Animated contact sheet of 18 frames showing two pixel-art characters in red and green shirts with white faces, displaying various poses including talking bubbles and hand gestures against a gray background.

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Animated contact sheet of 18 frames showing two pixel-art characters in red and green shirts with white faces, displaying various poses including talking bubbles and hand gestures against a gray background.

Animated contact sheet of 18 frames showing two pixel-art characters in red and green shirts with white faces, displaying various poses including talking bubbles and hand gestures…

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Animation

  • hand raised in some frames
  • speech bubble text changes between frames
  • subtle pose variations across 18 frames

Animation Summary

18-frame animation showing two pixel-art characters with red/green shirts displaying subtle pose variations including hand gestures and changing speech bubble text ("SLUG EUG," "YELLOW," "RED") across frames.

Composition

  • side-by-side characters
  • centered frame layout
  • text below character pair

Dense Caption

The image displays an animated contact sheet containing 18 distinct frames arranged in a 5x4 grid (with the last row having only three frames). Each frame features two identical pixel-art characters positioned side-by-side. The character on the left wears a red shirt with white facial features and black eyes, while the character on the right wears a green shirt with similar white facial features and black eyes. Both characters have simple circular heads with minimalistic expressions. In some frames, speech bubbles appear above their heads containing text such as "SLUG EUG," "YELLOW," and "RED." The characters exhibit subtle pose variations across frames: in certain positions the left character raises its right hand (appearing to wave or gesture), while other frames show both characters with hands at their sides. All frames share a consistent gray background that appears transparent, typical of AIM buddy icons. The animation sequence shows minimal motion changes between frames, primarily involving slight shifts in posture and speech bubble text. Each frame is labeled below with the text "Slug Bug" in white pixelated font. The overall style is retro 8-bit pixel art with limited color palette (red, green, white, black, gray) and blocky rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Animated contact sheet of 18 frames showing two pixel-art characters in red and green shirts with white faces, displaying various poses including talking bubbles and hand gestures against a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Slug Bug | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "Slug Bug" text label and consistent character design across frames

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icon category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Slug Bug" text label matches source hint name
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM buddy icons

Named Entities

  • Slug Bug
  • SLUG EUG
  • YELLOW
  • RED

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • slug bug pixel art animation
  • red green character buddy icon
  • 8-bit slug bug speech bubble frames
  • yellow red text slug bug animation
  • slugs bug 18 frame contact sheet

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 5x4 grid (last row has 3 frames)
  • sampled from animated icon source
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • 1280x1024 review image size
  • 18 sampled frames visible in contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon characters with simple expressions, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Slug Bug
  • SLUG EUG
  • YELLOW
  • RED

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Slug Bug" character names (text)
  • 8-bit animation style

Wordwall

  • two pixel-art characters
  • red shirt character
  • green shirt character
  • white facial features
  • black eyes
  • gray background
  • speech bubble text
  • "SLUG EUG" speech bubble
  • "YELLOW" speech bubble
  • "RED" speech bubble
  • hand raised gesture
  • both characters side-by-side
  • "Slug Bug" label below
  • 8-bit pixel art style
  • limited color palette
  • blocky rendering
  • minimalistic expression
  • transparent background
  • gray transparency grid
  • frame-to-frame pose variation
  • text "SLUG EUG" in bubbles
  • text "YELLOW" in bubbles
  • text "RED" in bubbles
  • red shirt character left
  • green shirt character right
  • white text label below
  • pixelated font style
  • simple circular heads
  • black eye details

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / slug bug buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:11 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
15.9 KB
Motion
Animated (18 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8e22469a8aa0ad31cfe6c77ffcc7dfa9e6e1d5f536cb9ef192cafc7c4c75bfdb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
8e22469a8aa0ad31
SHA-256
8e22469a8aa0ad31cfe6c77ffcc7dfa9e6e1d5f536cb9ef192cafc7c4c75bfdb
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083588

