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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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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)
- 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
- 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
Enrichment records (1)
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
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures (wayback-badassbuddy-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
- Type
- Wayback historical portal crawl
- Category
- badass buddy icons / draw a buddy buddy icon
- Observed
- July 7, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons
Original: http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Draw_a_Buddy_Buddy_Icon/?action=download