A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two cartoon characters with a yellow stick figure and brown bull-like character, some frames displaying text bubbles.

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A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two cartoon characters with a yellow stick figure and brown bull-like character, some frames displaying text bubbles.

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two cartoon characters with a yellow stick figure and brown bull-like character, some frames displaying text bubbles. Animated 96×9…

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Animation

  • horn movement variation between frames
  • text changes from Nice Ass! to THANKS!
  • small object held by bull in one frame

Animation Summary

15-frame pixel art animation showing two characters with text changing between "Nice Ass!" and "THANKS!" across different frames, featuring subtle horn movement variations on the bull character.

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • centered characters in each frame
  • text below or above characters

Dense Caption

The image is a 4x4 grid contact sheet containing 15 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features the same two cartoon characters: a small white-headed yellow-shirted stick figure standing next to a larger brown bull-like character with curved horns and green grass at its feet. The background of each frame is solid gray, indicating transparency in the original animation. In most frames (12 out of 15), the text "Nice Ass!" appears below the characters in white pixelated font with an underscore under the first word. Three frames display a speech bubble containing the text "THANKS!" above the characters instead of the standard text. The stick figure remains static throughout all frames, while the bull character shows subtle variations: its right horn is slightly raised or lowered across different frames, and in one frame it holds a small brown object resembling a flower or insect near its left side. All visual elements are rendered in 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette including white, yellow, brown, green, and black outlines.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two cartoon characters with a yellow stick figure and brown bull-like character, some frames displaying text bubbles.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"\"Nice Ass Buddy\"","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"text visible in most frames"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "nice ass" text matches source hint name
  • "badass buddy" style consistent with pixel art characters

Named Entities

  • Nice Ass Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nice ass buddy icon
  • 8-bit pixel art animation
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon
  • thinks! speech bubble
  • yellow stick figure bull character

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 15 sampled animation frames arranged 4x4 on gray background
  • sourceFrameCount indicates original animation had at least 15 frames
  • each frame is a separate animated state of the same icon

Safety Notes

  • visible adult-language text ("Nice Ass!") requires manual review

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / nice ass buddy icon

Visible Text

  • Nice Ass!
  • THANKS!

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon
  • 8-bit cartoon animation

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • brown bull character
  • white text Nice Ass!
  • speech bubble THANKS!
  • gray background transparency
  • green grass at feet
  • curved horns on bull
  • small flower object in one frame
  • underscore under Nice
  • pixelated font style
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • static stick figure pose
  • bull horn variation
  • 15-frame animation contact sheet
  • 4x4 grid layout
  • white text bubble
  • brown object held by bull
  • solid gray background
  • green grass patches
  • black outlines on characters

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / nice ass buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:41 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
16 KB
Motion
Animated (15 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d9d3c67b6bfb18de73e85bccd67f261d801f682d50b51ff3e19c63d1cc75bcb7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
d9d3c67b6bfb18de
SHA-256
d9d3c67b6bfb18de73e85bccd67f261d801f682d50b51ff3e19c63d1cc75bcb7
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
0.086302

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917055onnx/unsafe0.086302onnx/nsfw0.046525onnx/nsfl0.039777
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-importprovider flaggedprovider review
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 01:37 UTC
Run
8
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
questionable
Overall score
0.900000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review1.000000truelegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two cartoon characters with a yellow stick figure and brown bull-like character, some frames displaying text bubbles.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 01:37 UTC
Run
8
Version
v3
Elapsed
16,654 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,941, response 1,192

Review tags

  • gray background transparency (background, 0.95)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.95)
  • brown bull character (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • nice ass text (text, 0.95)
  • aol instant messenger icon (platform, 0.90)
  • green grass patches (environment, 0.85)
  • thanks speech bubble (text, 0.85)
  • horn movement variation (animation, 0.75)
  • small brown object (object, 0.65)

Actions

  • standing next to each other
  • holding small brown object (one frame)
  • text bubble appearing (three frames)

Animation

  • horn movement variation between frames
  • text changes from Nice Ass! to THANKS!
  • small object held by bull in one frame

Animation Summary

15-frame pixel art animation showing two characters with text changing between "Nice Ass!" and "THANKS!" across different frames, featuring subtle horn movement variations on the bull character.

Colors

  • white
  • yellow
  • brown
  • green
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • centered characters in each frame
  • text below or above characters

Dense Caption

The image is a 4x4 grid contact sheet containing 15 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features the same two cartoon characters: a small white-headed yellow-shirted stick figure standing next to a larger brown bull-like character with curved horns and green grass at its feet. The background of each frame is solid gray, indicating transparency in the original animation. In most frames (12 out of 15), the text "Nice Ass!" appears below the characters in white pixelated font with an underscore under the first word. Three frames display a speech bubble containing the text "THANKS!" above the characters instead of the standard text. The stick figure remains static throughout all frames, while the bull character shows subtle variations: its right horn is slightly raised or lowered across different frames, and in one frame it holds a small brown object resembling a flower or insect near its left side. All visual elements are rendered in 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette including white, yellow, brown, green, and black outlines.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two cartoon characters with a yellow stick figure and brown bull-like character, some frames displaying text bubbles.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"\"Nice Ass Buddy\"","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"text visible in most frames"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "nice ass" text matches source hint name
  • "badass buddy" style consistent with pixel art characters

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous
  • silly

Named Entities

  • Nice Ass Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nice ass buddy icon
  • 8-bit pixel art animation
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon
  • thinks! speech bubble
  • yellow stick figure bull character

Objects

  • small brown flower/insect object
  • speech bubbles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 15 sampled animation frames arranged 4x4 on gray background
  • sourceFrameCount indicates original animation had at least 15 frames
  • each frame is a separate animated state of the same icon

Safety Notes

  • visible adult-language text ("Nice Ass!") requires manual review

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / nice ass buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution cartoon
  • retro digital animation

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure character
  • brown bull-like character

Visible Text

  • Nice Ass!
  • THANKS!

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon
  • 8-bit cartoon animation

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • brown bull character
  • white text Nice Ass!
  • speech bubble THANKS!
  • gray background transparency
  • green grass at feet
  • curved horns on bull
  • small flower object in one frame
  • underscore under Nice
  • pixelated font style
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • static stick figure pose
  • bull horn variation
  • 15-frame animation contact sheet
  • 4x4 grid layout
  • white text bubble
  • brown object held by bull
  • solid gray background
  • green grass patches
  • black outlines on characters
Raw JSON
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