A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two orange-shirted stick figures with white heads, some frames featuring a 'HELLO?' speech bubble above them and all labeled 'Sucker' below.

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A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two orange-shirted stick figures with white heads, some frames featuring a 'HELLO?' speech bubble above them and all labeled 'Sucker' below.

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two orange-shirted stick figures with white heads, some frames featuring a 'HELLO?' speech bubble above them and all labeled 'Sucke…

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Animation

  • subtle pose changes between frames
  • speech bubble appears on three central frames
  • one frame shows single figure instead of two

Animation Summary

13-frame animation showing two stick figures with subtle pose variations; three frames include a 'HELLO?' speech bubble while all frames display '_Sucker' text below the figures.

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • centered figures in each frame
  • text below figures

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small pixelated animation frame on a gray background. The main subject is two identical stick figures with white circular heads, orange square bodies, and black outlines. In the top three rows (12 frames), both figures stand side-by-side with arms at their sides or slightly raised; in the bottom-right frame of the grid, only one figure appears. Three central frames feature a rectangular speech bubble above the figures containing 'HELLO?' text. All frames have the word '_Sucker' written below them in white pixelated font. The animation shows subtle pose variations between frames: some figures have arms at their sides while others show slight arm movement or raised hands, with one frame showing only a single figure. The style is retro 8-bit pixel art typical of early internet icons, using limited colors (white, orange, black) on a gray background that indicates transparency.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two orange-shirted stick figures with white heads, some frames featuring a 'HELLO?' speech bubble above them and all labeled 'Sucker' below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Sucker | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible 'Sucker' text and source hint match
  • Badass Buddy | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence: source hints mention 'badass buddy icons' but no visual confirmation of 'badass' aspect

Metadata Only Entities

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'Sucker' text label matches source hint name
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM era

Named Entities

  • Sucker

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sucker buddy icon
  • pixel art stick figure animation
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon
  • 8-bit hello speech bubble
  • retro internet chat icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 13 sampled frames (4x4 grid layout)
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • sourceFrameCount: 13
  • sampledFrameCount: 13
  • reviewImagePixels: 1024x1024

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon stick figures with friendly text

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Sucker
  • HELLO?

Visually Supported Entities

  • sucker (text)
  • badass buddy (category)

Wordwall

  • two stick figures
  • orange square bodies
  • white circular heads
  • black outlines
  • gray background
  • 'Sucker' text below
  • 'HELLO?' speech bubble
  • pixelated animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • arms at sides pose
  • slight arm movement
  • single figure frame
  • rectangular white speech bubble
  • retro 8-bit art style
  • limited color palette
  • transparency background
  • side-by-side figures
  • white pixel font
  • frame-to-frame pose variation
  • gray transparency grid

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / sucker 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
10.8 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe9a657f74bc35d0db2851fbd57f777fcf48ebf98ee7cace15d0dcdd97d31fd7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
fe9a657f74bc35d0
SHA-256
fe9a657f74bc35d0db2851fbd57f777fcf48ebf98ee7cace15d0dcdd97d31fd7
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:35 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086205

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917920onnx/unsafe0.086205onnx/nsfw0.044093onnx/nsfl0.042112
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

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two orange-shirted stick figures with white heads, some frames featuring a 'HELLO?' speech bubble above them and all labeled 'Sucker' below.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:50 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
5,967 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,929, response 1,244

Review tags

  • gray background (color, 0.95)
  • orange bodies (color, 0.95)
  • white heads (color, 0.95)
  • 4x4 contact sheet (composition, 0.95)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.95)
  • stick figures (subject, 0.95)
  • sucker text (text, 0.95)
  • subtle pose variation (animation, 0.90)
  • single figure frame (subject, 0.90)
  • hello speech bubble (object, 0.85)
  • retro internet icon (style, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing
  • speaking (via speech bubble)
  • subtle arm movement between frames

Animation

  • subtle pose changes between frames
  • speech bubble appears on three central frames
  • one frame shows single figure instead of two

Animation Summary

13-frame animation showing two stick figures with subtle pose variations; three frames include a 'HELLO?' speech bubble while all frames display '_Sucker' text below the figures.

Colors

  • white
  • orange
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • 4x4 grid layout
  • centered figures in each frame
  • text below figures

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small pixelated animation frame on a gray background. The main subject is two identical stick figures with white circular heads, orange square bodies, and black outlines. In the top three rows (12 frames), both figures stand side-by-side with arms at their sides or slightly raised; in the bottom-right frame of the grid, only one figure appears. Three central frames feature a rectangular speech bubble above the figures containing 'HELLO?' text. All frames have the word '_Sucker' written below them in white pixelated font. The animation shows subtle pose variations between frames: some figures have arms at their sides while others show slight arm movement or raised hands, with one frame showing only a single figure. The style is retro 8-bit pixel art typical of early internet icons, using limited colors (white, orange, black) on a gray background that indicates transparency.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing two orange-shirted stick figures with white heads, some frames featuring a 'HELLO?' speech bubble above them and all labeled 'Sucker' below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Sucker | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible 'Sucker' text and source hint match
  • Badass Buddy | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence: source hints mention 'badass buddy icons' but no visual confirmation of 'badass' aspect

Metadata Only Entities

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'Sucker' text label matches source hint name
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM era

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Sucker

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sucker buddy icon
  • pixel art stick figure animation
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon
  • 8-bit hello speech bubble
  • retro internet chat icon

Objects

  • 'HELLO?' speech bubble
  • '_Sucker' text label

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 13 sampled frames (4x4 grid layout)
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • sourceFrameCount: 13
  • sampledFrameCount: 13
  • reviewImagePixels: 1024x1024

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon stick figures with friendly text

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit animation
  • retro internet icon

Subjects

  • two stick figures
  • single stick figure (one frame)

Visible Text

  • Sucker
  • HELLO?

Visually Supported Entities

  • sucker (text)
  • badass buddy (category)

Wordwall

  • two stick figures
  • orange square bodies
  • white circular heads
  • black outlines
  • gray background
  • 'Sucker' text below
  • 'HELLO?' speech bubble
  • pixelated animation frames
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • arms at sides pose
  • slight arm movement
  • single figure frame
  • rectangular white speech bubble
  • retro 8-bit art style
  • limited color palette
  • transparency background
  • side-by-side figures
  • white pixel font
  • frame-to-frame pose variation
  • gray transparency grid
Raw JSON
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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 / sucker 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