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919556onnx/unsafe0.083588onnx/nsfw0.044657onnx/nsfl0.038931
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:41 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 18 frames showing two pixel-art characters in red and green shirts with white faces, displaying various poses including talking bubbles and hand gestures against a gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
7,462 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,201, response 1,382

Review tags

  • 8 bit animation (style, 0.95)
  • green shirted character (subject, 0.95)
  • pixel art characters (subject, 0.95)
  • red shirted character (subject, 0.95)
  • red text (text, 0.95)
  • slug bug label (text, 0.95)
  • slug eug text (text, 0.95)
  • yellow text (text, 0.95)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.90)
  • speech bubbles (object, 0.90)
  • retro digital graphics (style, 0.90)
  • hand raised gesture (action, 0.85)
  • pose variation (animation, 0.85)

Actions

  • hand raised gesture
  • speech bubble appearance
  • pose variation between frames

Animation

  • hand raised in some frames
  • speech bubble text changes between frames
  • subtle pose variations across 18 frames

Animation Summary

18-frame animation showing two pixel-art characters with red/green shirts displaying subtle pose variations including hand gestures and changing speech bubble text ("SLUG EUG," "YELLOW," "RED") across frames.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • side-by-side characters
  • centered frame layout
  • text below character pair

Dense Caption

The image displays an animated contact sheet containing 18 distinct frames arranged in a 5x4 grid (with the last row having only three frames). Each frame features two identical pixel-art characters positioned side-by-side. The character on the left wears a red shirt with white facial features and black eyes, while the character on the right wears a green shirt with similar white facial features and black eyes. Both characters have simple circular heads with minimalistic expressions. In some frames, speech bubbles appear above their heads containing text such as "SLUG EUG," "YELLOW," and "RED." The characters exhibit subtle pose variations across frames: in certain positions the left character raises its right hand (appearing to wave or gesture), while other frames show both characters with hands at their sides. All frames share a consistent gray background that appears transparent, typical of AIM buddy icons. The animation sequence shows minimal motion changes between frames, primarily involving slight shifts in posture and speech bubble text. Each frame is labeled below with the text "Slug Bug" in white pixelated font. The overall style is retro 8-bit pixel art with limited color palette (red, green, white, black, gray) and blocky rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Animated contact sheet of 18 frames showing two pixel-art characters in red and green shirts with white faces, displaying various poses including talking bubbles and hand gestures against a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Slug Bug | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "Slug Bug" text label and consistent character design across frames

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icon category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Slug Bug" text label matches source hint name
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM buddy icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • simple

Named Entities

  • Slug Bug
  • SLUG EUG
  • YELLOW
  • RED

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • slug bug pixel art animation
  • red green character buddy icon
  • 8-bit slug bug speech bubble frames
  • yellow red text slug bug animation
  • slugs bug 18 frame contact sheet

Objects

  • speech bubbles
  • "Slug Bug" text label

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 5x4 grid (last row has 3 frames)
  • sampled from animated icon source
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • 1280x1024 review image size
  • 18 sampled frames visible in contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon characters with simple expressions, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro digital graphics
  • blocky rendering
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • two pixel-art characters
  • red-shirted character
  • green-shirted character

Visible Text

  • Slug Bug
  • SLUG EUG
  • YELLOW
  • RED

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Slug Bug" character names (text)
  • 8-bit animation style

Wordwall

  • two pixel-art characters
  • red shirt character
  • green shirt character
  • white facial features
  • black eyes
  • gray background
  • speech bubble text
  • "SLUG EUG" speech bubble
  • "YELLOW" speech bubble
  • "RED" speech bubble
  • hand raised gesture
  • both characters side-by-side
  • "Slug Bug" label below
  • 8-bit pixel art style
  • limited color palette
  • blocky rendering
  • minimalistic expression
  • transparent background
  • gray transparency grid
  • frame-to-frame pose variation
  • text "SLUG EUG" in bubbles
  • text "YELLOW" in bubbles
  • text "RED" in bubbles
  • red shirt character left
  • green shirt character right
  • white text label below
  • pixelated font style
  • simple circular heads
  • black eye details
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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 / slug bug buddy icon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:11 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons