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Animated contact sheet showing 9 frames of a pixel art buddy icon with a drowning theme, featuring a yellow stick figure and blue water effects on gray background.
Animated contact sheet showing 9 frames of a pixel art buddy icon with a drowning theme, featuring a yellow stick figure and blue water effects on gray background. Animated 96×96…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures
- Category
- badass buddy icons / drown 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
- 10.4 KB
- Motion
- Animated (9 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/4b/4b534b40c4ec6df230adad4b82f4d937791b2acfd48dd5c6cfc1e13cea4f3abf.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
- Archive ID
- 4b534b40c4ec6df2
- SHA-256
- 4b534b40c4ec6df230adad4b82f4d937791b2acfd48dd5c6cfc1e13cea4f3abf
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 22, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
- Run
- 89
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.091738
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 10, 2026 at 00:17 UTC
- Run
- 8
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Animated contact sheet showing 9 frames of a pixel art buddy icon with a drowning theme, featuring a yellow stick figure and blue water effects on gray background.
- Reviewed
- July 10, 2026 at 00:17 UTC
- Run
- 8
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 24,766 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,917, response 1,117
Review tags
- pixel art (style, 0.98)
- yellow stick figure (subject, 0.97)
- gray background (color, 0.96)
- drown buddy (subject, 0.95)
- pixelated text (text, 0.95)
- blue water effects (object, 0.94)
- drowning theme (mood, 0.93)
- water submersion (action, 0.92)
- 3x3 contact sheet (composition, 0.85)
- aol instant messenger (platform, 0.70)
Actions
- water splashing
- water rising
- character submerging
Animation
- water splashes appear right of figure
- water rises around legs
- character fully submerged in water
Animation Summary
9-frame sequence showing yellow stick figure character progressively submerged in blue water, starting from dry state with splashes to full submersion with ripple patterns
Colors
- yellow
- white
- blue
- gray
Composition
- 3x3 grid layout
- centered character in each frame
- text below character
Dense Caption
The image displays a 3x3 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small animation sequence showing a yellow stick-figure character labeled "Drown Buddy" in white text below it. The character has a round white head, yellow body, and outstretched arms. In the top row frames, blue water splashes appear to the right of the figure. Middle-row frames show increasing amounts of blue water rising around the character's legs. Bottom-row frames depict the character fully submerged in light-blue water with circular ripple patterns. The background is solid gray across all frames. Each frame has a small black-and-white circle icon in the top-left corner, likely representing the buddy status indicator. The animation progresses from dry figure to full submersion through sequential water effects and rising liquid levels. All text appears as pixelated white block letters with an underscore beneath "Buddy".
Description
Animated contact sheet showing 9 frames of a pixel art buddy icon with a drowning theme, featuring a yellow stick figure and blue water effects on gray background.
Identity Hypotheses
- Drown Buddy | basis both | 0.85 | visible text and water animation match name
- badass buddy icons | basis metadata-compatible | 0.7 | source hints align with visual theme but not confirmed by pixels alone
Metadata Supported By Image
- name "Drown Buddy" appears in pixelated white text below character
- water submersion theme matches visual content
Mood
- playful
- dramatic
- humorous
Named Entities
- Drown Buddy
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- drown buddy pixel art animation
- yellow stick figure water submersion icon
- aol instant messenger drown buddy gif
Objects
- blue water
- small circle status icon
- text label
Preprocessing Notes
- contact sheet contains 9 sampled frames from animation
- gray background is display context for transparency
- frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon drowning theme
- no nudity or explicit content visible
Source Metadata Interpretation
- wayback-badassbuddy-gifs source suggests 'badass buddy icons' category with 'drown buddy' name
- category label matches visible text but may be promotional framing
Style
- pixel art
- 8-bit animation
- low-resolution graphics
Subjects
- yellow stick figure character
- gray background
Visible Text
- Drown Buddy
- _
Visually Supported Entities
- drowning buddy icon concept
Wordwall
- yellow stick figure character
- white round head
- outstretched arms
- blue water splashes
- rising blue water
- light-blue submerged water
- circular ripple patterns
- gray background
- pixelated white text
- Drown Buddy label
- underscore under Buddy
- small circle status icon
- 3x3 contact sheet grid
- sequential animation frames
- water rising effect
- submerged character
- yellow body color
- white text block letters
- blue liquid effects
- solid gray backdrop
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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 / drown 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/Drown_Buddy_Buddy_Icon/?action=download