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A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue-shirted stick figure character with white head and gray body, some frames featuring a black screen device with red/blue dots, and one frame with speech bubbles reading "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT".
A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue-shirted stick figure character with white head and gray body, some frames featuring a black screen device with red/blue dots…
A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures
- Category
- badass buddy icons / gaydar buddy icon
- Era
- Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
- Observed
- July 7, 2026 at 21:35 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 96×96 pixels
- File size
- 30 KB
- Motion
- Animated (27 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/65/6556cc35822b98eb157eb4563ff94a145eab029dd1736fe4f7c8e42244764f7c.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
- Archive ID
- 6556cc35822b98eb
- SHA-256
- 6556cc35822b98eb157eb4563ff94a145eab029dd1736fe4f7c8e42244764f7c
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 22, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
- Run
- 93
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.087137
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 10, 2026 at 00:34 UTC
- Run
- 8
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue-shirted stick figure character with white head and gray body, some frames featuring a black screen device with red/blue dots, and one frame with speech bubbles reading "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT".
- Reviewed
- July 10, 2026 at 00:34 UTC
- Run
- 8
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 42,407 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 3,549, response 1,280
Review tags
- blue shirt (color, 0.95)
- gray body (color, 0.95)
- pixel art style (style, 0.95)
- stick figure character (subject, 0.95)
- that explains a lot (text, 0.95)
- black screen device (object, 0.90)
- animation frames (motion, 0.85)
- red dots (symbol, 0.85)
- pinkish border (color, 0.80)
Actions
- standing
- holding device
- speaking
- arms crossed
- sitting
Animation
- character pose changes between frames
- device dot positions shift slightly
- speech bubbles appear only in one frame
Animation Summary
25 sampled animation frames showing a stick figure character with blue shirt and gray body, alternating between standing poses (some holding black screen device with shifting red dots) and seated speaking frame with "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT" bubbles; minimal motion includes pose changes and dot movement on device display
Colors
- white
- blue
- gray
- black
- red
- pinkish-red
Composition
- central character placement
- device in hand or near body
- speech bubble above head
Dense Caption
The image is a 1280x1280 contact sheet displaying 25 sampled animation frames of a pixel art buddy icon. The central subject is a stick figure character with white head, blue shirt, and gray body. Most frames show the character in various poses: standing upright (some with arms crossed), holding a black screen device with red and blue dots on its display, or sitting while speaking through speech bubbles reading "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT". The device appears to be an old-style monitor or handheld gadget with gray casing and pinkish top border. Frame-to-frame changes include the character's pose (standing vs. seated), hand position (holding device vs. arms crossed), and the presence of speech bubbles in one frame. The background is a uniform light gray transparency layer typical of AIM buddy icons, with no visible borders or additional elements beyond the character and device. Pixel art style uses limited color palette: white, blue, gray, black, red, pinkish-red. Some frames show subtle animation differences like dot positions on the screen device (red dot shifting between top-left and center).
Description
A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue-shirted stick figure character with white head and gray body, some frames featuring a black screen device with red/blue dots, and one frame with speech bubbles reading "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT".
Identity Hypotheses
- Gaydar | basis visible|both | confidence high | evidence: text below character in most frames; "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT" speech bubble context
Metadata Only Entities
- badass buddy icons
- wayback-badassbuddy-gifs
Metadata Supported By Image
"Gaydar" text appears below character in most frames, matching the name hint; "THAT EXPLAINS A LOT" speech bubble supports explanatory context
Mood
- neutral
- explanatory
Named Entities
- Gaydar
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- gaydar buddy icon pixel art
- blue shirt stick figure aim avatar
- that explains a lot speech bubble animation
- black screen device red dots animation
Objects
- speech bubbles
- red dots on screen
- pinkish border
Preprocessing Notes
- contact sheet layout 5x5
- 25 sampled animation frames from source with total 27 frames
- light gray transparency background for buddy icon display
Safety Notes
- text is explanatory, not sexual or explicit
Source Metadata Interpretation
- source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / gaydar buddy icon
Style
- pixel art
- low-resolution animation
- AIM buddy icon style
Subjects
- stick figure character
- black screen device
Visible Text
- Gaydar
- THAT
- EXPLAINS
- A
- LOT
Visually Supported Entities
- gaydar (text)
- AIM buddy icon style
Wordwall
- blue-shirted stick figure
- white head pixel art
- gray body character
- black screen device with red dots
- pinkish border on device
- speech bubbles reading THAT EXPLAINS A LOT
- standing pose frames
- seated speaking frame
- device held in hand
- arms crossed pose
- red dot shifting position
- pixel art style
- light gray background transparency
- 5x5 contact sheet layout
- 25 sampled animation frames
- blue shirt character
- white head character
- black screen device
- red dots on screen
- pinkish top border
- THAT EXPLAINS A LOT text
- standing with arms crossed
- holding black monitor
- device display dot movement
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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 / gaydar buddy icon
- Observed
- July 7, 2026 at 21:35 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons
Original: http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Gaydar_Buddy_Icon/?action=download