A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a red, pixelated creature with multiple limbs on the left side and white text reading "Anime IM" above smaller text "c0m" on a black background to the right.

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A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a red, pixelated creature with multiple limbs on the left side and white text reading "Anime IM" above smaller text "c0m" on a black background to the right.

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a red, pixelated creature with multiple limbs on the left side and white text reading "Anime IM" above smaller text "c0m" on a black background…

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Animation

  • two-frame sequence (source metadata)
  • no visible animation changes in contact sheet frames

Animation Summary

Two-frame contact sheet showing a red pixelated creature on white background (left) and "Anime IM" text logo with "c0m" mark on black background (right); no visible animation changes between frames but source metadata indicates two-frame sequence.

Composition

  • vertical split between creature and text elements
  • left frame white background, right frame black background

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet displaying two frames of an animated buddy icon. On the left frame (48x256 pixels), there is a red, pixelated creature with multiple claw-like limbs extending from its body against a white background; the creature's form suggests motion or animation potential. The right frame (48x256 pixels) shows a black background with white text: "Anime IM" in large stylized letters at the top and smaller text "c0m" below it, both exhibiting pixelation artifacts typical of low-resolution digital art from early internet eras. The overall composition is split vertically between the creature and text elements. The image uses limited color palette (red, white, black) with visible dithering and blocky rendering consistent with 1990s/2000s instant messaging icon standards. Both frames show no visible animation changes within this contact sheet but suggest a two-frame sequence based on source metadata.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a red, pixelated creature with multiple limbs on the left side and white text reading "Anime IM" above smaller text "c0m" on a black background to the right.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Ridley | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence source hint suggests Metroid connection but visual identity is ambiguous

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "Metroid" or "Ridley" character identity not visually confirmed by pixels

Metadata Only Entities

  • Metroid
  • Ridley

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Anime IM" text matches source name
  • low-resolution pixel art style consistent with AIM era

Named Entities

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Anime IM buddy icon
  • red pixelated creature AIM icon
  • c0m text logo 1990s internet art
  • Metroid-inspired AIM icon (metadata)
  • 48x48 pixel animation frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1
  • sampledFrameCount 2
  • reviewImagePixels 512x256
  • gray transparency background not visible in this image

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style creature with no sexual or violent content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons | title: Metroid Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons | alt: metroid ridley 050106 gif | category: buddy icons / metroid / metroid buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Visually Supported Entities

  • Anime IM logo
  • AIM-era digital art style

Wordwall

  • red pixelated creature
  • multiple claw-like limbs
  • white background
  • black background
  • "Anime IM" text
  • "c0m" text
  • pixelation artifacts
  • dithering rendering
  • low-resolution digital art
  • vertical split composition
  • stylized lettering
  • 48x256 pixels
  • contact sheet layout
  • two-frame sequence
  • red body parts
  • white stick-like appendages
  • blocky rendering
  • text-only frame
  • creature motion potential

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons

Source title
Metroid Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Category
buddy icons / metroid / metroid buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/dbb63b00f6a6e58ea0079efe827d3198fea2f32115de73e466e33bbff69be741.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Archive ID
dbb63b00f6a6e58e
SHA-256
dbb63b00f6a6e58ea0079efe827d3198fea2f32115de73e466e33bbff69be741
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086831

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921816onnx/unsafe0.086831onnx/nsfw0.048683onnx/nsfl0.038149
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 18, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
Run
32
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 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a red, pixelated creature with multiple limbs on the left side and white text reading "Anime IM" above smaller text "c0m" on a black background to the right.

Reviewed
July 18, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
Run
32
Version
v3
Elapsed
68,937 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,992, response 2,352

Review tags

  • pixelation artifacts (rendering, 0.95)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.95)
  • anime im logo (subject, 0.95)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.90)
  • red pixelated creature (subject, 0.90)
  • c0m text mark (text, 0.90)
  • aim era icon (era, 0.85)
  • vertical split composition (layout, 0.85)

Actions

  • limb extension (suggested by pose)

Animation

  • two-frame sequence (source metadata)
  • no visible animation changes in contact sheet frames

Animation Summary

Two-frame contact sheet showing a red pixelated creature on white background (left) and "Anime IM" text logo with "c0m" mark on black background (right); no visible animation changes between frames but source metadata indicates two-frame sequence.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • vertical split between creature and text elements
  • left frame white background, right frame black background

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet displaying two frames of an animated buddy icon. On the left frame (48x256 pixels), there is a red, pixelated creature with multiple claw-like limbs extending from its body against a white background; the creature's form suggests motion or animation potential. The right frame (48x256 pixels) shows a black background with white text: "Anime IM" in large stylized letters at the top and smaller text "c0m" below it, both exhibiting pixelation artifacts typical of low-resolution digital art from early internet eras. The overall composition is split vertically between the creature and text elements. The image uses limited color palette (red, white, black) with visible dithering and blocky rendering consistent with 1990s/2000s instant messaging icon standards. Both frames show no visible animation changes within this contact sheet but suggest a two-frame sequence based on source metadata.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a red, pixelated creature with multiple limbs on the left side and white text reading "Anime IM" above smaller text "c0m" on a black background to the right.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Ridley | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence source hint suggests Metroid connection but visual identity is ambiguous

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "Metroid" or "Ridley" character identity not visually confirmed by pixels

Metadata Only Entities

  • Metroid
  • Ridley

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Anime IM" text matches source name
  • low-resolution pixel art style consistent with AIM era

Mood

  • retro
  • nostalgic
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Anime IM buddy icon
  • red pixelated creature AIM icon
  • c0m text logo 1990s internet art
  • Metroid-inspired AIM icon (metadata)
  • 48x48 pixel animation frame

Objects

  • "Anime IM" text logo
  • "c0m" text mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1
  • sampledFrameCount 2
  • reviewImagePixels 512x256
  • gray transparency background not visible in this image

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style creature with no sexual or violent content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons | title: Metroid Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons | alt: metroid ridley 050106 gif | category: buddy icons / metroid / metroid buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital
  • 1990s/2000s internet aesthetic

Subjects

  • red pixelated creature with multiple limbs

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Visually Supported Entities

  • Anime IM logo
  • AIM-era digital art style

Wordwall

  • red pixelated creature
  • multiple claw-like limbs
  • white background
  • black background
  • "Anime IM" text
  • "c0m" text
  • pixelation artifacts
  • dithering rendering
  • low-resolution digital art
  • vertical split composition
  • stylized lettering
  • 48x256 pixels
  • contact sheet layout
  • two-frame sequence
  • red body parts
  • white stick-like appendages
  • blocky rendering
  • text-only frame
  • creature motion potential
Raw JSON
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Source semantic tags (6)
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Full source records (1)

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons (animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Type
live categorized AIM icon portal
Category
buddy icons / metroid / metroid buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Title
Metroid Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Alt
metroid ridley 050106 gif
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Rights
fan-curated anime character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large alphabetized anime fan portal with series-level category labels, useful for a genre-specific AIM-era cross-section