Animated contact sheet showing a sequence of 10 frames from an AIM buddy icon featuring pixelated characters and boomboxes with "Subs" text beneath each frame.

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Animated contact sheet showing a sequence of 10 frames from an AIM buddy icon featuring pixelated characters and boomboxes with "Subs" text beneath each frame.

Animated contact sheet showing a sequence of 10 frames from an AIM buddy icon featuring pixelated characters and boomboxes with "Subs" text beneath each frame. Animated 96×96 GIF…

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Animation

  • subtle character movement across frames
  • consistent layout structure maintained throughout animation

Animation Summary

10-frame animation showing character movement across frames with consistent layout structure, featuring red/blue stick figures next to silver cars in top row and identical boomboxes below each frame

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • left-to-right frame sequence
  • top row character sequences
  • bottom rows boombox icons

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid contact sheet containing 10 animated frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Each frame shows variations of a pixel-art animation sequence featuring small stick-figure characters in red and blue outfits alongside silver cars with red headlights. The top row includes three character sequences: first a single red figure next to a car, then two figures (blue and red) beside another car, followed by two more figures (blue and red) near the third car. Above these sequences is visible text reading "CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM" in white pixelated letters on a black background. Below each frame is the word "Subs" in gray pixelated font. The lower rows contain identical boombox icons with dual circular speakers, blue top accents, and silver grilles. All frames share a consistent gray background indicating transparency. The animation shows subtle character movements across frames while maintaining the same layout structure throughout.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing a sequence of 10 frames from an AIM buddy icon featuring pixelated characters and boomboxes with "Subs" text beneath each frame.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Subs | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "Subs" text and boombox design

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • subs buddy icon

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Subs" text visible below each frame
  • boombox icons match visual content
  • character sequences match description of "badass buddy" style

Named Entities

  • Subs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art subs buddy icon
  • aol instant messenger boombox animation
  • red blue stick figure cars check out system
  • subscribers boombox pixel art
  • 8-bit character movement animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 10 sampled frames from source animation
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frame count matches sourceFrameCount of 10
  • 4x3 grid layout for contact sheet display

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon characters
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / subs buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM
  • Subs

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • 4x3 contact sheet
  • 10 animated frames
  • red stick figure
  • blue stick figure
  • silver cars with red headlights
  • "CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM" text
  • "Subs" text
  • boombox icons
  • dual circular speakers
  • blue top accents
  • silver grilles
  • gray background transparency
  • character movement animation
  • pixelated font
  • car headlights on
  • text above character sequences
  • text below each frame
  • consistent layout structure
  • frame-to-frame motion changes

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / subs 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
14 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/02/02d4d68024da3e80f077386c9ac2a2e0de6cae451e66698b31d9f7fb25e8892a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
02d4d68024da3e80
SHA-256
02d4d68024da3e80f077386c9ac2a2e0de6cae451e66698b31d9f7fb25e8892a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 10:41 UTC
Run
1179
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000484

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000484falsesexual0.000066falseharassment0.000029falseillicit0.000012falseviolence/graphic0.000006falseself-harm0.000006falsesexual/minors0.000004falsehate0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 04:01 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090127

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919814onnx/unsafe0.090127onnx/nsfw0.049712onnx/nsfl0.040415
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:50 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 showing a sequence of 10 frames from an AIM buddy icon featuring pixelated characters and boomboxes with "Subs" text beneath each frame.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:50 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
19,227 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,938, response 1,203

Review tags

  • 4x3 contact sheet (layout, 0.95)
  • pixel art (subject, 0.95)
  • check out the system text (text, 0.95)
  • subs text (text, 0.95)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.90)
  • blue stick figure (character, 0.90)
  • red stick figure (character, 0.90)
  • boombox icons (object, 0.90)
  • 8 bit style graphics (style, 0.90)
  • character movement animation (animation, 0.85)
  • silver cars (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • character movement animation
  • subtle pose changes across frames

Animation

  • subtle character movement across frames
  • consistent layout structure maintained throughout animation

Animation Summary

10-frame animation showing character movement across frames with consistent layout structure, featuring red/blue stick figures next to silver cars in top row and identical boomboxes below each frame

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • blue
  • silver
  • black

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • left-to-right frame sequence
  • top row character sequences
  • bottom rows boombox icons

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid contact sheet containing 10 animated frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Each frame shows variations of a pixel-art animation sequence featuring small stick-figure characters in red and blue outfits alongside silver cars with red headlights. The top row includes three character sequences: first a single red figure next to a car, then two figures (blue and red) beside another car, followed by two more figures (blue and red) near the third car. Above these sequences is visible text reading "CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM" in white pixelated letters on a black background. Below each frame is the word "Subs" in gray pixelated font. The lower rows contain identical boombox icons with dual circular speakers, blue top accents, and silver grilles. All frames share a consistent gray background indicating transparency. The animation shows subtle character movements across frames while maintaining the same layout structure throughout.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing a sequence of 10 frames from an AIM buddy icon featuring pixelated characters and boomboxes with "Subs" text beneath each frame.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Subs | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "Subs" text and boombox design

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • subs buddy icon

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Subs" text visible below each frame
  • boombox icons match visual content
  • character sequences match description of "badass buddy" style

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • retro

Named Entities

  • Subs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art subs buddy icon
  • aol instant messenger boombox animation
  • red blue stick figure cars check out system
  • subscribers boombox pixel art
  • 8-bit character movement animation

Objects

  • car headlights
  • dual circular speakers
  • blue top accents
  • silver grilles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 10 sampled frames from source animation
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frame count matches sourceFrameCount of 10
  • 4x3 grid layout for contact sheet display

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon characters
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / subs buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • red stick figure
  • blue stick figure
  • silver cars
  • boombox icons

Visible Text

  • CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM
  • Subs

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • 4x3 contact sheet
  • 10 animated frames
  • red stick figure
  • blue stick figure
  • silver cars with red headlights
  • "CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM" text
  • "Subs" text
  • boombox icons
  • dual circular speakers
  • blue top accents
  • silver grilles
  • gray background transparency
  • character movement animation
  • pixelated font
  • car headlights on
  • text above character sequences
  • text below each frame
  • consistent layout structure
  • frame-to-frame motion changes
Raw JSON
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencebadass buddy icons0.80wayback-badassbuddy-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · curated-homogeneous · observation-categorysubs 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 / subs 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