A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated skull character with varying text and sparkles across frames, displayed on a gray background.

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A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated skull character with varying text and sparkles across frames, displayed on a gray background.

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated skull character with varying text and sparkles across frames, displayed on a gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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About this icon

Actions

  • text variation

Animation

  • frame 0: 'JACK' top-right, plus signs visible
  • frame 1: 'JACK' top-right with altered spacing, plus signs visible
  • frame 2: 'JACK+' bottom-center, plus signs visible
  • frame 3: 'JACK' bottom-center, plus signs visible

Animation Summary

Four-frame animation showing a white skull character with consistent expression across frames, varying placement of 'JACK' text (top-right or bottom-center) and slight sparkle element changes between frames.

Composition

  • 2x2 grid layout
  • central subject placement
  • text positioned at top-right or bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of four sequential animation frames from an AIM buddy icon. Each frame features a large, stylized white skull with black eye sockets and nose cavity against a dark background. The skull has a wide, toothy grin and appears to be the central subject across all frames. In the top-left corner of each frame, there are small white plus signs forming sparkles or decorative elements. Text reading 'JACK' (with variations in spelling) appears in different positions: top-right in some frames, bottom-center in others. The text uses a pixelated font with brown and black colors. Frame 0 shows 'JACK' at the top-right; frame 1 has 'JACK' at the top-right but with slightly altered letter spacing; frame 2 displays 'JACK+' at the bottom-center; frame 3 shows 'JACK' at the bottom-center without the plus sign. The skull's expression and position remain consistent across frames, while text placement and sparkle elements change between frames. The background is a uniform gray transparency layer typical of AIM buddy icons. Pixelation and dithering effects are visible throughout due to low resolution and compression artifacts common in early digital graphics.

Description

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated skull character with varying text and sparkles across frames, displayed on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

Jack | basis visible|both | confidence 0.7 | evidence: 'JACK' text and skull design matches general Jack Skellington appearance in low-res pixel art

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

Source hints identify the character as Jack Skellington from 'Nightmare Before Christmas', but this cannot be confirmed by visual evidence alone

Metadata Only Entities

  • Jack Skellington
  • Nightmare Before Christmas

Metadata Supported By Image

  • The skull character's name appears to be related to 'JACK' based on visible text
  • The image shows an animated contact sheet consistent with AIM buddy icon format

Named Entities

  • Jack

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated jack skull animation
  • jackson buddy icon 4 frame contact sheet
  • jack skellington pixel art animated icon
  • aim buddy icon jacks text variation
  • nightmare before christmas jack pixel animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • 4-frame contact sheet layout (2x2)
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count of 4
  • gray transparency background for buddy icon display
  • pixelation and dithering artifacts from low-resolution animation

Safety Notes

  • No visible nudity, explicit content, hate symbols, or graphic violence; cartoon skull character with playful text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • Source hints suggest 'Nightmare Before Christmas' character Jack Skellington, with multiple references to 'Jack', but the image itself does not confirm this identity beyond visual similarity to a skull character named Jack.
  • Source hints mention 'MyOldIcons' and 'wayback-originalicons' as archival sources for these icons.

Visible Text

  • JACK
  • JACK+

Visually Supported Entities

  • skull character named JACK
  • pixel art animation style

Wordwall

  • pixelated white skull
  • black eye sockets
  • toothy grin
  • small plus signs
  • sparkle effect
  • 'JACK' text
  • brown pixel font
  • black lettering
  • text variation 'JACK+'
  • bottom-center text placement
  • top-right text placement
  • gray background transparency
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • frame 0 text top-right
  • frame 1 text top-right
  • frame 2 text bottom-center
  • frame 3 text bottom-center
  • pixelated animation frames
  • dithering effects
  • low-resolution graphics
  • dark background contrast
  • skull character expression
  • text placement changes
  • sparkle element consistency

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures

Source title
1132170838_252214463
Category
images / icons / movies / nightmare before christmas
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:51 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / movies / nightmare before christmas
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:46 UTC

Wayback CDX Iconator icons GIF Captures

Source title
ICONATOR_285584b65f61408372a9903294958341
Category
242
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 11:42 UTC

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Top Categories A

Source title
1132170838_252214463
Category
images / icons / movies / nightmare before christmas
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:01 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b03ef9dd654d05be5593e0b1f6cf3e9526ada005d7840a3889ddd4a47effdf7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Archive ID
4b03ef9dd654d05b
SHA-256
4b03ef9dd654d05be5593e0b1f6cf3e9526ada005d7840a3889ddd4a47effdf7
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 11:48 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070523

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.931956onnx/unsafe0.070523onnx/nsfw0.037194onnx/nsfl0.033328
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 04:14 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 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated skull character with varying text and sparkles across frames, displayed on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 04:14 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
17,377 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,137, response 1,366

