Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure running with white smoke trails, repeated across 20 frames showing motion progression on gray background.

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Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure running with white smoke trails, repeated across 20 frames showing motion progression on gray background.

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Animation

  • frame-to-frame pose changes from upright to running stance
  • increasing smoke trail density and size
  • progressive motion indication through posture shifts

Animation Summary

20-frame contact sheet showing yellow stick figure running with increasing smoke trails, progressing from upright stance to full sprint across sequential frames.

Composition

  • 5x4 grid layout
  • horizontal text repetition below frames
  • uniform spacing between elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x4 grid of animated frames (totaling 20 visible samples) against a solid light gray background. Each frame features a small yellow stick-figure character in various stages of movement, accompanied by white smoke or dust trails indicating motion. The figure has a simple design with black outlines and appears to be running or sprinting. In the top-left frames, the figure is upright with minimal smoke; as the sequence progresses rightward and downward, the smoke trails become more prominent and dynamic, showing increasing speed or energy. The text "_Play Tetris_" repeats horizontally across each row beneath the animation frames in a pixelated white font. The character's pose shifts incrementally between frames: initial upright stance evolves into forward-leaning running posture with arms swinging and legs extended. Smoke trails vary from small puffs to larger, more diffuse clouds behind the figure. All elements are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style typical of early internet graphics, with visible pixelation and limited color palette (yellow, black, white, gray).

Description

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure running with white smoke trails, repeated across 20 frames showing motion progression on gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Play Tetris Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence repeated text and gaming motion animation

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons collection
  • play tetris buddy icon name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • the repeated "_Play Tetris_" text directly supports the play tetris connection
  • the running character animation visually aligns with active gaming motion

Named Entities

  • Play Tetris

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure running play tetris icon
  • play tetris animated buddy icon 8-bit pixel art
  • tetris game reference yellow running character
  • aol instant messenger play tetris icon
  • low resolution play tetris animation frames

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 5x4 layout showing sampled frame count of 20
  • sourceFrameCount indicates total animation frames may be higher than visible samples
  • gray background is display context for transparency
  • pixelated rendering consistent with early internet graphics

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation with no nudity or violent content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'badass buddy icons' and 'play tetris buddy icon', indicating this was likely a custom animated buddy icon for AOL Instant Messenger related to Tetris gameplay

Visible Text

  • _Play Tetris_

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tetris game reference (via text)
  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon context (implied by format)

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure running
  • white smoke trails
  • pixelated animation frames
  • gray background
  • _Play Tetris_ text repeated
  • simple black outlines
  • motion progression sequence
  • 5x4 contact sheet layout
  • frame-to-frame pose changes
  • running posture with arms swinging
  • legs extended in motion
  • small puffs of white dust
  • diffuse smoke clouds behind figure
  • low-resolution 8-bit graphics
  • pixelated font style
  • horizontal text repetition
  • character design simplicity
  • progressive speed indication
  • black outline details
  • white smoke trails on gray

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / play tetris buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 23:59 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
14.5 KB
Motion
Animated (20 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a52e1ce06dd80998e217f913d7c652f24a20b713ce3353581b7ce949830f8cff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
a52e1ce06dd80998
SHA-256
a52e1ce06dd80998e217f913d7c652f24a20b713ce3353581b7ce949830f8cff
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107056

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910931onnx/unsafe0.107056onnx/nsfw0.066972onnx/nsfl0.040084
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
21
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

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure running with white smoke trails, repeated across 20 frames showing motion progression on gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
6,330 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,214, response 1,281

Review tags

  • gray background (color, 1.00)
  • horizontal text repetition (text, 1.00)
  • play tetris text (text, 1.00)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • running character animation (action, 0.90)
  • white smoke trails (object, 0.90)
  • low resolution animation (style, 0.90)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.85)
  • simple cartoon style (style, 0.85)

Actions

  • running
  • smoke trail generation

Animation

  • frame-to-frame pose changes from upright to running stance
  • increasing smoke trail density and size
  • progressive motion indication through posture shifts

Animation Summary

20-frame contact sheet showing yellow stick figure running with increasing smoke trails, progressing from upright stance to full sprint across sequential frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • 5x4 grid layout
  • horizontal text repetition below frames
  • uniform spacing between elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x4 grid of animated frames (totaling 20 visible samples) against a solid light gray background. Each frame features a small yellow stick-figure character in various stages of movement, accompanied by white smoke or dust trails indicating motion. The figure has a simple design with black outlines and appears to be running or sprinting. In the top-left frames, the figure is upright with minimal smoke; as the sequence progresses rightward and downward, the smoke trails become more prominent and dynamic, showing increasing speed or energy. The text "_Play Tetris_" repeats horizontally across each row beneath the animation frames in a pixelated white font. The character's pose shifts incrementally between frames: initial upright stance evolves into forward-leaning running posture with arms swinging and legs extended. Smoke trails vary from small puffs to larger, more diffuse clouds behind the figure. All elements are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style typical of early internet graphics, with visible pixelation and limited color palette (yellow, black, white, gray).

Description

Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure running with white smoke trails, repeated across 20 frames showing motion progression on gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Play Tetris Buddy | basis both | confidence high | evidence repeated text and gaming motion animation

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons collection
  • play tetris buddy icon name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • the repeated "_Play Tetris_" text directly supports the play tetris connection
  • the running character animation visually aligns with active gaming motion

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic
  • retro gaming

Named Entities

  • Play Tetris

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure running play tetris icon
  • play tetris animated buddy icon 8-bit pixel art
  • tetris game reference yellow running character
  • aol instant messenger play tetris icon
  • low resolution play tetris animation frames

Objects

  • white smoke trails
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 5x4 layout showing sampled frame count of 20
  • sourceFrameCount indicates total animation frames may be higher than visible samples
  • gray background is display context for transparency
  • pixelated rendering consistent with early internet graphics

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation with no nudity or violent content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'badass buddy icons' and 'play tetris buddy icon', indicating this was likely a custom animated buddy icon for AOL Instant Messenger related to Tetris gameplay

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • simple cartoon style

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure character

Visible Text

  • _Play Tetris_

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tetris game reference (via text)
  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon context (implied by format)

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure running
  • white smoke trails
  • pixelated animation frames
  • gray background
  • _Play Tetris_ text repeated
  • simple black outlines
  • motion progression sequence
  • 5x4 contact sheet layout
  • frame-to-frame pose changes
  • running posture with arms swinging
  • legs extended in motion
  • small puffs of white dust
  • diffuse smoke clouds behind figure
  • low-resolution 8-bit graphics
  • pixelated font style
  • horizontal text repetition
  • character design simplicity
  • progressive speed indication
  • black outline details
  • white smoke trails on gray
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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 / play tetris buddy icon
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 23:59 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons