Permanent icon record
A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, labeled "Paranoid Buddy" in all frames except two where text boxes read "THEY'RE" and "AFTER ME!".
A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, labeled "Paranoid Buddy" in all frames except two where text boxes read "T…
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 / paranoid buddy buddy icon
- Era
- Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
- Observed
- July 7, 2026 at 23:57 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 96×96 pixels
- File size
- 10 KB
- Motion
- Animated (13 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 7, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/4e/4eb13bc172bc0728848139aeb07a366ae2432058be3b75c938f527a34c48035e.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
- Archive ID
- 4eb13bc172bc0728
- SHA-256
- 4eb13bc172bc0728848139aeb07a366ae2432058be3b75c938f527a34c48035e
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 22, 2026 at 12:30 UTC
- Run
- 89
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.097348
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 10, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
- Run
- 15
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, labeled "Paranoid Buddy" in all frames except two where text boxes read "THEY'RE" and "AFTER ME!".
- Reviewed
- July 10, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
- Run
- 15
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 6,049 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,937, response 1,196
Review tags
- gray background (color, 1.00)
- 4x4 contact sheet (composition, 1.00)
- yellow stick figure (subject, 0.98)
- bold white sans serif text (text, 0.98)
- pixel art animation (style, 0.97)
- paranoid buddy (subject, 0.95)
- after me text box (text, 0.95)
- they re text box (text, 0.95)
- text box replacement (action, 0.92)
Actions
- standing upright
- text box replacement in two frames
Animation
- text changes between frames: standard label to "THEY'RE" to "AFTER ME!"
Animation Summary
13-frame animation with consistent character pose; only the on-screen text changes between frames, showing "Paranoid Buddy" in most frames, "THEY'RE" in one frame, and "AFTER ME!" in another.
Colors
- gray
- yellow
- white
- black
Composition
- centered character and label
- 4x4 contact sheet grid
Dense Caption
The image is a 1024x1024 contact sheet displaying 13 sampled frames of an animated icon arranged in a 4x4 grid with one frame missing. Each frame features the same pixel art character: a small yellow stick figure with white head and arms, standing upright with hands at its sides, positioned beneath the text "Paranoid Buddy" in bold white sans-serif font on a gray background. The character has a simple rounded head with two black dot eyes and no mouth. In 11 frames (all except positions [3,2] and [2,0]), the text is static below the figure. Frame at position [3,2] contains a white rectangular text box with bold black uppercase text "THEY'RE" replacing the standard label. Frame at position [2,0] shows a similar white text box with bold black uppercase text "AFTER ME!". The character's pose and color scheme remain consistent across all frames; only the visible text changes between two distinct phrases. The background is solid gray with no additional elements or transparency effects visible in any frame.
Description
A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animated icon showing a yellow stick figure with white head and arms, labeled "Paranoid Buddy" in all frames except two where text boxes read "THEY'RE" and "AFTER ME!".
Identity Hypotheses
- Paranoid Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text label and style matches source hints
Metadata Supported By Image
- "Paranoid Buddy" label matches visible text
- pixel art style consistent with 1990s/2000s AIM animations
Mood
- anxious
- urgent (in "AFTER ME!" frame)
Named Entities
- Paranoid Buddy
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- paranoid buddy icon
- yellow stick figure paranoid buddy
- text box they're paranoid buddy
- after me paranoid buddy animation
Objects
- white rectangular text boxes
Preprocessing Notes
- 1024x1024 contact sheet with 13 sampled frames from animated icon
- gray background indicates transparency
- contact-sheet layout is review context, not part of original icon content
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon character with text referencing paranoia
Source Metadata Interpretation
- source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / paranoid buddy buddy icon
Style
- pixel art
- 8-bit animation style
- simple cartoon
Subjects
- yellow stick figure character
- text labels
Visible Text
- Paranoid Buddy
- THEY'RE
- AFTER ME!
Visually Supported Entities
- AIM buddy icon collection
Wordwall
- yellow stick figure
- white head dot eyes
- black dot eyes
- simple upright pose
- bold white sans-serif text
- gray background
- "Paranoid Buddy" label
- text box replacement
- "THEY'RE" text
- "AFTER ME!" text
- 13-frame contact sheet
- 4x4 grid layout
- pixel art animation
- static character pose
- frame-to-frame text change
- white rectangular text box
- bold uppercase text
- all frames except two have standard label
- one frame shows "THEY'RE"
- another frame shows "AFTER ME!"
Raw JSON
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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 / paranoid buddy buddy icon
- Observed
- July 7, 2026 at 23:57 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons
Original: http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Paranoid_Buddy_Buddy_Icon/?action=download Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20171204215622id_/http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Paranoid_Buddy_Buddy_Icon/?action=download