Review tags

  • pixel art animation (style, 0.95)
  • skull character (subject, 0.95)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.90)
  • 2x2 contact sheet (composition, 0.90)
  • black lettering (text, 0.90)
  • jackson text (text, 0.90)
  • text variation (animation, 0.85)
  • plus signs sparkles (object, 0.85)
  • dithering effects (rendering, 0.85)
  • brown pixel font (text, 0.80)

Actions

  • text variation
  • sparkle display

Animation

  • frame 0: 'JACK' top-right, plus signs visible
  • frame 1: 'JACK' top-right with altered spacing, plus signs visible
  • frame 2: 'JACK+' bottom-center, plus signs visible
  • frame 3: 'JACK' bottom-center, plus signs visible

Animation Summary

Four-frame animation showing a white skull character with consistent expression across frames, varying placement of 'JACK' text (top-right or bottom-center) and slight sparkle element changes between frames.

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • 2x2 grid layout
  • central subject placement
  • text positioned at top-right or bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of four sequential animation frames from an AIM buddy icon. Each frame features a large, stylized white skull with black eye sockets and nose cavity against a dark background. The skull has a wide, toothy grin and appears to be the central subject across all frames. In the top-left corner of each frame, there are small white plus signs forming sparkles or decorative elements. Text reading 'JACK' (with variations in spelling) appears in different positions: top-right in some frames, bottom-center in others. The text uses a pixelated font with brown and black colors. Frame 0 shows 'JACK' at the top-right; frame 1 has 'JACK' at the top-right but with slightly altered letter spacing; frame 2 displays 'JACK+' at the bottom-center; frame 3 shows 'JACK' at the bottom-center without the plus sign. The skull's expression and position remain consistent across frames, while text placement and sparkle elements change between frames. The background is a uniform gray transparency layer typical of AIM buddy icons. Pixelation and dithering effects are visible throughout due to low resolution and compression artifacts common in early digital graphics.

Description

A 4-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated skull character with varying text and sparkles across frames, displayed on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

Jack | basis visible|both | confidence 0.7 | evidence: 'JACK' text and skull design matches general Jack Skellington appearance in low-res pixel art

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

Source hints identify the character as Jack Skellington from 'Nightmare Before Christmas', but this cannot be confirmed by visual evidence alone

Metadata Only Entities

  • Jack Skellington
  • Nightmare Before Christmas

Metadata Supported By Image

  • The skull character's name appears to be related to 'JACK' based on visible text
  • The image shows an animated contact sheet consistent with AIM buddy icon format

Mood

  • playful
  • mysterious
  • cartoonish

Named Entities

  • Jack

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated jack skull animation
  • jackson buddy icon 4 frame contact sheet
  • jack skellington pixel art animated icon
  • aim buddy icon jacks text variation
  • nightmare before christmas jack pixel animation

Objects

  • 'JACK' text
  • 'JACK+' text

Preprocessing Notes

  • 4-frame contact sheet layout (2x2)
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count of 4
  • gray transparency background for buddy icon display
  • pixelation and dithering artifacts from low-resolution animation

Safety Notes

  • No visible nudity, explicit content, hate symbols, or graphic violence; cartoon skull character with playful text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • Source hints suggest 'Nightmare Before Christmas' character Jack Skellington, with multiple references to 'Jack', but the image itself does not confirm this identity beyond visual similarity to a skull character named Jack.
  • Source hints mention 'MyOldIcons' and 'wayback-originalicons' as archival sources for these icons.

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • dithered graphics

Subjects

  • white skull character
  • plus signs

Visible Text

  • JACK
  • JACK+

Visually Supported Entities

  • skull character named JACK
  • pixel art animation style

Wordwall

  • pixelated white skull
  • black eye sockets
  • toothy grin
  • small plus signs
  • sparkle effect
  • 'JACK' text
  • brown pixel font
  • black lettering
  • text variation 'JACK+'
  • bottom-center text placement
  • top-right text placement
  • gray background transparency
  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • frame 0 text top-right
  • frame 1 text top-right
  • frame 2 text bottom-center
  • frame 3 text bottom-center
  • pixelated animation frames
  • dithering effects
  • low-resolution graphics
  • dark background contrast
  • skull character expression
  • text placement changes
  • sparkle element consistency
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Full source records (4)

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 / movies / nightmare before christmas
Alt
1132170838_252214463
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:51 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 / movies / nightmare before christmas
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1132170838_252214463.gif | minisqueaks7 Jack | animated | myoldicons id 181916
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:46 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

Wayback CDX Iconator icons GIF Captures (wayback-iconator-icons-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
242
Alt
ICONATOR_285584b65f61408372a9903294958341
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 11:42 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
Iconator plural icons asset host with broad user-submitted GIF captures

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Top Categories A (wayback-originalicons-image-icons-gifs-top-categories-a)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
images / icons / movies / nightmare before christmas
Alt
1132170838_252214463
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:01 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
focused OriginalIcons GIF category folders split from the broad /images/icons/ CDX target