Animated contact sheet showing 14 frames of a pixel art character interacting with mailboxes and fences, each frame labeled "You've Got Mail" text below.

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Animated contact sheet showing 14 frames of a pixel art character interacting with mailboxes and fences, each frame labeled "You've Got Mail" text below.

Animated contact sheet showing 14 frames of a pixel art character interacting with mailboxes and fences, each frame labeled "You've Got Mail" text below. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM bu…

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Animation

  • character moves between mailboxes and fences
  • mailbox door opens/closes in sequence
  • posture changes from frame to frame

Animation Summary

14-frame pixel art sequence showing cartoon character interacting with mailboxes and fences, displaying sequential motion changes in posture and object interaction while maintaining consistent design elements across all frames.

Composition

  • grid layout
  • multiple frames per row
  • consistent character design across frames
  • text below animation content

Dense Caption

Pixel art animation sequence featuring a small cartoon character in blue and white attire with red accents. The character has a round head, simple facial features (black dot eyes), and yellow lower body. In the frames, the character interacts with dark gray mailboxes on green grass patches against a solid light gray background. Some frames show the character opening mailboxes while others depict it standing near black metal fences. Each frame displays white text reading "You've Got Mail" below the animation. The animation progresses through various poses: approaching mailboxes, interacting with mailbox doors (opening/closing), and moving between fence sections. The pixel art style uses limited colors with visible dithering on grass areas. All frames maintain consistent character design but show sequential motion changes in posture and position relative to objects. The contact sheet layout shows 14 sampled animation frames arranged in a grid format, each frame containing the same core elements but different action states.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 14 frames of a pixel art character interacting with mailboxes and fences, each frame labeled "You've Got Mail" text below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • You've Got Mail character | basis both | confidence high | evidence text and mailbox interaction

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "You've Got Mail" text is visible in all frames
  • character design consistent with "badass buddy" concept

Named Entities

  • You've Got Mail

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • you've got mail pixel art animation
  • aol instant messenger mailbox character
  • badass buddy youve got mail icon
  • pixel art mailbox interaction sequence

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 14 sampled frames arranged in grid layout
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frame count matches sourceFrameCount of 14

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • text is standard AOL notification phrase

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / youve got mail buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit style

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • You've Got Mail

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger animation
  • "You've Got Mail" branding

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • blue white red attire
  • yellow lower body
  • round head
  • black dot eyes
  • dark gray mailbox
  • green grass patch
  • light gray background
  • "You've Got Mail" text
  • mailbox opening animation
  • character approaching mailbox
  • character interacting with fence
  • sequential motion frames
  • dithered grass
  • metal fence sections
  • 14 sampled frames
  • contact sheet layout
  • pixelated rendering
  • character posture changes
  • grass patches on ground

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / youve got mail buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
16.1 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9f2b7a0e4db1235f69afe6661b4b7cb7475e06013f2bdc0d64d633c72bbb1e31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
Archive ID
9f2b7a0e4db1235f
SHA-256
9f2b7a0e4db1235f69afe6661b4b7cb7475e06013f2bdc0d64d633c72bbb1e31
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088463

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914890onnx/unsafe0.088463onnx/nsfw0.049377onnx/nsfl0.039086
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 09:10 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 14 frames of a pixel art character interacting with mailboxes and fences, each frame labeled "You've Got Mail" text below.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 09:10 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
8,202 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,941, response 1,060

Review tags

  • you ve got mail text (text, 1.00)
  • 8 bit style animation (style, 0.95)
  • pixel art character (subject, 0.95)
  • mailbox interaction (action, 0.90)
  • sequential motion frames (animation, 0.90)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.90)
  • green grass patch (object, 0.85)
  • metal fence sections (object, 0.85)

Actions

  • approaching mailbox
  • opening mailbox door
  • interacting with fence
  • standing near fence

Animation

  • character moves between mailboxes and fences
  • mailbox door opens/closes in sequence
  • posture changes from frame to frame

Animation Summary

14-frame pixel art sequence showing cartoon character interacting with mailboxes and fences, displaying sequential motion changes in posture and object interaction while maintaining consistent design elements across all frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • yellow
  • dark gray
  • green
  • light gray

Composition

  • grid layout
  • multiple frames per row
  • consistent character design across frames
  • text below animation content

Dense Caption

Pixel art animation sequence featuring a small cartoon character in blue and white attire with red accents. The character has a round head, simple facial features (black dot eyes), and yellow lower body. In the frames, the character interacts with dark gray mailboxes on green grass patches against a solid light gray background. Some frames show the character opening mailboxes while others depict it standing near black metal fences. Each frame displays white text reading "You've Got Mail" below the animation. The animation progresses through various poses: approaching mailboxes, interacting with mailbox doors (opening/closing), and moving between fence sections. The pixel art style uses limited colors with visible dithering on grass areas. All frames maintain consistent character design but show sequential motion changes in posture and position relative to objects. The contact sheet layout shows 14 sampled animation frames arranged in a grid format, each frame containing the same core elements but different action states.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing 14 frames of a pixel art character interacting with mailboxes and fences, each frame labeled "You've Got Mail" text below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • You've Got Mail character | basis both | confidence high | evidence text and mailbox interaction

Metadata Only Entities

  • badass buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "You've Got Mail" text is visible in all frames
  • character design consistent with "badass buddy" concept

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • simple

Named Entities

  • You've Got Mail

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • you've got mail pixel art animation
  • aol instant messenger mailbox character
  • badass buddy youve got mail icon
  • pixel art mailbox interaction sequence

Objects

  • dark gray mailbox
  • black metal fence
  • green grass patch
  • light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 14 sampled frames arranged in grid layout
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frame count matches sourceFrameCount of 14

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon animation
  • text is standard AOL notification phrase

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / youve got mail buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • mailbox
  • fence

Visible Text

  • You've Got Mail

Visually Supported Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger animation
  • "You've Got Mail" branding

Wordwall

  • pixel art character
  • blue white red attire
  • yellow lower body
  • round head
  • black dot eyes
  • dark gray mailbox
  • green grass patch
  • light gray background
  • "You've Got Mail" text
  • mailbox opening animation
  • character approaching mailbox
  • character interacting with fence
  • sequential motion frames
  • dithered grass
  • metal fence sections
  • 14 sampled frames
  • contact sheet layout
  • pixelated rendering
  • character posture changes
  • grass patches on ground
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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 / youve got mail buddy icon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
mainstream attitude/humor/brand portal icons