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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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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)
- 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
- 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
Enrichment records (1)
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)
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
Original: http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Surf_Buddy_Buddy_Icon/?action=download Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20171204225243id_/http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Surf_Buddy_Buddy_Icon/?action=download