A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a cartoon animation sequence with two characters at a table, where one character repeatedly punches the other's face while text below reads "Spike Punch" in each frame.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a cartoon animation sequence with two characters at a table, where one character repeatedly punches the other's face while text below reads "Spike Punch" in each frame.

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a cartoon animation sequence with two characters at a table, where one character repeatedly punches the other's face while text bel…

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Animation

frame 0: skull character punching brown-haired character's face; frame 1: both characters sitting still at table; alternating pattern repeats across all frames

Animation Summary

A 12-frame pixel art animation cycles between a skull character punching a brown-haired character's face and both characters sitting still at a table, with "Spike Punch" text below each frame.

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • centered characters
  • text below each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame shows a pixelated scene featuring two cartoon characters seated at a white table with blue and pink accents. On the left, a character with a skull-like head (white face, black eye sockets) wears a yellow shirt and holds a brown object resembling a bottle or cup. To their right sits another character with brown hair, green eyes, red top, and blue pants. In alternating frames, the skull character extends an arm to punch the other character's face; in non-punching frames, both characters sit still at the table. Below each frame, white text reads "Spike Punch" on a gray background. The animation cycles through punching and resting states across 12 visible frames. Pixel art style uses limited colors with dithering for shading. Background is solid light gray indicating transparency in original icon.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a cartoon animation sequence with two characters at a table, where one character repeatedly punches the other's face while text below reads "Spike Punch" in each frame.

Fandoms

  • AIM buddy icon culture

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Spike Punch character","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"text below each frame matches name"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text "Spike Punch" appears below each frame
  • pixel art style matches typical AIM buddy icon aesthetics

Named Entities

  • {"name":"Spike Punch","basis":"visible","confidence":1.0}

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spike punch buddy icon
  • pixel art animation spike punch
  • aim buddy icon 12 frame contact sheet
  • skull character punching face pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 12 sampled animation frames (4x3 layout)
  • gray background indicates transparency in original icon
  • sourceFrameCount is 12, matching sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon violence; no nudity or graphic gore

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hint "wayback-badassbuddy-gifs" suggests a collection of animated buddy icons; category hints indicate this is part of the "badass buddy icons" series with "spike punch" as the specific icon name

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • Spike Punch

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon animation
  • 8-bit cartoon characters

Wordwall

  • pixel art animation
  • 4x3 contact sheet
  • skull character
  • brown-haired character
  • white table
  • blue accents
  • pink accents
  • yellow shirt
  • red top
  • blue pants
  • punching motion
  • face punch
  • text Spike Punch
  • gray background
  • dithered shading
  • alternating frames
  • static characters
  • table with blue and pink details
  • character expressions unchanged
  • pixelated rendering
  • 12 visible frames

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / spike punch buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:12 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
16.4 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8aeef0d036d5f394d3ccf3f12814141f4af8681fee4717044d47a5f17c796fcb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
8aeef0d036d5f394
SHA-256
8aeef0d036d5f394d3ccf3f12814141f4af8681fee4717044d47a5f17c796fcb
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 10:23 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087144

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914501onnx/unsafe0.087144onnx/nsfw0.045734onnx/nsfl0.041409
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

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

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a cartoon animation sequence with two characters at a table, where one character repeatedly punches the other's face while text below reads "Spike Punch" in each frame.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
14,882 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,944, response 1,308

Review tags

  • text spike punch (text, 1.00)
  • punching motion (action, 0.98)
  • pixel art (style, 0.98)
  • 8 bit style (style, 0.97)
  • gray background (color, 0.95)
  • contact sheet (medium, 0.95)
  • table with blue accents (object, 0.95)
  • brown haired character (subject, 0.95)
  • skull character (subject, 0.95)
  • spike punch (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow shirt (subject, 0.95)

Actions

  • punching face
  • sitting at table

Animation

frame 0: skull character punching brown-haired character's face; frame 1: both characters sitting still at table; alternating pattern repeats across all frames

Animation Summary

A 12-frame pixel art animation cycles between a skull character punching a brown-haired character's face and both characters sitting still at a table, with "Spike Punch" text below each frame.

Colors

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

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • centered characters
  • text below each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame shows a pixelated scene featuring two cartoon characters seated at a white table with blue and pink accents. On the left, a character with a skull-like head (white face, black eye sockets) wears a yellow shirt and holds a brown object resembling a bottle or cup. To their right sits another character with brown hair, green eyes, red top, and blue pants. In alternating frames, the skull character extends an arm to punch the other character's face; in non-punching frames, both characters sit still at the table. Below each frame, white text reads "Spike Punch" on a gray background. The animation cycles through punching and resting states across 12 visible frames. Pixel art style uses limited colors with dithering for shading. Background is solid light gray indicating transparency in original icon.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a cartoon animation sequence with two characters at a table, where one character repeatedly punches the other's face while text below reads "Spike Punch" in each frame.

Fandoms

  • AIM buddy icon culture

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Spike Punch character","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"text below each frame matches name"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text "Spike Punch" appears below each frame
  • pixel art style matches typical AIM buddy icon aesthetics

Mood

  • playful
  • cartoonish
  • repetitive

Named Entities

  • {"name":"Spike Punch","basis":"visible","confidence":1.0}

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spike punch buddy icon
  • pixel art animation spike punch
  • aim buddy icon 12 frame contact sheet
  • skull character punching face pixel art

Objects

  • white table with blue and pink details
  • yellow-shirted bottle/cup

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 12 sampled animation frames (4x3 layout)
  • gray background indicates transparency in original icon
  • sourceFrameCount is 12, matching sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon violence; no nudity or graphic gore

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hint "wayback-badassbuddy-gifs" suggests a collection of animated buddy icons; category hints indicate this is part of the "badass buddy icons" series with "spike punch" as the specific icon name

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • dithered shading

Subjects

  • skull character
  • brown-haired character

Visible Text

  • Spike Punch

Visually Supported Entities

  • AIM buddy icon animation
  • 8-bit cartoon characters

Wordwall

  • pixel art animation
  • 4x3 contact sheet
  • skull character
  • brown-haired character
  • white table
  • blue accents
  • pink accents
  • yellow shirt
  • red top
  • blue pants
  • punching motion
  • face punch
  • text Spike Punch
  • gray background
  • dithered shading
  • alternating frames
  • static characters
  • table with blue and pink details
  • character expressions unchanged
  • pixelated rendering
  • 12 visible frames
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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 / spike punch buddy icon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:12 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons