Pixelated animated contact sheet showing a surf-themed buddy icon with repeated text and three distinct poses of the character across frames.

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Pixelated animated contact sheet showing a surf-themed buddy icon with repeated text and three distinct poses of the character across frames.

Pixelated animated contact sheet showing a surf-themed buddy icon with repeated text and three distinct poses of the character across frames. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Animation

  • frame 0: raised arms on surfboard
  • frame 1: extended arm upward
  • frame 2: leaning forward pose
  • frame 3: repeated frame 0
  • frame 4: repeated frame 1
  • frame 5: repeated frame 2

Animation Summary

Six-frame animation showing three distinct poses of a surf-themed stick figure character with consistent color scheme across all frames, featuring repeated "Surf Buddy" text bands and wave patterns.

Composition

  • horizontal text bands
  • three-character poses in row
  • wave patterns at top and bottom edges

Dense Caption

The image is a 96x96 pixel animated contact sheet displaying six sampled frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. The background consists of solid gray transparency with turquoise wave patterns at the top and bottom edges. Repeated white text "Surf Buddy" appears in two horizontal bands across the middle, each instance underlined by a black line. Three distinct character poses are visible: left frame shows a stick figure with yellow arms raised on a green-and-blue surfboard; center frame depicts the same figure with one arm extended upward; right frame has the figure leaning forward with both arms outstretched. The character wears a white helmet, red shorts, and yellow torso. Small wave-like pixel clusters float above the main waves. Each pose shows subtle variations in limb positioning while maintaining consistent color scheme and design elements across all frames.

Description

Pixelated animated contact sheet showing a surf-themed buddy icon with repeated text and three distinct poses of the character across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Surf Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"repeated text and surfing theme"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "badass" descriptor not supported by visual content (no aggressive elements)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • surf buddy icon name from repeated text
  • surfing theme from character on board with waves

Named Entities

  • Surf Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surf buddy pixel art animation
  • surfer stick figure with red shorts
  • underlined surf buddy text
  • turquoise wave background animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x2
  • sampled frame count 6
  • source frame count 6
  • gray transparency background for animation frames

Safety Notes

  • no nudity or explicit content; cartoonish surfing theme is safe for work

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs source suggests "badass buddy icons" category; surf buddy icon label matches visible text and theme

Visible Text

  • Surf Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfing stick figure mascot

Wordwall

  • surf buddy text
  • underlined text
  • gray background
  • turquoise wave patterns
  • yellow stick figure arms
  • red shorts
  • white helmet
  • green-and-blue surfboard
  • pixelated animation frame
  • three distinct poses
  • wave clusters above waves
  • repeated "Surf Buddy" text
  • black underline on text
  • solid gray transparency
  • surfing character design
  • stretched arm pose
  • raised arm pose
  • leaning forward pose
  • yellow torso
  • red shorts with white stripes
  • white helmet with black stripe
  • green surfboard base
  • blue wave accents
  • pixelated turquoise waves

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / surf buddy buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
6.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/26f60541d6d5a8c781ee16037bb380fafa6afb54f2bd4de58dfc11265aa4a367.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
26f60541d6d5a8c7
SHA-256
26f60541d6d5a8c781ee16037bb380fafa6afb54f2bd4de58dfc11265aa4a367
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082367

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926091onnx/unsafe0.082367onnx/nsfw0.049880onnx/nsfl0.032487
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:52 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

Pixelated animated contact sheet showing a surf-themed buddy icon with repeated text and three distinct poses of the character across frames.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:52 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
16,779 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,968, response 1,130

Review tags

  • red shorts (clothing, 0.95)
  • surfing character (subject, 0.95)
  • white helmet (accessory, 0.90)
  • gray background (background, 0.90)
  • yellow arms (body parts, 0.90)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.90)
  • repeated text (text, 0.90)
  • underlined text (text, 0.90)
  • green surfboard base (object, 0.85)
  • blue wave accents (pattern, 0.85)

Actions

  • raising arms
  • extending arm upward
  • leaning forward

Animation

  • frame 0: raised arms on surfboard
  • frame 1: extended arm upward
  • frame 2: leaning forward pose
  • frame 3: repeated frame 0
  • frame 4: repeated frame 1
  • frame 5: repeated frame 2

Animation Summary

Six-frame animation showing three distinct poses of a surf-themed stick figure character with consistent color scheme across all frames, featuring repeated "Surf Buddy" text bands and wave patterns.

Colors

  • gray
  • turquoise
  • yellow
  • red
  • white
  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • horizontal text bands
  • three-character poses in row
  • wave patterns at top and bottom edges

Dense Caption

The image is a 96x96 pixel animated contact sheet displaying six sampled frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon animation. The background consists of solid gray transparency with turquoise wave patterns at the top and bottom edges. Repeated white text "Surf Buddy" appears in two horizontal bands across the middle, each instance underlined by a black line. Three distinct character poses are visible: left frame shows a stick figure with yellow arms raised on a green-and-blue surfboard; center frame depicts the same figure with one arm extended upward; right frame has the figure leaning forward with both arms outstretched. The character wears a white helmet, red shorts, and yellow torso. Small wave-like pixel clusters float above the main waves. Each pose shows subtle variations in limb positioning while maintaining consistent color scheme and design elements across all frames.

Description

Pixelated animated contact sheet showing a surf-themed buddy icon with repeated text and three distinct poses of the character across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Surf Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"repeated text and surfing theme"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "badass" descriptor not supported by visual content (no aggressive elements)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • surf buddy icon name from repeated text
  • surfing theme from character on board with waves

Mood

  • playful
  • lighthearted
  • retro

Named Entities

  • Surf Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surf buddy pixel art animation
  • surfer stick figure with red shorts
  • underlined surf buddy text
  • turquoise wave background animation

Objects

  • surfboard
  • helmet
  • text banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x2
  • sampled frame count 6
  • source frame count 6
  • gray transparency background for animation frames

Safety Notes

  • no nudity or explicit content; cartoonish surfing theme is safe for work

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • wayback-badassbuddy-gifs source suggests "badass buddy icons" category; surf buddy icon label matches visible text and theme

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit animation
  • low-resolution cartoon

Subjects

  • surfing stick figure character
  • wave patterns

Visible Text

  • Surf Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfing stick figure mascot

Wordwall

  • surf buddy text
  • underlined text
  • gray background
  • turquoise wave patterns
  • yellow stick figure arms
  • red shorts
  • white helmet
  • green-and-blue surfboard
  • pixelated animation frame
  • three distinct poses
  • wave clusters above waves
  • repeated "Surf Buddy" text
  • black underline on text
  • solid gray transparency
  • surfing character design
  • stretched arm pose
  • raised arm pose
  • leaning forward pose
  • yellow torso
  • red shorts with white stripes
  • white helmet with black stripe
  • green surfboard base
  • blue wave accents
  • pixelated turquoise waves
Raw JSON
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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 / surf buddy buddy icon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons