A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixelated yellow duck animation showing sequential frames with changing text in speech bubbles above the duck.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixelated yellow duck animation showing sequential frames with changing text in speech bubbles above the duck.

A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixelated yellow duck animation showing sequential frames with changing text in speech bubbles above the duck. Animated 47×47 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayb…

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Animation

  • letter highlighting sequence
  • frame-to-frame text variation

Animation Summary

12-frame contact sheet showing sequential highlighting of each letter in "Quack" within speech bubbles above a consistent pixelated yellow duck figure, creating a blinking text effect across frames.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text above figure
  • 4x3 grid layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small pixelated yellow duck standing on orange feet against a gray background, positioned below a black-outlined speech bubble containing the word "Quack". The text within each speech bubble varies across frames: some letters are solid black while others appear in light yellow, creating a blinking or highlighting effect where different characters (Q, u, a, c, k) become highlighted sequentially. The duck's pose remains consistent across all frames with its head slightly tilted and beak open as if vocalizing. Each frame shows the same basic composition: gray background, black speech bubble outline, yellow duck figure, and text in varying highlight states. The animation appears to cycle through highlighting each letter of "Quack" in sequence. The image is a contact sheet showing all 12 sampled frames from what was likely an animated icon with multiple source frames.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixelated yellow duck animation showing sequential frames with changing text in speech bubbles above the duck.

Identity Hypotheses

  • duckblinkie | basis both | confidence high | evidence: yellow duck mascot with text-based animation matching name description

Metadata Only Entities

  • duckblinkie

Metadata Supported By Image

  • duck mascot figure
  • text-based animation
  • letter highlighting effect

Named Entities

  • duckblinkie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow duck quack speech bubble animation
  • pixel art buddy icon letter highlighting
  • duckblinkie animated text effect

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 12 sampled frames (4x3 layout)
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • source frame count: 12
  • review image pixels: 1024x768

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon mascot with playful text animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: duckblinkie | category: icon / contest / imgs / duckblinkie | url: duckblinkie

Visible Text

  • Quack

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated duck
  • orange feet
  • gray background
  • black speech bubble outline
  • speech bubble text
  • Quack word
  • letter highlighting animation
  • sequential frame display
  • 4x3 grid layout
  • solid black text
  • light yellow text
  • duck head tilt
  • beak open expression
  • text blinking effect
  • frame-to-frame variation
  • pixel art style
  • small mascot figure
  • text-based animation
  • highlighted letter sequence
  • gray transparency background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
duckblinkie
Category
icon / contest / imgs / duckblinkie
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
47×47 pixels
File size
835 bytes
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/c3/c38a6895345aad47a27014274ddb09c982f87d0cbfd6ad455c5b7f76f3135ad1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
c38a6895345aad47
SHA-256
c38a6895345aad47a27014274ddb09c982f87d0cbfd6ad455c5b7f76f3135ad1
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078134

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927348onnx/unsafe0.078134onnx/nsfw0.042368onnx/nsfl0.035766
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 18:49 UTC
Run
26
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 pixelated yellow duck animation showing sequential frames with changing text in speech bubbles above the duck.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 18:49 UTC
Run
26
Version
v3
Elapsed
12,767 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,954, response 1,044

Review tags

  • letter highlighting animation (animation, 0.95)
  • orange feet (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow duck mascot (subject, 0.95)
  • quack speech bubble (text, 0.95)
  • text based animation (animation, 0.90)
  • gray transparency background (background, 0.90)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • beak open expression (subject, 0.90)
  • 4x3 contact sheet (composition, 0.85)

Actions

  • quacking (implied by text)
  • letter highlighting animation

Animation

  • letter highlighting sequence
  • frame-to-frame text variation

Animation Summary

12-frame contact sheet showing sequential highlighting of each letter in "Quack" within speech bubbles above a consistent pixelated yellow duck figure, creating a blinking text effect across frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • gray
  • light yellow

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text above figure
  • 4x3 grid layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small pixelated yellow duck standing on orange feet against a gray background, positioned below a black-outlined speech bubble containing the word "Quack". The text within each speech bubble varies across frames: some letters are solid black while others appear in light yellow, creating a blinking or highlighting effect where different characters (Q, u, a, c, k) become highlighted sequentially. The duck's pose remains consistent across all frames with its head slightly tilted and beak open as if vocalizing. Each frame shows the same basic composition: gray background, black speech bubble outline, yellow duck figure, and text in varying highlight states. The animation appears to cycle through highlighting each letter of "Quack" in sequence. The image is a contact sheet showing all 12 sampled frames from what was likely an animated icon with multiple source frames.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of a pixelated yellow duck animation showing sequential frames with changing text in speech bubbles above the duck.

Identity Hypotheses

  • duckblinkie | basis both | confidence high | evidence: yellow duck mascot with text-based animation matching name description

Metadata Only Entities

  • duckblinkie

Metadata Supported By Image

  • duck mascot figure
  • text-based animation
  • letter highlighting effect

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • duckblinkie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow duck quack speech bubble animation
  • pixel art buddy icon letter highlighting
  • duckblinkie animated text effect

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 12 sampled frames (4x3 layout)
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • source frame count: 12
  • review image pixels: 1024x768

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon mascot with playful text animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: duckblinkie | category: icon / contest / imgs / duckblinkie | url: duckblinkie

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • simple cartoon

Subjects

  • yellow duck mascot

Visible Text

  • Quack

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated duck
  • orange feet
  • gray background
  • black speech bubble outline
  • speech bubble text
  • Quack word
  • letter highlighting animation
  • sequential frame display
  • 4x3 grid layout
  • solid black text
  • light yellow text
  • duck head tilt
  • beak open expression
  • text blinking effect
  • frame-to-frame variation
  • pixel art style
  • small mascot figure
  • text-based animation
  • highlighted letter sequence
  • gray transparency background
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / contest / imgs / duckblinkie
Alt
duckblinkie
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage