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A 3x3 contact sheet of a stick figure animation with a top hat and cane, showing sequential motion across nine frames.
A 3x3 contact sheet of a stick figure animation with a top hat and cane, showing sequential motion across nine frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX OriginalI…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Guest Icons GIF Captures
- Source title
- tophatfaststick
- Category
- guesticons / guest icons 17 / tophatfaststick
- Era
- Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 02:37 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 50×50 pixels
- File size
- 2.2 KB
- Motion
- Animated (9 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/c5/c5b486ee55e4efec2a95ee664f6068e5567795549ce8ee55446d360f59644263.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
- Archive ID
- c5b486ee55e4efec
- SHA-256
- c5b486ee55e4efec2a95ee664f6068e5567795549ce8ee55446d360f59644263
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.107971
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 11, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
- Run
- 28
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 3x3 contact sheet of a stick figure animation with a top hat and cane, showing sequential motion across nine frames.
- Reviewed
- July 11, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
- Run
- 28
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 11,159 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,943, response 1,265
Review tags
- top hat (accessory, 0.95)
- cane (object, 0.95)
- stick figure (subject, 0.95)
- sequential motion (animation, 0.90)
- gray checkered background (background, 0.90)
- neutral expression (facial feature, 0.90)
- black and white animation (style, 0.90)
- walking gesture (action, 0.85)
- 3x3 contact sheet (layout, 0.85)
- cane swing arc (animation detail, 0.80)
- pixel art (style, 0.80)
Actions
- walking gesture
- cane swing
- body posture variation
- leg positioning change
Animation
- frame-by-frame motion sequence
- cane movement arc from raised to horizontal to angled down-left
- body posture shifts between straight and leaning positions
- leg positioning changes indicating walking cycle
Animation Summary
A 9-frame stick figure animation showing sequential motion of a top-hatted character swinging a cane through walking/gesturing poses, with consistent neutral expression across all frames.
Colors
- black
- white
- gray
Composition
- 3x3 contact sheet layout
- individual frames 50x50 pixels
- uniform character design across all frames
Dense Caption
The image displays a 3x3 grid of animated frames featuring a black-and-white stick figure character wearing a top hat. The character has a simple circular head with two dots for eyes and a straight line mouth, giving it a neutral expression. It holds a thin cane in its right hand across all frames. In the first frame (top-left), the character stands upright with the cane raised diagonally upward to the left. In subsequent frames, the cane moves through various positions: downward-right, horizontal, angled down-left, and back up-right. The stick figure's body posture shifts slightly between frames—sometimes standing straight, sometimes leaning or bending at the waist—with subtle variations in leg positioning indicating motion. The animation appears to depict a walking or gesturing sequence with the cane as the primary moving object. All frames share identical background transparency (gray checkered pattern) and consistent character design. Each frame is 50x50 pixels within a larger contact sheet layout, showing all nine sampled frames from what may be an animated buddy icon.
Description
- A 3x3 contact sheet of a stick figure animation with a top hat and cane, showing sequential motion across nine frames.
Identity Hypotheses
tophatfaststick | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence: top hat and cane match name suggestion; no visible character identity beyond generic stick figure
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- no visible text confirms 'guesticons' category name
- no explicit branding or logo identifies specific guest account system
Metadata Only Entities
- tophatfaststick
- guesticons
Metadata Supported By Image
- the character's top hat and cane are consistent with the 'tophatfaststick' hint
- the animation style matches typical early-2000s AIM buddy icons
Mood
- neutral
- calm
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- stick figure top hat cane animation
- tophatfaststick animated icon
- black and white AIM buddy icon
- 9 frame walking stick figure
- cane swing motion sequence
Objects
- cane
Preprocessing Notes
- contact sheet layout 3x3 with 9 sampled frames
- gray checkered transparency background
- reviewImagePixels 768x768
- sourceFrameCount 9
- sampledFrameCount 9
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon stick figure animation; no nudity, gore, hate symbols, or explicit sexual content
Source Metadata Interpretation
non-authoritative source hints suggest 'tophatfaststick' name and 'guesticons' category, possibly indicating a custom animated buddy icon from an older AOL community or guest account system
Style
- pixel art
- stick figure animation
- simple line drawing
Subjects
- stick figure character
- top hat
- cane
Visually Supported Entities
- early 2000s AOL instant messaging animation style
Wordwall
- stick figure
- top hat
- cane
- neutral expression
- black-and-white animation
- sequential motion
- frame-by-frame movement
- walking gesture
- cane swing
- body posture variation
- head position consistent
- eye dots
- mouth line
- transparent background
- gray checkered pattern
- 3x3 contact sheet
- 9 frames
- pixelated rendering
- simple design
- motion sequence
- hand holding cane
- leg positioning change
- neutral face
- straight mouth
- dot eyes
- top hat silhouette
- cane movement arc
- frame 0 to frame 8 progression
Raw JSON
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}Source semantic tags (6)
Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Guest Icons GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-guesticons-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
- Type
- Wayback historical user-submitted portal crawl
- Category
- guesticons / guest icons 17 / tophatfaststick
- Alt
- tophatfaststick
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 02:37 UTC
- Rights
- mixed user-submitted copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- OriginalIcons guest-icon folders with uploader/group names and user-submitted AIM identity material
Original: http://www.originalicons.com/guesticons/Guest.Icons.17/tophatfaststick.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20030620072809id_/http://www.originalicons.com:80/guesticons/Guest.Icons.17/tophatfaststick.gif