Animated contact sheet of pixel art characters in yellow and blue outfits with white helmets, showing sequential motion frames on a gray background.

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Animated contact sheet of pixel art characters in yellow and blue outfits with white helmets, showing sequential motion frames on a gray background.

Animated contact sheet of pixel art characters in yellow and blue outfits with white helmets, showing sequential motion frames on a gray background. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Animation

  • frame 0: standing side-by-side
  • frame 1: turning toward each other
  • frame 2: embracing
  • frame 3: interacting with small object
  • frame 4: arm movements changing
  • frame 5: facial expressions varying
  • subsequent frames show continued motion sequence

Animation Summary

22-frame pixel animation showing two helmeted cartoon characters interacting through sequential motion including standing side-by-side, turning toward each other, embracing, and small object interaction.

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet layout
  • individual frames on gray background
  • character-centered framing

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. Each frame features two pixelated characters: one with blonde hair wearing a yellow outfit and another with dark hair wearing a blue outfit, both donning white helmets. The characters appear to be engaged in sequential motion across the frames, including standing side-by-side, turning toward each other, embracing, and interacting with small objects. The animation shows subtle pose changes between frames, such as shifting positions, changing arm movements, and varying facial expressions (e.g., smiling or neutral). All icons are displayed on a solid gray background typical of AIM contact sheet previews. Each frame is labeled "Player" in white text beneath the characters. The pixel art style uses limited colors with visible dithering effects for shading, characteristic of early 2000s digital animation. The frames collectively depict a short sequence showing character interaction and movement without explicit action or narrative context.

Description

Animated contact sheet of pixel art characters in yellow and blue outfits with white helmets, showing sequential motion frames on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Player | basis metadata-compatible | confidence high | evidence "Player" text in all frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "badass" descriptor not visually supported by character design or animation style
  • "player" name may refer to game context but is only confirmed as text label

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • player buddy icon (as category)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Player" text label visible in all frames

Named Entities

  • Player

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow blue helmeted pixel art characters "Player" text animation frame
  • AIM buddy icon animated contact sheet 22 frames
  • pixel art yellow and blue cartoon characters sequential motion

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 22
  • source frame count 22
  • gray background for transparency display
  • review image size 1280x1280 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation with friendly character interactions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Player

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon animation frame
  • pixel art cartoon characters

Wordwall

  • yellow helmeted character
  • blue helmeted character
  • blonde hair
  • dark hair
  • white helmets
  • yellow outfit
  • blue outfit
  • pixel art style
  • gray background
  • "Player" text
  • sequential motion frames
  • side-by-side pose
  • embrace pose
  • facial expressions
  • arm movements
  • small object interaction
  • dithering shading
  • limited color palette
  • character interaction
  • standing position
  • turning toward each other
  • smiling face
  • neutral expression
  • frame-to-frame changes
  • gray transparency background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / player 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
17.3 KB
Motion
Animated (22 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/2f/2f20904a1fa36109d79214504281b86131c302645509ec5f90c69613ef6c6ecf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
2f20904a1fa36109
SHA-256
2f20904a1fa36109d79214504281b86131c302645509ec5f90c69613ef6c6ecf
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085389

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924586onnx/unsafe0.085389onnx/nsfw0.044635onnx/nsfl0.040754
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 07:22 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 pixel art characters in yellow and blue outfits with white helmets, showing sequential motion frames on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
8,544 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,541, response 1,134

Review tags

  • player text label (text, 1.00)
  • blue helmeted character (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow helmeted character (subject, 0.95)
  • sequential motion frames (animation, 0.90)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.90)
  • embrace pose (action, 0.85)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.85)
  • dithered shading (rendering, 0.80)
  • small object interaction (action, 0.75)

Actions

  • standing side-by-side
  • turning toward each other
  • embrace
  • interacting with small objects
  • changing arm movements
  • varying facial expressions

Animation

  • frame 0: standing side-by-side
  • frame 1: turning toward each other
  • frame 2: embracing
  • frame 3: interacting with small object
  • frame 4: arm movements changing
  • frame 5: facial expressions varying
  • subsequent frames show continued motion sequence

Animation Summary

22-frame pixel animation showing two helmeted cartoon characters interacting through sequential motion including standing side-by-side, turning toward each other, embracing, and small object interaction.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet layout
  • individual frames on gray background
  • character-centered framing

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. Each frame features two pixelated characters: one with blonde hair wearing a yellow outfit and another with dark hair wearing a blue outfit, both donning white helmets. The characters appear to be engaged in sequential motion across the frames, including standing side-by-side, turning toward each other, embracing, and interacting with small objects. The animation shows subtle pose changes between frames, such as shifting positions, changing arm movements, and varying facial expressions (e.g., smiling or neutral). All icons are displayed on a solid gray background typical of AIM contact sheet previews. Each frame is labeled "Player" in white text beneath the characters. The pixel art style uses limited colors with visible dithering effects for shading, characteristic of early 2000s digital animation. The frames collectively depict a short sequence showing character interaction and movement without explicit action or narrative context.

Description

Animated contact sheet of pixel art characters in yellow and blue outfits with white helmets, showing sequential motion frames on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Player | basis metadata-compatible | confidence high | evidence "Player" text in all frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "badass" descriptor not visually supported by character design or animation style
  • "player" name may refer to game context but is only confirmed as text label

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • player buddy icon (as category)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Player" text label visible in all frames

Mood

  • playful
  • friendly
  • cartoonish

Named Entities

  • Player

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow blue helmeted pixel art characters "Player" text animation frame
  • AIM buddy icon animated contact sheet 22 frames
  • pixel art yellow and blue cartoon characters sequential motion

Objects

  • small object (unidentifiable)

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 22
  • source frame count 22
  • gray background for transparency display
  • review image size 1280x1280 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation with friendly character interactions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • dithered shading

Subjects

  • yellow helmeted character
  • blue helmeted character

Visible Text

  • Player

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon animation frame
  • pixel art cartoon characters

Wordwall

  • yellow helmeted character
  • blue helmeted character
  • blonde hair
  • dark hair
  • white helmets
  • yellow outfit
  • blue outfit
  • pixel art style
  • gray background
  • "Player" text
  • sequential motion frames
  • side-by-side pose
  • embrace pose
  • facial expressions
  • arm movements
  • small object interaction
  • dithering shading
  • limited color palette
  • character interaction
  • standing position
  • turning toward each other
  • smiling face
  • neutral expression
  • frame-to-frame changes
  • gray transparency background
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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 / player 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