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Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons featuring character portraits and map-like backgrounds with repeated text labels.
Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons featuring character portraits and map-like backgrounds with repeated text labels. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CD…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures
- Category
- badass buddy icons / taproot 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
- 14.6 KB
- Motion
- Animated (11 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/be/bede164e5125a3c9b96705d6b322f60b4a7a319790761c140a132a24702f322c.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
- Archive ID
- bede164e5125a3c9
- SHA-256
- bede164e5125a3c9b96705d6b322f60b4a7a319790761c140a132a24702f322c
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.089728
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 10, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
- Run
- 21
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons featuring character portraits and map-like backgrounds with repeated text labels.
- Reviewed
- July 10, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
- Run
- 21
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 10,676 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,945, response 1,292
Review tags
- taproot label (text, 0.99)
- pixel art (style, 0.98)
- gray background labels (text, 0.96)
- group of four figures (subject, 0.93)
- animation sequence (medium, 0.92)
- stern facial expressions (subject, 0.91)
- stone column backgrounds (background, 0.87)
- beige map textures (subject, 0.85)
- repeated pock text (text, 0.82)
- dark pen object (object, 0.79)
Animation
- frame-to-frame transitions between character portraits and map-like background elements with repeated 'POCK' text fragments
Animation Summary
Animated sequence cycles through character portraits and map-like background elements with consistent labeling, showing transitions between four distinct character designs and environmental textures while maintaining the same text fragments and color palette
Colors
- beige
- gray
- brown
- black
- yellow
- white
Composition
- 4x3 grid layout
- character portraits on left
- backgrounds on right
- consistent labeling below each frame
Dense Caption
The image displays a 4x3 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon set. Each cell contains a small rectangular animation frame showing either character portraits or map-like background elements. The top row features four distinct pixel art characters: first is a group of four figures with varied clothing (green, gray, black, brown), followed by three individual male faces with stern expressions and yellowish skin tones against stone-column backgrounds. Middle rows show transitions between these character frames and abstract map-like textures with beige, gray, and brown tones featuring repeated 'POCK' text fragments and a dark pen or stick object. All frames have the label '_Taproot_' beneath them in white pixelated font on a light gray background. The animation appears to cycle through different character portraits and environmental backgrounds while maintaining consistent labeling and color palette of beige, gray, brown, black, and yellow tones.
Description
- Animated contact sheet of pixel art buddy icons featuring character portraits and map-like backgrounds with repeated text labels.
Identity Hypotheses
- Taproot | basis both | confidence high | evidence: repeated '_Taproot_' label in all frames
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- 'badass' descriptor not visually supported by stern expressions alone
- 'buddy icons' confirmed but specific theme unclear beyond character portraits and map elements
Metadata Only Entities
- badass buddy icons
- taproot buddy icon (as name)
Metadata Supported By Image
- '_Taproot_' label appears in all frames
- repeated 'POCK' text fragments match potential game-related terminology
Mood
- neutral
- nostalgic
- playful
Named Entities
- Taproot
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- pixel art taproot buddy icon
- taproot animated contact sheet
- beige map textures with poock text
- stern male character portraits
- 4x3 grid of taproot icons
Objects
- stone columns
- dark pen object
- beige map textures
Preprocessing Notes
contact sheet contains 12 sampled frames (4x3 grid) from an animation source; all frames have light gray background labels; frame count matches sourceFrameCount of 11 but shows 12 samples due to contact-sheet layout
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon-style pixel art
- no visible nudity or explicit content
- text is non-sexual game-related fragments
Source Metadata Interpretation
source hints indicate 'badass buddy icons' and 'taproot buddy icon', suggesting a themed character set with possible gaming or fantasy context
Style
- pixel art
- retro digital
- low-resolution animation
Subjects
- group of four figures
- individual male faces
- map-like background elements
Visible Text
- _Taproot_
- POCK
Visually Supported Entities
- AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon set
- pixel art animation style
Wordwall
- pixel art buddy icon
- 4x3 contact sheet grid
- character portraits
- stone column backgrounds
- beige map textures
- repeated 'POCK' text fragments
- dark pen object
- white '_Taproot_' label
- yellowish skin tone characters
- stern facial expressions
- group of four figures
- individual male faces
- gray background frame labels
- pixelated font style
- consistent color palette
- animation sequence frames
- character transition animation
- map-like environmental backgrounds
- text fragments on map
- beige brown gray tones
- black outline details
- stone column textures
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 / taproot 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/Taproot_Buddy_Icon/?action=download Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20171204225949id_/http://www.badassbuddy.com/Badass_Buddy_Icons/Taproot_Buddy_Icon/?action=download