee4e9283c7177af3325aabbee0197faf0d11eb5084bc3db3452b6e
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 18:17 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097102

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910252onnx/unsafe0.097102onnx/nsfw0.055755onnx/nsfl0.041348
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Run
7
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

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

Animated contact sheet of 25 pixel art frames showing a character drawing itself with various tools and poses, including pencil, brush, guitar, and speech bubble text.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Run
7
Version
v3
Elapsed
23,228 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,546, response 1,114

Review tags

  • pixel art (style, 0.98)
  • gray background (composition, 0.97)
  • 5x5 contact sheet (layout, 0.97)
  • drawing tools (object, 0.95)
  • stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • animation sequence (medium, 0.92)
  • speech bubble text (text, 0.92)
  • tool switching (action, 0.88)
  • red shirt (color, 0.85)
  • motion blur effect (rendering, 0.82)

Actions

  • holding pencil
  • drawing with brush
  • playing guitar
  • displaying speech bubble
  • changing poses
  • switching tools

Animation

  • pencil tool motion blur
  • brush stroke effect
  • guitar playing pose
  • speech bubble text appearing
  • red shirt color change between frames

Animation Summary

25-frame animation sequence showing character switching between pencil, brush, guitar tools while maintaining consistent white stick figure design; includes motion blur effects on moving objects and speech bubble text appearing in final frames

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • red

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet layout
  • individual frames on gray background
  • character centered in each frame

Dense Caption

A 5x5 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon sequence. Each cell contains a small pixel-art animation frame on a gray background with 'Draw a Buddy' text below it. The central character is a simple white stick figure with black outline that changes poses and tools across frames: holding pencil (top row), drawing brush (middle rows), playing guitar (right column), wearing red shirt (lower half), and displaying speech bubble text ('HIYA!'). Frames show sequential animation of the character's actions including tool switching, pose adjustments, and expression changes. The animation uses limited color palette with white, black, gray, and red. Some frames have motion blur effects on tools indicating movement. Character maintains consistent round head shape throughout but varies in body position and prop usage across sampled frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet of 25 pixel art frames showing a character drawing itself with various tools and poses, including pencil, brush, guitar, and speech bubble text.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"Badass Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"character design matches 'badass' concept with drawing tools and action poses"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'Draw a Buddy' text visible below each frame
  • character design matches 'badass buddy' concept with drawing tools and action poses

Mood

  • playful
  • cartoonish
  • interactive

Named Entities

  • Draw a Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • draw a buddy pixel art animation
  • white stick figure red shirt animation
  • pencil brush guitar tool switch animation
  • hiya speech bubble mascot icon

Objects

  • pencil tool
  • brush tool
  • guitar
  • speech bubble text box

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 25 sampled animation frames from source with total 33 frames
  • gray background indicates transparency rendering context
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom in grid layout

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character with drawing tools, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / draw a buddy buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • simple mascot design

Subjects

  • white stick figure character

Visible Text

  • Draw a Buddy
  • HIYA!

Visually Supported Entities

  • draw a buddy mascot series

Wordwall

  • white stick figure
  • black outline
  • red shirt
  • pencil tool
  • brush tool
  • guitar tool
  • speech bubble text
  • HIYA!
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • animation sequence
  • tool switching
  • pose changes
  • motion blur effect
  • limited color palette
  • round head shape
  • drawing action
  • character expression change
  • frame-to-frame motion
  • simple mascot design
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