A 5x5 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character named Windy with white head and gray background, showing sequential motion frames from left-to-right top-to-bottom.

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A 5x5 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character named Windy with white head and gray background, showing sequential motion frames from left-to-right top-to-bottom.

A 5x5 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character named Windy with white head and gray background, showing sequential motion frames from left-…

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Animation

  • frame 0: standing with particle effects around arms
  • frame 1-2: reduced particle density
  • frame 3-4: slight body tilt
  • frame 5-6: more pronounced tilt
  • frame 7-8: bent posture
  • frame 9-10: minimal motion blur
  • frame 11-12: pointing left action
  • frame 13-14: pointing right action
  • frame 15-16: standing pose with reduced particles
  • frame 17-18: slight body movement
  • frame 19-20: more active posture
  • frame 21-22: final motion states

Animation Summary

24-frame running cycle animation showing progressive motion from standing with particle effects to pointing actions, maintaining consistent pixel art style throughout.

Composition

  • 5x5 grid layout
  • uniform frame sizing
  • centered character placement

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of animated frame samples for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small pixelated animation frame on a solid gray background. The central subject is a simple stick figure character with a white head, yellow body, and black limbs, labeled "Windy" in lowercase text beneath each frame. The animation sequence shows progressive motion: the top row features the character standing still with subtle particle effects around its arms; middle rows show decreasing particle density as the character's pose shifts from upright to slightly bent; bottom rows depict distinct actions including pointing left and right. All frames maintain consistent pixel art style, 8-bit color palette (yellow, white, black, gray), and identical text labeling. The animation appears to be a running or walking cycle with motion blur effects in early frames that diminish toward the end of the sequence. Each frame is precisely sized at approximately 192x192 pixels within the larger contact sheet layout.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character named Windy with white head and gray background, showing sequential motion frames from left-to-right top-to-bottom.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Windy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "Windy" text label and consistent naming across all frames

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Windy" text label matches source hint name
  • pixel art style consistent with 'badass buddy' aesthetic

Named Entities

  • Windy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Windy running stick figure animation
  • yellow pixel art buddy icon
  • 8-bit running cycle animation
  • Windy text label pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 24
  • source frame count 24
  • gray transparency background
  • review image size 1280x1280 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • Windy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Windy character name from visible text

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white head
  • black limbs
  • Windy text label
  • gray background
  • pixel art animation
  • running cycle
  • motion blur effects
  • particle effects
  • sequential frames
  • 5x5 grid
  • 8-bit color palette
  • lowercase text
  • standing pose
  • pointing left
  • pointing right
  • subtle motion
  • frame-to-frame changes
  • small pixelated character
  • consistent labeling

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / windy buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
13.9 KB
Motion
Animated (24 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d238fef21727858ac66c5f90c8130eb11e7051e1efb3d2bb9fdfef4778e0bfdd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
Archive ID
d238fef21727858a
SHA-256
d238fef21727858ac66c5f90c8130eb11e7051e1efb3d2bb9fdfef4778e0bfdd
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089999

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913375onnx/unsafe0.089999onnx/nsfw0.050635onnx/nsfl0.039364
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 09:08 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

A 5x5 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character named Windy with white head and gray background, showing sequential motion frames from left-to-right top-to-bottom.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 09:08 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
6,762 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,539, response 1,182

Review tags

  • windy text label (text, 1.00)
  • running stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • pointing left action (action, 0.90)
  • pointing right action (action, 0.90)
  • gray background (color, 0.90)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.90)
  • motion blur effects (animation, 0.85)
  • particle effects (animation, 0.80)

Actions

  • running cycle
  • motion blur effects
  • particle effects
  • standing pose
  • pointing left
  • pointing right

Animation

  • frame 0: standing with particle effects around arms
  • frame 1-2: reduced particle density
  • frame 3-4: slight body tilt
  • frame 5-6: more pronounced tilt
  • frame 7-8: bent posture
  • frame 9-10: minimal motion blur
  • frame 11-12: pointing left action
  • frame 13-14: pointing right action
  • frame 15-16: standing pose with reduced particles
  • frame 17-18: slight body movement
  • frame 19-20: more active posture
  • frame 21-22: final motion states

Animation Summary

24-frame running cycle animation showing progressive motion from standing with particle effects to pointing actions, maintaining consistent pixel art style throughout.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • 5x5 grid layout
  • uniform frame sizing
  • centered character placement

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of animated frame samples for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each cell contains a small pixelated animation frame on a solid gray background. The central subject is a simple stick figure character with a white head, yellow body, and black limbs, labeled "Windy" in lowercase text beneath each frame. The animation sequence shows progressive motion: the top row features the character standing still with subtle particle effects around its arms; middle rows show decreasing particle density as the character's pose shifts from upright to slightly bent; bottom rows depict distinct actions including pointing left and right. All frames maintain consistent pixel art style, 8-bit color palette (yellow, white, black, gray), and identical text labeling. The animation appears to be a running or walking cycle with motion blur effects in early frames that diminish toward the end of the sequence. Each frame is precisely sized at approximately 192x192 pixels within the larger contact sheet layout.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character named Windy with white head and gray background, showing sequential motion frames from left-to-right top-to-bottom.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Windy | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "Windy" text label and consistent naming across all frames

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Windy" text label matches source hint name
  • pixel art style consistent with 'badass buddy' aesthetic

Mood

  • playful
  • retro
  • simple

Named Entities

  • Windy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Windy running stick figure animation
  • yellow pixel art buddy icon
  • 8-bit running cycle animation
  • Windy text label pixel art

Objects

  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 24
  • source frame count 24
  • gray transparency background
  • review image size 1280x1280 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white head
  • black limbs

Visible Text

  • Windy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Windy character name from visible text

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • white head
  • black limbs
  • Windy text label
  • gray background
  • pixel art animation
  • running cycle
  • motion blur effects
  • particle effects
  • sequential frames
  • 5x5 grid
  • 8-bit color palette
  • lowercase text
  • standing pose
  • pointing left
  • pointing right
  • subtle motion
  • frame-to-frame changes
  • small pixelated character
  • consistent labeling
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 / windy buddy icon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons