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.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915029onnx/unsafe0.105448onnx/nsfw0.065686onnx/nsfl0.039762
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
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

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

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
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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

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