A 3x3 contact sheet of a pixelated animated icon featuring the same character with varying facial expressions across nine frames, each labeled with text at the bottom.

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A 3x3 contact sheet of a pixelated animated icon featuring the same character with varying facial expressions across nine frames, each labeled with text at the bottom.

A 3x3 contact sheet of a pixelated animated icon featuring the same character with varying facial expressions across nine frames, each labeled with text at the bottom. Animated 48…

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About this icon

Actions

  • facial expression change

Animation

  • frame-to-frame changes include eye shape (wide to squinting) and mouth position (smiling with teeth)

Animation Summary

  • nine-frame animation with varying facial expressions showing eye and mouth position changes across frames

Composition

  • close-up portrait in 3x3 grid

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid contact sheet containing nine identical-sized animation frames. Each frame shows a close-up of a person's face against a green striped background. The character has brown hair and light skin tone. Facial expressions vary across frames: some show wide eyes, others squinting or smiling with teeth visible. Below each face is text in white pixelated font on dark green background; top row reads 'prop', middle row 'dead', bottom row 'fred'. All frames share the same character design but differ slightly in eye shape and mouth position. The grid has a thin white dotted border around each frame, set against a gray transparent background typical of AIM buddy icons. Each frame is 48x48 pixels with visible pixelation and dithering effects common to early digital graphics.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of a pixelated animated icon featuring the same character with varying facial expressions across nine frames, each labeled with text at the bottom.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Melo | basis metadata-compatible | 0.6 | source hints mention 'candicanez000 Melo' but no visual evidence of this identity

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • character identity as 'Melo' is unconfirmed by visible pixels; source hints mention 'candicanez000 Melo' but no visual evidence of this name or character
  • source hints suggest 'animated | myoldicons id 190293' which matches the animation frame count and contact sheet layout

Metadata Only Entities

  • Melo character name
  • MyOldIcons category
  • candicanez000 username

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text labels 'prop', 'dead', 'fred' match frame rows

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face green striped background prop dead fred animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3, sampled frame count 9, gray transparent background for AIM buddy icons

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon face, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'Melo' character name and 'MyOldIcons' category but do not specify text labels or animation details

Visible Text

  • prop
  • dead
  • fred

Visually Supported Entities

  • text labels 'prop', 'dead', 'fred'
  • pixelated face with brown hair
  • green striped background

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • green striped background
  • white text on dark green
  • top row 'prop'
  • middle row 'dead'
  • bottom row 'fred'
  • wide eyes expression
  • squinting eyes expression
  • smiling mouth with teeth
  • varied facial expressions
  • 3x3 grid layout
  • thin white dotted border
  • gray transparent background
  • pixelation and dithering effects
  • identical character design
  • frame-to-frame eye shape variation
  • frame-to-frame mouth position variation

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures

Source title
1111369628_1649162600
Category
images / icons / people / assorted people 2
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:52 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / people / assorted people
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:09 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/78f7404b9e31b5c5228ee22a09565c17c761c9b2a687c26f04eb81027e2bf438.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Archive ID
78f7404b9e31b5c5
SHA-256
78f7404b9e31b5c5228ee22a09565c17c761c9b2a687c26f04eb81027e2bf438
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Run
72
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001573

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence/graphic0.001573falseviolence0.000609falseself-harm0.000464falseself-harm/intent0.000213falseharassment0.000026falsesexual0.000010falseharassment/threatening0.000005falseillicit0.000005falsehate0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/violence1.000000textenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:24 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080275

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925918onnx/unsafe0.080275onnx/nsfw0.047382onnx/nsfl0.032894
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 05:59 UTC
Run
28
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 3x3 contact sheet of a pixelated animated icon featuring the same character with varying facial expressions across nine frames, each labeled with text at the bottom.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 05:59 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
17,984 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,055, response 1,033

Review tags

  • pixelated face (subject, 0.95)
  • prop dead fred labels (text, 0.95)
  • white text on dark green (text, 0.95)
  • green striped background (background, 0.90)
  • 3x3 grid layout (composition, 0.90)
  • pixelation dithering effects (style, 0.90)
  • brown hair (subject, 0.90)
  • facial expression change (action, 0.85)
  • gray transparent background (background, 0.85)

Actions

  • facial expression change

Animation

  • frame-to-frame changes include eye shape (wide to squinting) and mouth position (smiling with teeth)

Animation Summary

  • nine-frame animation with varying facial expressions showing eye and mouth position changes across frames

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • brown
  • gray
  • dark green

Composition

  • close-up portrait in 3x3 grid

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid contact sheet containing nine identical-sized animation frames. Each frame shows a close-up of a person's face against a green striped background. The character has brown hair and light skin tone. Facial expressions vary across frames: some show wide eyes, others squinting or smiling with teeth visible. Below each face is text in white pixelated font on dark green background; top row reads 'prop', middle row 'dead', bottom row 'fred'. All frames share the same character design but differ slightly in eye shape and mouth position. The grid has a thin white dotted border around each frame, set against a gray transparent background typical of AIM buddy icons. Each frame is 48x48 pixels with visible pixelation and dithering effects common to early digital graphics.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of a pixelated animated icon featuring the same character with varying facial expressions across nine frames, each labeled with text at the bottom.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Melo | basis metadata-compatible | 0.6 | source hints mention 'candicanez000 Melo' but no visual evidence of this identity

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • character identity as 'Melo' is unconfirmed by visible pixels; source hints mention 'candicanez000 Melo' but no visual evidence of this name or character
  • source hints suggest 'animated | myoldicons id 190293' which matches the animation frame count and contact sheet layout

Metadata Only Entities

  • Melo character name
  • MyOldIcons category
  • candicanez000 username

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text labels 'prop', 'dead', 'fred' match frame rows

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face green striped background prop dead fred animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3, sampled frame count 9, gray transparent background for AIM buddy icons

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon face, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'Melo' character name and 'MyOldIcons' category but do not specify text labels or animation details

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • person's face

Visible Text

  • prop
  • dead
  • fred

Visually Supported Entities

  • text labels 'prop', 'dead', 'fred'
  • pixelated face with brown hair
  • green striped background

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • green striped background
  • white text on dark green
  • top row 'prop'
  • middle row 'dead'
  • bottom row 'fred'
  • wide eyes expression
  • squinting eyes expression
  • smiling mouth with teeth
  • varied facial expressions
  • 3x3 grid layout
  • thin white dotted border
  • gray transparent background
  • pixelation and dithering effects
  • identical character design
  • frame-to-frame eye shape variation
  • frame-to-frame mouth position variation
Raw JSON
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Full source records (2)

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-image-icons-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
images / icons / people / assorted people 2
Alt
1111369628_1649162600
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
OriginalIcons category image folders with celebrity, entertainment, holiday, and user-submitted buddy icons

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / people / assorted people
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1116015058_1389846830.gif | candicanez000 Melo | animated | myoldicons id 190293
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:09 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata