Two side-by-side animated frames of a green buddy icon with pixelated text and heart symbols, showing slight animation differences between the frames.

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Two side-by-side animated frames of a green buddy icon with pixelated text and heart symbols, showing slight animation differences between the frames.

Two side-by-side animated frames of a green buddy icon with pixelated text and heart symbols, showing slight animation differences between the frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation

  • frame 0 heart lighter than frame 1
  • heart symbol animation change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Two-frame animation showing subtle heart symbol change between frames; no other motion visible in contact sheet view.

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • two-frame contact sheet arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays two adjacent 48x48 pixel frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. Both frames feature a bright lime-green background with black pixelated text reading "ITS BECAUSE IM A hippie" in three lines: "ITS" at the top, "BECAUSE" in the middle, and "IM A hippie" at the bottom. The word "hippie" is rendered in a larger, stylized lowercase font with visible dithering effects on its edges. In frame 0 (left), there is a small pixelated heart symbol below the text; in frame 1 (right), this heart appears slightly darker or more solidified. Both frames have thin white borders and black outer outlines typical of AIM buddy icons from the late 1990s/early 2000s. The animation consists of subtle changes to the heart symbol between the two visible frames, with no other motion detected in this contact sheet view.

Description

Two side-by-side animated frames of a green buddy icon with pixelated text and heart symbols, showing slight animation differences between the frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • hippie-themed icon | basis both | confidence high | evidence text and visual style

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • alt: feb9
  • url: feb9

Metadata Only Entities

  • feb9

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: icon
  • category: buddypics

Named Entities

  • hippie (as cultural reference)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippie buddy icon
  • green AIM icon
  • text-based AIM avatar
  • pixel art hippie icon
  • animated heart AIM icon
  • AIM buddy icon with heart animation
  • low-res green text icon
  • 48x48 pixel hippie icon
  • AIM animated text icon
  • buddy icon two frame animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact-sheet layout 2x1
  • sampledFrameCount 2
  • sourceFrameCount 2
  • reviewImagePixels 512x256

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit text and symbols
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: feb9 | category: icon / iconupload / buddypics / feb9 | url: feb9

Subjects

  • text-based icon
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ITS
  • BECAUSE
  • IM A
  • hippie

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon design
  • text-based icon style

Wordwall

  • lime-green background
  • black pixelated text
  • "ITS BECAUSE IM A hippie" text
  • "hippie" stylized lowercase font
  • small pixelated heart symbol
  • dithering on "hippie" edges
  • thin white border
  • black outer outline
  • two-frame animation
  • heart symbol changes between frames
  • pixel art style
  • AIM buddy icon design
  • text layout three lines
  • 48x48 pixels
  • bright color scheme
  • low-resolution graphics
  • visible dithering effect
  • frame 0 heart lighter
  • frame 1 heart darker
  • green background with black text

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
feb9
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / feb9
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:38 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
772 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/7826bac901f673d0073ef8c231c4d8dfb75cc1079fa1a0aa21b45946c9a4f0b0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
7826bac901f673d0
SHA-256
7826bac901f673d0073ef8c231c4d8dfb75cc1079fa1a0aa21b45946c9a4f0b0
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Run
104
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089168

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911213onnx/unsafe0.089168onnx/nsfw0.053455onnx/nsfl0.035714
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
27
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

Two side-by-side animated frames of a green buddy icon with pixelated text and heart symbols, showing slight animation differences between the frames.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
16,149 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,956, response 1,109

Review tags

  • lime green background (color, 0.95)
  • aim buddy icon design (design, 0.95)
  • 48x48 pixels (size, 0.95)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.95)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • black pixelated text (text, 0.95)
  • two frame animation (animation, 0.90)
  • text layout three lines (composition, 0.90)
  • hippie stylized font (text, 0.90)
  • dithering effect (rendering, 0.85)
  • heart symbol change (symbol, 0.85)

Actions

  • heart animation change between frames

Animation

  • frame 0 heart lighter than frame 1
  • heart symbol animation change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Two-frame animation showing subtle heart symbol change between frames; no other motion visible in contact sheet view.

Colors

  • lime-green
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • two-frame contact sheet arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays two adjacent 48x48 pixel frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. Both frames feature a bright lime-green background with black pixelated text reading "ITS BECAUSE IM A hippie" in three lines: "ITS" at the top, "BECAUSE" in the middle, and "IM A hippie" at the bottom. The word "hippie" is rendered in a larger, stylized lowercase font with visible dithering effects on its edges. In frame 0 (left), there is a small pixelated heart symbol below the text; in frame 1 (right), this heart appears slightly darker or more solidified. Both frames have thin white borders and black outer outlines typical of AIM buddy icons from the late 1990s/early 2000s. The animation consists of subtle changes to the heart symbol between the two visible frames, with no other motion detected in this contact sheet view.

Description

Two side-by-side animated frames of a green buddy icon with pixelated text and heart symbols, showing slight animation differences between the frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • hippie-themed icon | basis both | confidence high | evidence text and visual style

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • alt: feb9
  • url: feb9

Metadata Only Entities

  • feb9

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: icon
  • category: buddypics

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • quirky

Named Entities

  • hippie (as cultural reference)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippie buddy icon
  • green AIM icon
  • text-based AIM avatar
  • pixel art hippie icon
  • animated heart AIM icon
  • AIM buddy icon with heart animation
  • low-res green text icon
  • 48x48 pixel hippie icon
  • AIM animated text icon
  • buddy icon two frame animation

Objects

  • pixelated heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact-sheet layout 2x1
  • sampledFrameCount 2
  • sourceFrameCount 2
  • reviewImagePixels 512x256

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit text and symbols
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: feb9 | category: icon / iconupload / buddypics / feb9 | url: feb9

Style

  • pixel art
  • AIM buddy icon style
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • text-based icon
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ITS
  • BECAUSE
  • IM A
  • hippie

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon design
  • text-based icon style

Wordwall

  • lime-green background
  • black pixelated text
  • "ITS BECAUSE IM A hippie" text
  • "hippie" stylized lowercase font
  • small pixelated heart symbol
  • dithering on "hippie" edges
  • thin white border
  • black outer outline
  • two-frame animation
  • heart symbol changes between frames
  • pixel art style
  • AIM buddy icon design
  • text layout three lines
  • 48x48 pixels
  • bright color scheme
  • low-resolution graphics
  • visible dithering effect
  • frame 0 heart lighter
  • frame 1 heart darker
  • green background with black text
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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 / iconupload / buddypics / feb9
Alt
feb9
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:38 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage