A 2x2 contact sheet of three animated frames showing stylized character portraits against a red and orange striped background with visible pixelation.

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A 2x2 contact sheet of three animated frames showing stylized character portraits against a red and orange striped background with visible pixelation.

A 2x2 contact sheet of three animated frames showing stylized character portraits against a red and orange striped background with visible pixelation. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation

  • static poses across frames; no visible motion between sampled frames

Animation Summary

Three static character portrait frames with no visible motion between them, arranged in a 2x2 contact sheet layout showing different characters against consistent red-orange striped background

Composition

  • 2x2 contact sheet with three visible character portraits and one empty gray cell

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 contact sheet containing three distinct animated frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom. The first frame (top-left) shows a person with voluminous curly blonde hair, red lipstick, and a white outfit against a red-orange striped backdrop. The second frame (top-right) depicts a person wearing a black cowboy hat, dark clothing, and a light-colored shirt collar on the same background. The third frame (bottom-left) features a person with short straight black bobbed hair, pale skin, and red lipstick also set against the red-orange striped background. All portraits exhibit pixelated rendering typical of early digital animation with visible dithering and anti-aliased edges. The rightmost cell in the 2x2 grid is empty gray space indicating transparency or unused area. Each frame shows a different character portrait without visible motion between frames, suggesting these are static poses from an animated sequence rather than dynamic movement. The background consists of diagonal red-orange stripes with subtle gradient transitions and consistent color palette across all visible frames.

Description

A 2x2 contact sheet of three animated frames showing stylized character portraits against a red and orange striped background with visible pixelation.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Chicago character | basis both | confidence high | evidence stylized portraits match Chicago aesthetic and era of early AIM icons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text confirming specific movie title or character names beyond visual similarities to Chicago-style characters

Metadata Only Entities

  • chicago musical film reference (source hint)

Metadata Supported By Image

red-orange striped background consistent with theatrical or musical production aesthetics; character styling matches early 2000s digital art style for entertainment icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chicago-themed animated buddy icon
  • red-orange striped background character portraits
  • pixelated early 2000s AIM animation frames
  • three-character contact sheet animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x2, sampled frame count 3 from source frame count 3, gray transparency background in unused cell

Safety Notes

  • no explicit content; all figures are stylized cartoon portraits with no nudity or violence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • suggests Chicago-themed animation with possible movie reference based on 'chicago' and 'myoldicons / movies / chicago' tags

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chicago-themed animation
  • early 2000s digital cartoon style

Wordwall

  • blonde curly hair
  • red lipstick
  • white outfit
  • black cowboy hat
  • short black bobbed hair
  • pale skin tone
  • red-orange striped background
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithering effects
  • anti-aliased edges
  • diagonal stripes
  • three distinct character portraits
  • static poses
  • gray transparency area
  • stylized facial features
  • voluminous hair
  • light-colored shirt collar
  • red and orange color palette
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • visible pixelation
  • character portrait frames

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
ico_chicago12
Category
icon / movies / imgs / ico chicago12
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:14 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / movies / chicago
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:35 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
7566
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:05 UTC

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-02036
Category
buddyicons / movie / chicago
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:21 UTC

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-02036
Category
movie / chicago
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f300200bec7983b6db1941491f4d1c4046098f7230658279579f37cae8042b2e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
f300200bec7983b6
SHA-256
f300200bec7983b6db1941491f4d1c4046098f7230658279579f37cae8042b2e
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110074

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929665onnx/unsafe0.110074onnx/nsfw0.077360onnx/nsfl0.032713
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 15:41 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

A 2x2 contact sheet of three animated frames showing stylized character portraits against a red and orange striped background with visible pixelation.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
19,744 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,025, response 1,094

Review tags

  • red orange striped background (composition, 0.95)
  • pixelated rendering (style, 0.95)
  • blonde curly hair (subject, 0.95)
  • short black bobbed hair (subject, 0.95)
  • stylized facial features (subject, 0.95)
  • gray transparency area (background, 0.90)
  • cowboy hat (object, 0.90)
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout (composition, 0.85)

Animation

  • static poses across frames; no visible motion between sampled frames

Animation Summary

Three static character portrait frames with no visible motion between them, arranged in a 2x2 contact sheet layout showing different characters against consistent red-orange striped background

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • 2x2 contact sheet with three visible character portraits and one empty gray cell

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 contact sheet containing three distinct animated frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom. The first frame (top-left) shows a person with voluminous curly blonde hair, red lipstick, and a white outfit against a red-orange striped backdrop. The second frame (top-right) depicts a person wearing a black cowboy hat, dark clothing, and a light-colored shirt collar on the same background. The third frame (bottom-left) features a person with short straight black bobbed hair, pale skin, and red lipstick also set against the red-orange striped background. All portraits exhibit pixelated rendering typical of early digital animation with visible dithering and anti-aliased edges. The rightmost cell in the 2x2 grid is empty gray space indicating transparency or unused area. Each frame shows a different character portrait without visible motion between frames, suggesting these are static poses from an animated sequence rather than dynamic movement. The background consists of diagonal red-orange stripes with subtle gradient transitions and consistent color palette across all visible frames.

Description

A 2x2 contact sheet of three animated frames showing stylized character portraits against a red and orange striped background with visible pixelation.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Chicago character | basis both | confidence high | evidence stylized portraits match Chicago aesthetic and era of early AIM icons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text confirming specific movie title or character names beyond visual similarities to Chicago-style characters

Metadata Only Entities

  • chicago musical film reference (source hint)

Metadata Supported By Image

red-orange striped background consistent with theatrical or musical production aesthetics; character styling matches early 2000s digital art style for entertainment icons

Mood

  • nostalgic retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chicago-themed animated buddy icon
  • red-orange striped background character portraits
  • pixelated early 2000s AIM animation frames
  • three-character contact sheet animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x2, sampled frame count 3 from source frame count 3, gray transparency background in unused cell

Safety Notes

  • no explicit content; all figures are stylized cartoon portraits with no nudity or violence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • suggests Chicago-themed animation with possible movie reference based on 'chicago' and 'myoldicons / movies / chicago' tags

Style

  • pixelated cartoon animation

Subjects

  • blonde woman
  • cowboy-hatted man
  • black-bobbed woman

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chicago-themed animation
  • early 2000s digital cartoon style

Wordwall

  • blonde curly hair
  • red lipstick
  • white outfit
  • black cowboy hat
  • short black bobbed hair
  • pale skin tone
  • red-orange striped background
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithering effects
  • anti-aliased edges
  • diagonal stripes
  • three distinct character portraits
  • static poses
  • gray transparency area
  • stylized facial features
  • voluminous hair
  • light-colored shirt collar
  • red and orange color palette
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • visible pixelation
  • character portrait frames
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Full source records (5)

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 / movies / imgs / ico chicago12
Alt
ico_chicago12
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:14 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / movies / chicago
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1097851586_1545037797.gif | chicago | animated | myoldicons id 178233
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:35 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
7566
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs (wayback-buddysite-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive direct asset recovery from a dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal
Category
buddyicons / movie / chicago
Alt
buddysite-02036
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM buddy-icon portal spanning animals, anime, brands, birthdays, fandom, moods, relationships, sports, and other period identity graphics

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs (wayback-buddysite-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive direct asset recovery from a dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal
Category
movie / chicago
Alt
buddysite-02036
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM buddy-icon portal spanning animals, anime, brands, birthdays, fandom, moods, relationships, sports, and other period identity graphics