Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a thug-themed animated buddy icon with red text branding and gray background transparency.

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Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a thug-themed animated buddy icon with red text branding and gray background transparency.

Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a thug-themed animated buddy icon with red text branding and gray background transparency. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Way…

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Animation

  • no visible movement between frames
  • static pose in both sampled frames

Animation Summary

Two identical static frames of a pixel-art thug-themed cartoon character holding a handgun with muzzle flash effects, displayed in 2x2 contact sheet format with red branding text above and white 'Thug Buddy' labels below each frame.

Composition

  • centered character
  • text above and below frame
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

A 2x2 contact sheet displays two identical pixel-art animation frames of a cartoon character labeled 'Thug Buddy'. The character is a brown-skinned male figure wearing blue patterned pants, a white striped shirt, green chain necklace, orange shoes, and blue sunglasses. He holds a black handgun in his right hand with visible muzzle flash effects (white pixels) while raising his left hand. Above the top frame, red text reads 'badass buddy .com' on gray background. Below each character image, white pixelated text says 'Thug Buddy'. The animation shows no movement between frames; both images are identical static poses. Pixel art style uses blocky 8-bit rendering with limited color palette (brown, blue, green, orange, black, white). Gray background indicates transparency layer for AIM buddy icon display.

Description

  • Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a thug-themed animated buddy icon with red text branding and gray background transparency.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Thug Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"visible 'Thug Buddy' text label and matching character design"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'badass buddy .com' text branding matches source hint
  • 'Thug Buddy' label appears on both frames

Named Entities

  • Thug Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thug buddy pixel art icon
  • badass buddy com thug buddy logo
  • 8-bit thug character animation frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 2x2 grid layout
  • sampled from animated icon source
  • gray background indicates transparency layer for AIM display
  • 3 total source frames but only 2 visible in this contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon violence, no nudity or graphic gore

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • badass buddy .com
  • Thug Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • thug-themed cartoon character design

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • thug-themed cartoon
  • brown-skinned male figure
  • blue patterned pants
  • white striped shirt
  • green chain necklace
  • orange shoes
  • blue sunglasses
  • black handgun
  • muzzle flash effects
  • red text branding
  • gray background transparency
  • white pixelated text
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • 8-bit rendering style
  • blocky pixel art
  • limited color palette
  • identical animation frames
  • static pose character
  • buddy icon design

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / thug 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
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/3191c18f6bfaa135903bd0faef8e0e4975c6fd0ac9ceaa122c1530ef9adb1cb9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
3191c18f6bfaa135
SHA-256
3191c18f6bfaa135903bd0faef8e0e4975c6fd0ac9ceaa122c1530ef9adb1cb9
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110841

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923199onnx/unsafe0.110841onnx/nsfw0.057532onnx/nsfl0.053309
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:57 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

Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a thug-themed animated buddy icon with red text branding and gray background transparency.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:57 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
18,453 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,905, response 3,478

Review tags

  • gray background transparency (composition, 0.95)
  • handgun visual (object, 0.95)
  • pixel art character (subject, 0.95)
  • white pixel text (text, 0.95)
  • blue patterned pants (object, 0.90)
  • blue sunglasses (object, 0.90)
  • orange shoes (object, 0.90)
  • thug themed cartoon (subject, 0.90)
  • red branding text (text, 0.90)
  • muzzle flash effects (action, 0.85)
  • green chain necklace (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • holding handgun
  • muzzle flash effect
  • raising left hand

Animation

  • no visible movement between frames
  • static pose in both sampled frames

Animation Summary

Two identical static frames of a pixel-art thug-themed cartoon character holding a handgun with muzzle flash effects, displayed in 2x2 contact sheet format with red branding text above and white 'Thug Buddy' labels below each frame.

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • green
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • text above and below frame
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

A 2x2 contact sheet displays two identical pixel-art animation frames of a cartoon character labeled 'Thug Buddy'. The character is a brown-skinned male figure wearing blue patterned pants, a white striped shirt, green chain necklace, orange shoes, and blue sunglasses. He holds a black handgun in his right hand with visible muzzle flash effects (white pixels) while raising his left hand. Above the top frame, red text reads 'badass buddy .com' on gray background. Below each character image, white pixelated text says 'Thug Buddy'. The animation shows no movement between frames; both images are identical static poses. Pixel art style uses blocky 8-bit rendering with limited color palette (brown, blue, green, orange, black, white). Gray background indicates transparency layer for AIM buddy icon display.

Description

  • Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a thug-themed animated buddy icon with red text branding and gray background transparency.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Thug Buddy","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"visible 'Thug Buddy' text label and matching character design"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 'badass buddy .com' text branding matches source hint
  • 'Thug Buddy' label appears on both frames

Mood

  • confident
  • assertive
  • playful thug aesthetic

Named Entities

  • Thug Buddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thug buddy pixel art icon
  • badass buddy com thug buddy logo
  • 8-bit thug character animation frame

Objects

  • black handgun
  • green chain necklace
  • blue patterned pants
  • white striped shirt
  • orange shoes
  • blue sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 2x2 grid layout
  • sampled from animated icon source
  • gray background indicates transparency layer for AIM display
  • 3 total source frames but only 2 visible in this contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon violence, no nudity or graphic gore

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky rendering
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • brown-skinned male cartoon figure
  • thug-themed character

Visible Text

  • badass buddy .com
  • Thug Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • thug-themed cartoon character design

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • thug-themed cartoon
  • brown-skinned male figure
  • blue patterned pants
  • white striped shirt
  • green chain necklace
  • orange shoes
  • blue sunglasses
  • black handgun
  • muzzle flash effects
  • red text branding
  • gray background transparency
  • white pixelated text
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • 8-bit rendering style
  • blocky pixel art
  • limited color palette
  • identical animation frames
  • static pose character
  • buddy icon design
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 / thug 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