Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing a character interacting with pop-up windows, including text changes and motion effects across 25 sampled frames.

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Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing a character interacting with pop-up windows, including text changes and motion effects across 25 sampled frames.

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing a character interacting with pop-up windows, including text changes and motion effects across 25 sampled frames. Animated…

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Animation

  • frame 0-4: static character with pop-up window
  • frames 5-9: changing pop-up colors/text
  • frames 10-12: arm raising action
  • frames 13-16: object throwing motion
  • frames 17-25: debris scattering effects

Animation Summary

A pixel art animation showing a stick figure interacting with pop-up windows, followed by arm-raising motion, object throwing action, and debris scattering effects across multiple frames.

Composition

  • central character focus
  • top rows for text windows
  • bottom rows for motion effects
  • 5x5 grid layout

Dense Caption

A 5x5 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The central subject is a small white stick figure in red clothing seated at a brown desk with a black computer monitor. In the top rows, multiple pop-up windows appear on screen displaying text like 'FREE' and '$$$', while later frames show changing window colors (blue and pink) with 'X10' or 'X10E' text. The bottom rows depict motion effects: the stick figure's arm moves from resting to raising a black object, then to throwing it, followed by scattered debris particles. All icons have gray transparent backgrounds typical of AIM buddy icons. The animation progresses through window interactions and physical actions with consistent pixel art style throughout.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing a character interacting with pop-up windows, including text changes and motion effects across 25 sampled frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Popups Suck | basis both | confidence 0.95 | evidence visible text and source hint

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • popups suck buddy icon

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'Popups Suck' text visible in caption below each frame

Named Entities

  • Popups Suck

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • popups suck buddy icon
  • pixel art computer animation
  • aol instant messenger pop-up windows
  • red stick figure throwing object
  • gray background transparent icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 25 from source frame count 26
  • gray transparency background for all frames
  • frame order left-to-right then top-to-bottom

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • text-based humor only

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Popups Suck
  • FREE
  • $$$
  • X10
  • X10E

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon
  • pixel art animation style

Wordwall

  • white stick figure
  • red clothing
  • brown desk
  • black computer monitor
  • gray transparent background
  • pop-up windows
  • text FREE
  • text $$$
  • text X10
  • text X10E
  • blue pop-up color
  • pink pop-up color
  • arm raising motion
  • object throwing action
  • debris particles
  • pixel art style
  • 5x5 contact sheet
  • 25 sampled frames
  • computer interaction icon
  • animation sequence
  • window text changes
  • red clothing character
  • desk with monitor
  • gray background transparency
  • motion effect animation
  • frame-by-frame change
  • text-based pop-up content

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / popups suck 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
30 KB
Motion
Animated (26 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a44b026e007fd893e1f44581f57bc4fe2234b1c2720b2cb394ad82a89b008b96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
a44b026e007fd893
SHA-256
a44b026e007fd893e1f44581f57bc4fe2234b1c2720b2cb394ad82a89b008b96
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 03:50 UTC
Run
1171
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.009578

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.009578falsesexual0.002945falseviolence0.000515falseself-harm0.000466falseillicit0.000029falsehate0.000028falseviolence/graphic0.000023falsesexual/minors0.000008falseharassment/threatening0.000006falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseillicit/violent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110488

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919071onnx/unsafe0.110488onnx/nsfw0.068779onnx/nsfl0.041709
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 07:31 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 pixel art buddy icon showing a character interacting with pop-up windows, including text changes and motion effects across 25 sampled frames.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
6,735 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,550, response 1,348

Review tags

  • arm raising motion (action, 0.95)
  • object throwing action (action, 0.95)
  • gray transparent background (background, 0.95)
  • blue pop up color (color, 0.95)
  • pink pop up color (color, 0.95)
  • debris scattering (effect, 0.95)
  • computer monitor (object, 0.95)
  • pop up windows (object, 0.95)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • stick figure character (subject, 0.95)
  • text (text, 0.95)
  • text free (text, 0.95)
  • text x10 (text, 0.95)
  • text x10e (text, 0.95)

Actions

  • interacting with computer
  • window text changes
  • arm raising motion
  • object throwing action
  • debris scattering

Animation

  • frame 0-4: static character with pop-up window
  • frames 5-9: changing pop-up colors/text
  • frames 10-12: arm raising action
  • frames 13-16: object throwing motion
  • frames 17-25: debris scattering effects

Animation Summary

A pixel art animation showing a stick figure interacting with pop-up windows, followed by arm-raising motion, object throwing action, and debris scattering effects across multiple frames.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • central character focus
  • top rows for text windows
  • bottom rows for motion effects
  • 5x5 grid layout

Dense Caption

A 5x5 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The central subject is a small white stick figure in red clothing seated at a brown desk with a black computer monitor. In the top rows, multiple pop-up windows appear on screen displaying text like 'FREE' and '$$$', while later frames show changing window colors (blue and pink) with 'X10' or 'X10E' text. The bottom rows depict motion effects: the stick figure's arm moves from resting to raising a black object, then to throwing it, followed by scattered debris particles. All icons have gray transparent backgrounds typical of AIM buddy icons. The animation progresses through window interactions and physical actions with consistent pixel art style throughout.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixel art buddy icon showing a character interacting with pop-up windows, including text changes and motion effects across 25 sampled frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Popups Suck | basis both | confidence 0.95 | evidence visible text and source hint

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • popups suck buddy icon

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'Popups Suck' text visible in caption below each frame

Mood

  • playful
  • tech-focused
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • Popups Suck

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • popups suck buddy icon
  • pixel art computer animation
  • aol instant messenger pop-up windows
  • red stick figure throwing object
  • gray background transparent icon

Objects

  • brown desk
  • black computer monitor
  • blue pop-up window
  • pink pop-up window
  • throwing object
  • debris particles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 25 from source frame count 26
  • gray transparency background for all frames
  • frame order left-to-right then top-to-bottom

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • text-based humor only

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • AOL IM buddy icon style

Subjects

  • white stick figure
  • computer monitor
  • pop-up windows

Visible Text

  • Popups Suck
  • FREE
  • $$$
  • X10
  • X10E

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon
  • pixel art animation style

Wordwall

  • white stick figure
  • red clothing
  • brown desk
  • black computer monitor
  • gray transparent background
  • pop-up windows
  • text FREE
  • text $$$
  • text X10
  • text X10E
  • blue pop-up color
  • pink pop-up color
  • arm raising motion
  • object throwing action
  • debris particles
  • pixel art style
  • 5x5 contact sheet
  • 25 sampled frames
  • computer interaction icon
  • animation sequence
  • window text changes
  • red clothing character
  • desk with monitor
  • gray background transparency
  • motion effect animation
  • frame-by-frame change
  • text-based pop-up content
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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 / popups suck 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