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Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure character with white head and gray shark fins, labeled "Shark Bait" across multiple frames showing sequential motion cycles.
Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure character with white head and gray shark fins, labeled "Shark Bait" across multiple frames showing sequential motion cycles. Animat…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GIF Captures
- Source title
- sharkbait
- Category
- icns / character / sharkbait
- Era
- Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 00:40 UTC
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
- Source title
- 563
- Category
- img / icon
- Era
- Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 00:49 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 50×50 pixels
- File size
- 5.6 KB
- Motion
- Animated (16 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/e1/e18f89182fe50fae0b3f02dd2164a1fe8a12da1786e130d325ac6c1124a3fa4f.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
- Archive ID
- e18f89182fe50fae
- SHA-256
- e18f89182fe50fae0b3f02dd2164a1fe8a12da1786e130d325ac6c1124a3fa4f
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.105448
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 10, 2026 at 11:13 UTC
- Run
- 21
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure character with white head and gray shark fins, labeled "Shark Bait" across multiple frames showing sequential motion cycles.
- Reviewed
- July 10, 2026 at 11:13 UTC
- Run
- 21
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 8,970 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,955, response 1,255
Review tags
- shark bait text (text, 1.00)
- underlined text underline (text, 1.00)
- pixelated animation (style, 0.95)
- white circular head (subject, 0.95)
- yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
- 4x4 contact sheet (composition, 0.90)
- gray shark fins (object, 0.90)
- retro pixel art style (style, 0.90)
- sequential motion cycles (animation, 0.85)
Actions
- arms outstretched
- arms raised
- arms bent
- shark fin appearance/disappearance
Animation
- arms move from outstretched to raised to bent positions
- shark fins appear/disappear sequentially across frames
- character alternates with shark fin-only frames
Animation Summary
16-frame animation showing yellow stick figure character with white head performing sequential arm movements (outstretched to raised to bent) while gray shark fins appear/disappear in alternating frames, all labeled "Shark Bait" text below each frame.
Colors
- yellow
- white
- gray
Composition
- 4x4 grid layout
- text below each frame
- character centered in frames
Dense Caption
The image displays a 4x4 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon sequence. Each frame features a small pixelated character: a yellow body with rounded arms in various positions (outstretched, raised, or bent), a white circular head, and gray shark fins appearing on the right side of some frames. The text "Shark Bait" appears below each frame in black underlined letters against a light gray background. The animation cycles through different poses: initial frames show the character with arms outstretched next to a fin, followed by frames where the character's arms move upward and then downward while fins appear/disappear sequentially. Some frames include only shark fins without the character visible. The overall style is retro pixel art typical of early 2000s digital graphics, with limited color palette (yellow, white, gray) and blocky rendering. Transparency effects are implied by the light gray background which serves as display context rather than content.
Description
Animated contact sheet of a yellow stick figure character with white head and gray shark fins, labeled "Shark Bait" across multiple frames showing sequential motion cycles.
Identity Hypotheses
- Shark Bait | basis both | confidence high | evidence visible text + shark fins
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- source hint mentions "icns / character / sharkbait" but no additional brand/logo evidence beyond text and simple graphics
Metadata Only Entities
- sharkbait fandom reference
- character name from source hints
Metadata Supported By Image
- "Shark Bait" text is visible in all frames
- gray shark fins appear consistently with the character
Mood
- playful
- cartoonish
Named Entities
- Shark Bait | basis both
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- shark bait yellow stick figure animation
- yellow pixel art shark fins text
- 4x4 contact sheet shark bait frames
- retro animated buddy icon shark bait
Objects
- "Shark Bait" text
- underlined text underline
Preprocessing Notes
- contact sheet contains 16 sampled animation frames (4x4 grid)
- light gray background serves as transparency display context
- source frame count: 16
- sampled frame indices: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon character with playful theme
- text is literal and non-sexual
Source Metadata Interpretation
- non-authoritative source hints suggest "sharkbait" name and category
- hints indicate possible character/fandom reference but lack visual confirmation of specific branding or fandom context
Style
- retro pixel art
- blocky rendering
- low-resolution graphics
Subjects
- yellow stick figure character
- gray shark fins
Visible Text
- Shark Bait
Visually Supported Entities
- shark bait character concept (text-based)
Wordwall
- yellow stick figure
- white circular head
- gray shark fins
- "Shark Bait" text
- underlined text
- pixelated animation
- 4x4 contact sheet
- sequential motion cycles
- arms outstretched pose
- arms raised pose
- arms bent pose
- shark fin appearance/disappearance
- light gray background
- retro pixel art style
- blocky rendering
- limited color palette
- frame-to-frame changes
- character movement cycle
- text below each frame
- underlined text underline
- yellow body with rounded arms
- gray fins on right side
- multiple animation frames visible
Raw JSON
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GIF Captures (wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
- Type
- Wayback historical portal crawl
- Category
- icns / character / sharkbait
- Alt
- sharkbait
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 00:40 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal with category-path icon folders
Original: http://www.buddyicon.org/icns/character/sharkbait.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20031112174417id_/http://www.buddyicon.org:80/icns/character/sharkbait.gif
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
- Type
- Wayback direct native asset enumeration
- Category
- img / icon
- Alt
- 563
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 00:49 UTC
- Rights
- mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/563.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111127172603id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/563.gif