A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a blue Mega Man character in various poses with white text and small visual elements changing across frames.

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A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a blue Mega Man character in various poses with white text and small visual elements changing across frames.

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a blue Mega Man character in various poses with white text and small visual elements changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation

  • frame 0: no additional elements
  • frame 1: single vertical white line appears right of character
  • frame 2: vertical line extends into thick rectangle
  • frame 3: rectangle replaced by single plus sign
  • frame 4: second plus sign added to left of first
  • frame 5: third plus sign added to left of second

Animation Summary

6-frame animation showing a static Mega Man character with white graphical elements changing sequentially from no elements to single line, thick rectangle, then one through three plus signs across frames.

Composition

  • centered character with text below on gray background

Dense Caption

The image displays a 6-frame animated contact sheet for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon featuring the Mega Man character. Each frame shows a pixelated blue robot-like figure with red eyes, positioned left of centered on a gray background. The character has a rounded head, rectangular body, and cylindrical limbs with three small red dots on its side. Below each character is white text reading "MegaMan" in a bold, blocky font with an underscore beneath it. Frame 0 shows the character facing right with no additional elements. Frame 1 adds a single vertical white line to the right of the character. Frame 2 extends this line into a thicker white rectangle. Frame 3 replaces the rectangle with two small plus signs. Frame 4 adds another plus sign, making three total. Frame 5 shows four plus signs in sequence from left to right. The animation progresses through these changes: no elements → single vertical line → thick rectangle → one plus sign → two plus signs → three plus signs. All frames maintain consistent character design and text placement with only the white graphical elements changing across frames.

Description

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a blue Mega Man character in various poses with white text and small visual elements changing across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mega Man | basis both | confidence high | evidence blue robot character with red eyes and three dots on side matches Mega Man design

Metadata Only Entities

  • Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons
  • specials buddyicons category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Mega Man character design
  • pixel art style
  • gray background transparency
  • white graphical elements changing across frames

Named Entities

  • Mega Man

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mega Man pixel art buddy icon
  • blue Mega Man animation with plus signs
  • AOL Instant Messenger Mega Man icon
  • 6-frame Mega Man contact sheet

Preprocessing Notes

  • 6-frame contact sheet arranged in 3x2 grid (left-to-right, top-to-bottom)
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • review image size 768x512 pixels
  • sourceFrameCount=6 matches sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon robot character
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: gamecubicle-gamecube-aim-icons | title: Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons | category: specials buddyicons / nintendo gamecube aol buddy icons | url: megamanbuddy

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • MegaMan

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mega Man franchise
  • Nintendo GameCube (via source hints)

Wordwall

  • blue Mega Man character
  • red eyes
  • three red dots on side
  • white "MegaMan" text
  • underscore under text
  • gray background
  • pixelated style
  • vertical white line in frame 1
  • thick white rectangle in frame 2
  • single plus sign in frame 3
  • two plus signs in frame 4
  • three plus signs in frame 5
  • character facing right
  • robotic design
  • blocky font
  • white graphical elements changing
  • 6-frame animation contact sheet
  • pixel art style
  • Mega Man character identity clues
  • gray transparency background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GameCubicle Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons

Source title
Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons
Category
specials buddyicons / nintendo gamecube aol buddy icons
Era
Early-2000s Game/Fan Promo
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:59 UTC

GameCubicle Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons

Source title
Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons
Category
specials buddyicons / nintendo gamecube aol buddy icons
Era
Early-2000s Game/Fan Promo
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:59 UTC

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
1140
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:39 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/15/15625884f2f12139b00936bce90a4dc378e81674f445b9399263920e7f82429f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Archive ID
15625884f2f12139
SHA-256
15625884f2f12139b00936bce90a4dc378e81674f445b9399263920e7f82429f
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096414

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911018onnx/unsafe0.096414onnx/nsfw0.058546onnx/nsfl0.037867
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
28
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 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a blue Mega Man character in various poses with white text and small visual elements changing across frames.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
16,857 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,996, response 1,323

Review tags

  • mega man text (text, 1.00)
  • 6 frame animation (animation, 0.95)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.95)
  • mega man character (subject, 0.95)
  • plus signs animation (animation, 0.90)
  • white graphical elements (object, 0.90)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • blue robot character (subject, 0.90)
  • red dots on side (subject, 0.90)
  • underscore under text (text, 0.90)
  • thick white rectangle (object, 0.85)
  • vertical white line (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • character remains static in all frames

Animation

  • frame 0: no additional elements
  • frame 1: single vertical white line appears right of character
  • frame 2: vertical line extends into thick rectangle
  • frame 3: rectangle replaced by single plus sign
  • frame 4: second plus sign added to left of first
  • frame 5: third plus sign added to left of second

Animation Summary

6-frame animation showing a static Mega Man character with white graphical elements changing sequentially from no elements to single line, thick rectangle, then one through three plus signs across frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered character with text below on gray background

Dense Caption

The image displays a 6-frame animated contact sheet for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon featuring the Mega Man character. Each frame shows a pixelated blue robot-like figure with red eyes, positioned left of centered on a gray background. The character has a rounded head, rectangular body, and cylindrical limbs with three small red dots on its side. Below each character is white text reading "MegaMan" in a bold, blocky font with an underscore beneath it. Frame 0 shows the character facing right with no additional elements. Frame 1 adds a single vertical white line to the right of the character. Frame 2 extends this line into a thicker white rectangle. Frame 3 replaces the rectangle with two small plus signs. Frame 4 adds another plus sign, making three total. Frame 5 shows four plus signs in sequence from left to right. The animation progresses through these changes: no elements → single vertical line → thick rectangle → one plus sign → two plus signs → three plus signs. All frames maintain consistent character design and text placement with only the white graphical elements changing across frames.

Description

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a blue Mega Man character in various poses with white text and small visual elements changing across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mega Man | basis both | confidence high | evidence blue robot character with red eyes and three dots on side matches Mega Man design

Metadata Only Entities

  • Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons
  • specials buddyicons category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Mega Man character design
  • pixel art style
  • gray background transparency
  • white graphical elements changing across frames

Mood

  • neutral
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Mega Man

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mega Man pixel art buddy icon
  • blue Mega Man animation with plus signs
  • AOL Instant Messenger Mega Man icon
  • 6-frame Mega Man contact sheet

Objects

  • white graphical elements (line, rectangle, plus signs)

Preprocessing Notes

  • 6-frame contact sheet arranged in 3x2 grid (left-to-right, top-to-bottom)
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • review image size 768x512 pixels
  • sourceFrameCount=6 matches sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon robot character
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: gamecubicle-gamecube-aim-icons | title: Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons | category: specials buddyicons / nintendo gamecube aol buddy icons | url: megamanbuddy

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • blocky rendering

Subjects

  • blue Mega Man robot character

Visible Text

  • MegaMan

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mega Man franchise
  • Nintendo GameCube (via source hints)

Wordwall

  • blue Mega Man character
  • red eyes
  • three red dots on side
  • white "MegaMan" text
  • underscore under text
  • gray background
  • pixelated style
  • vertical white line in frame 1
  • thick white rectangle in frame 2
  • single plus sign in frame 3
  • two plus signs in frame 4
  • three plus signs in frame 5
  • character facing right
  • robotic design
  • blocky font
  • white graphical elements changing
  • 6-frame animation contact sheet
  • pixel art style
  • Mega Man character identity clues
  • gray transparency background
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Full source records (3)

GameCubicle Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons (gamecubicle-gamecube-aim-icons)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-2000s Game/Fan Promo
Type
fan-site static AIM install gallery
Category
specials buddyicons / nintendo gamecube aol buddy icons
Title
Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Rights
licensed game/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
Nintendo and GameCube fan-site AOL buddy icons with AIM install links

GameCubicle Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons (gamecubicle-gamecube-aim-icons)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-2000s Game/Fan Promo
Type
fan-site static AIM install gallery
Category
specials buddyicons / nintendo gamecube aol buddy icons
Title
Nintendo GameCube AOL Buddy Icons
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Rights
licensed game/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
Nintendo and GameCube fan-site AOL buddy icons with AIM install links

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
1140
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 01:39 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal