Animated contact sheet showing 19 sequential frames of a pixel-art character performing various actions with repeated text overlays.

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Animated contact sheet showing 19 sequential frames of a pixel-art character performing various actions with repeated text overlays.

Animated contact sheet showing 19 sequential frames of a pixel-art character performing various actions with repeated text overlays. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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Animation

  • frame 0-3: bending forward motion
  • frame 4-7: alternating bend/stand cycle
  • frame 8-12: running with arm swings
  • frame 13-15: crouching and jumping variations
  • frame 16-18: side-to-side movement sequences

Animation Summary

A pixel-art character performs multiple distinct animations including bending, running, crouching, and jumping across 19 sequential frames with consistent '_Touchdown!_' text overlays.

Composition

  • 5x4 contact sheet layout
  • sequential frame arrangement left-to-right top-to-bottom
  • text overlays below each action sequence

Dense Caption

A static image displays a 5x4 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon, totaling 19 visible frames. Each frame features a small pixelated character with gray hair and blue clothing against a light gray background. The character performs multiple distinct animations: in the top row labeled 'HUI', it repeatedly bends forward; in the second row labeled 'HUT', it alternates between bending and standing upright; in the third row labeled 'HIKE!', it executes a running motion with arms swinging; additional frames show variations of these actions including crouching, jumping, and side-to-side movement. The character consistently holds a brown stick-like object in some poses while yellow accents appear on its clothing or hands. Repeated text overlays reading '_Touchdown!_Touchdown!_Touchdown!' appear below each animation sequence. Pixelation is evident throughout with visible dithering patterns typical of early digital art, and the background shows faint 'BRD' watermarks indicating a source archive. The character's facial features include simple white eyes with black pupils in most frames, though some variations show closed or squinted eyes during motion sequences.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet showing 19 sequential frames of a pixel-art character performing various actions with repeated text overlays.

Identity Hypotheses

  • badass buddy character | basis both | confidence high | evidence repeated 'Touchdown!' text and action sequences

Metadata Only Entities

  • touchdown 1 buddy icon

Metadata Supported By Image

  • repeated '_Touchdown!_' text matches suggested 'touchdown' theme

Named Entities

  • badass buddy character

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art touchdown buddy icon
  • badass buddy touchdown animation
  • touchdown text pixel art character
  • running motion pixel art buddy
  • bending forward touchdowndown icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout shows 5 columns x 4 rows of animation frames
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count (19)
  • light gray background indicates transparency rendering
  • faint 'BRD' watermarks visible on all frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character animation
  • repeated 'Touchdown!' text is sports-related and non-sexual

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / touchdown 1 buddy icon

Visible Text

  • HUI
  • HUT
  • HIKE!
  • _Touchdown!_Touchdown!_Touchdown!
  • BRD

Visually Supported Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • touchdown-themed animation

Wordwall

  • pixel-art character
  • gray hair
  • blue clothing
  • brown stick object
  • yellow accents
  • repeated '_Touchdown!_' text
  • light gray background
  • 5x4 contact sheet grid
  • 19 visible animation frames
  • bending forward action
  • standing upright pose
  • running motion
  • crouching frame
  • jumping sequence
  • side-to-side movement
  • white eyes with black pupils
  • dithered pixel patterns
  • faint 'BRD' watermarks
  • gray transparency background
  • brown stick held in hand

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / touchdown 1 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
26.3 KB
Motion
Animated (19 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/da/da529f906f28f3d7cfdeee0f0cd1c104b33ed8e424b1d66e1be80f07f3a27701.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
da529f906f28f3d7
SHA-256
da529f906f28f3d7cfdeee0f0cd1c104b33ed8e424b1d66e1be80f07f3a27701
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091473

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914120onnx/unsafe0.091473onnx/nsfw0.052745onnx/nsfl0.038728
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 08:58 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

Animated contact sheet showing 19 sequential frames of a pixel-art character performing various actions with repeated text overlays.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 08:58 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
7,452 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,210, response 1,289

Review tags

  • gray hair (appearance, 0.95)
  • light gray background (background, 0.95)
  • blue clothing (clothing, 0.95)
  • dithered pixel patterns (rendering, 0.95)
  • pixel art character (subject, 0.95)
  • repeated touchdown text (text, 0.95)
  • faint brd watermarks (artifact, 0.85)
  • yellow accents (color detail, 0.85)
  • contact sheet grid (layout, 0.85)
  • brown stick object (prop, 0.85)

Actions

  • bending forward
  • standing upright
  • running
  • crouching
  • jumping
  • side-to-side movement

Animation

  • frame 0-3: bending forward motion
  • frame 4-7: alternating bend/stand cycle
  • frame 8-12: running with arm swings
  • frame 13-15: crouching and jumping variations
  • frame 16-18: side-to-side movement sequences

Animation Summary

A pixel-art character performs multiple distinct animations including bending, running, crouching, and jumping across 19 sequential frames with consistent '_Touchdown!_' text overlays.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • brown
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • 5x4 contact sheet layout
  • sequential frame arrangement left-to-right top-to-bottom
  • text overlays below each action sequence

Dense Caption

A static image displays a 5x4 grid of animated frame samples from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon, totaling 19 visible frames. Each frame features a small pixelated character with gray hair and blue clothing against a light gray background. The character performs multiple distinct animations: in the top row labeled 'HUI', it repeatedly bends forward; in the second row labeled 'HUT', it alternates between bending and standing upright; in the third row labeled 'HIKE!', it executes a running motion with arms swinging; additional frames show variations of these actions including crouching, jumping, and side-to-side movement. The character consistently holds a brown stick-like object in some poses while yellow accents appear on its clothing or hands. Repeated text overlays reading '_Touchdown!_Touchdown!_Touchdown!' appear below each animation sequence. Pixelation is evident throughout with visible dithering patterns typical of early digital art, and the background shows faint 'BRD' watermarks indicating a source archive. The character's facial features include simple white eyes with black pupils in most frames, though some variations show closed or squinted eyes during motion sequences.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet showing 19 sequential frames of a pixel-art character performing various actions with repeated text overlays.

Identity Hypotheses

  • badass buddy character | basis both | confidence high | evidence repeated 'Touchdown!' text and action sequences

Metadata Only Entities

  • touchdown 1 buddy icon

Metadata Supported By Image

  • repeated '_Touchdown!_' text matches suggested 'touchdown' theme

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Named Entities

  • badass buddy character

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art touchdown buddy icon
  • badass buddy touchdown animation
  • touchdown text pixel art character
  • running motion pixel art buddy
  • bending forward touchdowndown icon

Objects

  • brown stick-like object
  • yellow accents on clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout shows 5 columns x 4 rows of animation frames
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count (19)
  • light gray background indicates transparency rendering
  • faint 'BRD' watermarks visible on all frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character animation
  • repeated 'Touchdown!' text is sports-related and non-sexual

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / touchdown 1 buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • dithered rendering
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • pixel-art character with gray hair and blue clothing

Visible Text

  • HUI
  • HUT
  • HIKE!
  • _Touchdown!_Touchdown!_Touchdown!
  • BRD

Visually Supported Entities

  • badass buddy icons
  • touchdown-themed animation

Wordwall

  • pixel-art character
  • gray hair
  • blue clothing
  • brown stick object
  • yellow accents
  • repeated '_Touchdown!_' text
  • light gray background
  • 5x4 contact sheet grid
  • 19 visible animation frames
  • bending forward action
  • standing upright pose
  • running motion
  • crouching frame
  • jumping sequence
  • side-to-side movement
  • white eyes with black pupils
  • dithered pixel patterns
  • faint 'BRD' watermarks
  • gray transparency background
  • brown stick held in hand
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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 / touchdown 1 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