Animated contact sheet of a rubber duck icon showing sequential frames with text bubbles and character interactions on gray background.

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Animated contact sheet of a rubber duck icon showing sequential frames with text bubbles and character interactions on gray background.

Animated contact sheet of a rubber duck icon showing sequential frames with text bubbles and character interactions on gray background. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayb…

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Animation

frame 0-3: standing next to duck; frame 4-7: holding duck; frame 8-11: text bubble "RUBBER" appears; frame 12-14: text bubble "DUCKY?" then "YOU'RE THE ONE!" appear with stick figure holding duck

Animation Summary

Sequential animation showing stick figure interacting with yellow rubber duck across 15 frames, featuring text bubble changes from "RUBBER" to "DUCKY?" then "YOU'RE THE ONE!"

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet layout with sequential animation frames

Dense Caption

A 4x4 grid contact sheet displays 15 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon featuring a yellow rubber duck. The animation sequence shows a white stick figure interacting with the duck across multiple states: initially standing beside it, then holding it, and finally speaking through text bubbles. Visible elements include a gray background with blue water-like horizontal bands separating rows of frames. The duck is consistently yellow with an orange beak and black eyes. Text bubbles appear in later frames containing "RUBBER," "DUCKY?" (with question mark), "YOU'RE," and "THE ONE!" in white pixelated font on dark backgrounds. Frame-by-frame changes show the stick figure's position shifting from standing to holding the duck, with subtle pose adjustments across sampled frames. The animation maintains consistent color scheme of yellow, blue, gray, and white throughout all 15 visible frames.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet of a rubber duck icon showing sequential frames with text bubbles and character interactions on gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"Rubber Duck Buddy Icon","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"yellow rubber duck character with text bubbles matching source hint"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • rubber duck character name
  • text bubble content "RUBBER" and "THE ONE!"

Named Entities

  • Rubber Duck

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rubber duck buddy icon animation
  • yellow rubber duck text bubble frames
  • stick figure holding rubber duck
  • text bubble RUBBER DUCKY THE ONE
  • 4x4 contact sheet rubber duck animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4, sampledFrameCount 15, sourceFrameCount 15, reviewImagePixels 1024x1024, gray transparency background

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon content with playful text bubbles

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Rubber Duck
  • RUBBER
  • DUCKY?
  • YOU'RE
  • THE ONE!

Visually Supported Entities

  • rubber duck mascot

Wordwall

  • yellow rubber duck
  • white stick figure character
  • gray background
  • blue water bands
  • text bubble "RUBBER"
  • text bubble "DUCKY?"
  • text bubble "YOU'RE"
  • text bubble "THE ONE!"
  • pixelated font text bubbles
  • duck with orange beak
  • black eye on duck
  • stick figure holding duck
  • stick figure standing next to duck
  • sequential animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • gray transparency background
  • blue horizontal bands
  • yellow duck running pose
  • white stick figure stirring pan
  • text bubble question mark
  • text bubble exclamation point

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / rubber duck buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:01 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
14.2 KB
Motion
Animated (15 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e9709e588f3cdb38b3a09e6d1094548bfba8d1a411a88330e0dab51b67db7c43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
e9709e588f3cdb38
SHA-256
e9709e588f3cdb38b3a09e6d1094548bfba8d1a411a88330e0dab51b67db7c43
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 05:48 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000778

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000778falseviolence0.000487falseself-harm0.000457falseharassment0.000050falseviolence/graphic0.000010falsehate0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseillicit0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:32 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092981

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915550onnx/unsafe0.092981onnx/nsfw0.054402onnx/nsfl0.038580
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:23 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.900000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated contact sheet of a rubber duck icon showing sequential frames with text bubbles and character interactions on gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:23 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
8,422 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,942, response 1,173

Review tags

  • rubber duck mascot (subject, 0.95)
  • text bubble animation (animation, 0.90)
  • 4x4 contact sheet (composition, 0.90)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • yellow duck running pose (subject, 0.90)
  • text bubble exclamation point (text, 0.90)
  • text bubble question mark (text, 0.90)
  • stick figure interaction (action, 0.85)
  • blue water bands (color, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing next to object
  • holding object
  • speaking through text bubbles
  • running pose (duck)
  • text bubble appearance

Animation

frame 0-3: standing next to duck; frame 4-7: holding duck; frame 8-11: text bubble "RUBBER" appears; frame 12-14: text bubble "DUCKY?" then "YOU'RE THE ONE!" appear with stick figure holding duck

Animation Summary

Sequential animation showing stick figure interacting with yellow rubber duck across 15 frames, featuring text bubble changes from "RUBBER" to "DUCKY?" then "YOU'RE THE ONE!"

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • orange
  • black

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet layout with sequential animation frames

Dense Caption

A 4x4 grid contact sheet displays 15 animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon featuring a yellow rubber duck. The animation sequence shows a white stick figure interacting with the duck across multiple states: initially standing beside it, then holding it, and finally speaking through text bubbles. Visible elements include a gray background with blue water-like horizontal bands separating rows of frames. The duck is consistently yellow with an orange beak and black eyes. Text bubbles appear in later frames containing "RUBBER," "DUCKY?" (with question mark), "YOU'RE," and "THE ONE!" in white pixelated font on dark backgrounds. Frame-by-frame changes show the stick figure's position shifting from standing to holding the duck, with subtle pose adjustments across sampled frames. The animation maintains consistent color scheme of yellow, blue, gray, and white throughout all 15 visible frames.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet of a rubber duck icon showing sequential frames with text bubbles and character interactions on gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"Rubber Duck Buddy Icon","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"yellow rubber duck character with text bubbles matching source hint"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • rubber duck character name
  • text bubble content "RUBBER" and "THE ONE!"

Mood

  • playful

Named Entities

  • Rubber Duck

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rubber duck buddy icon animation
  • yellow rubber duck text bubble frames
  • stick figure holding rubber duck
  • text bubble RUBBER DUCKY THE ONE
  • 4x4 contact sheet rubber duck animation

Objects

  • text bubble
  • rubber duck

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4, sampledFrameCount 15, sourceFrameCount 15, reviewImagePixels 1024x1024, gray transparency background

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon content with playful text bubbles

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • yellow rubber duck
  • white stick figure character

Visible Text

  • Rubber Duck
  • RUBBER
  • DUCKY?
  • YOU'RE
  • THE ONE!

Visually Supported Entities

  • rubber duck mascot

Wordwall

  • yellow rubber duck
  • white stick figure character
  • gray background
  • blue water bands
  • text bubble "RUBBER"
  • text bubble "DUCKY?"
  • text bubble "YOU'RE"
  • text bubble "THE ONE!"
  • pixelated font text bubbles
  • duck with orange beak
  • black eye on duck
  • stick figure holding duck
  • stick figure standing next to duck
  • sequential animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • gray transparency background
  • blue horizontal bands
  • yellow duck running pose
  • white stick figure stirring pan
  • text bubble question mark
  • text bubble exclamation point
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencebadass buddy icons0.80wayback-badassbuddy-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · curated-homogeneous · observation-categoryrubber duck buddy icon0.80wayback-badassbuddy-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · curated-homogeneous · observation-category
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 / rubber duck buddy icon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:01 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons