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Animated contact sheet showing a desert sphinx icon with text gradually forming "MYSTERY" across eight frames, set against palm trees and blue sky on yellow sand background.
Animated contact sheet showing a desert sphinx icon with text gradually forming "MYSTERY" across eight frames, set against palm trees and blue sky on yellow sand background. Anima…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
Dr. Sloth Neopets AIM Icons
- Source title
- aim_desert_sphinx.gif | Neopets Image Emporium
- Category
- drsloth / AIM Icons
- Era
- Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 05:58 UTC
Somnolescent Neopets AIM Buddy Icons
- Source title
- Neopets Buddy Icons (Locations) | The Somnolescent Archives
- Category
- hoards / neopets aim icons / locations / neopets buddy icons locations the somnolescent archives
- Era
- Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
- Observed
- July 10, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
Internet Archive Neopets AIM Icons
- Source title
- aim_desert_sphinx
- Era
- Early-to-Mid-2000s Virtual Pet Fandom
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 2.7 KB
- Motion
- Animated (8 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/db/dbd96f2ed750304fda648dd2610942442921db195cc090bf4a28fd599fcac663.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
- Archive ID
- dbd96f2ed750304f
- SHA-256
- dbd96f2ed750304fda648dd2610942442921db195cc090bf4a28fd599fcac663
Content-safety assessments (2)
- 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
- 0.081369
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 12, 2026 at 08:12 UTC
- Run
- 28
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Animated contact sheet showing a desert sphinx icon with text gradually forming "MYSTERY" across eight frames, set against palm trees and blue sky on yellow sand background.
- Reviewed
- July 12, 2026 at 08:12 UTC
- Run
- 28
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 15,624 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 3,014, response 1,098
Review tags
- text animation (animation, 0.95)
- sphinx statue (subject, 0.95)
- mystery text (text, 0.95)
- brown text (color, 0.90)
- palm trees (object, 0.90)
- desert landscape (setting, 0.90)
- pixel art (style, 0.90)
- stone base (object, 0.85)
Actions
- text formation animation
Animation
- sequential text appearance from left to right top-to-bottom frames
Animation Summary
- Text forms sequentially from "M" to "MYSTERY" across eight frames while background remains static
Colors
- golden-brown
- yellow
- light blue
- brown
- green
Composition
- centered sphinx on stone base, palm trees in background
Dense Caption
Pixel art animation of a golden-brown sphinx statue lying prone on a rectangular stone base in a desert landscape. The sphinx has a human head with headdress, lion body, and paws resting on the base. Background features light blue sky, three palm trees (two left, one right), and yellow sand. Text appears sequentially across frames: first "M" then "MY", "MYS", "MYST", "MYSTE", "MYSTER", finally "MYSTERY" in brown pixelated font at bottom center of each frame. Animation progresses from left-to-right top row to middle row, ending with full text on the rightmost frame. All frames share identical background and sphinx pose; only text changes between frames. The animation is a contact sheet showing all eight sampled frames arranged 3x3 grid (last cell empty).
Description
Animated contact sheet showing a desert sphinx icon with text gradually forming "MYSTERY" across eight frames, set against palm trees and blue sky on yellow sand background.
Fandoms
- Neopets
Identity Hypotheses
- Mystery Sphinx | basis both | confidence high | evidence text forming MYSTERY and sphinx statue
Metadata Only Entities
- drsloth-neopets-aim-icons
- somnolescent-neopets
Metadata Supported By Image
- Neopets reference (suggested by source hints but not visible in pixels)
- desert sphinx theme (matches visual content)
Mood
- mysterious
Named Entities
- Mystery Sphinx
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- desert sphinx mystery text animation
- aim buddy icon mystery sphinx
- neopets desert sphinx animation
- pixel art sphinx text formation
- mystery sphinx aim icon
- sphinx desert animation text
Objects
- stone base
- pixelated font
Preprocessing Notes
contact sheet with 3x3 grid layout (last cell empty), sampled frame count 8, source frame count 8, gray transparency background not part of icon content
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon sphinx, no nudity or violence
Source Metadata Interpretation
drsloth-neopets-aim-icons: suggests Neopets-related AIM buddy icon; title "aim_desert_sphinx.gif" implies desert sphinx theme; tags include "lost desert sphinx mystery" and "neopets aim icons locations"
Style
- 8-bit pixel art
Subjects
- sphinx statue
- palm trees
- sand dunes
Visible Text
- M
- MY
- MYS
- MYST
- MYSTE
- MYSTER
- MYSTERY
Visually Supported Entities
- Neopets
- AIM buddy icon
Wordwall
- golden-brown sphinx statue
- prone lion-human hybrid
- rectangular stone base
- yellow sand desert
- light blue sky
- three palm trees
- palm tree left side
- palm tree right side
- brown pixelated text
- text forming MYSTERY
- M text frame
- MY text frame
- MYS text frame
- MYST text frame
- MYSTE text frame
- MYSTER text frame
- MYSTERY text frame
- desert landscape background
Raw JSON
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}Source semantic tags (24)
Full source records (3)
Dr. Sloth Neopets AIM Icons (drsloth-neopets-aim-icons)
- Kind
- static-gallery
- Era
- Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
- Type
- tagged image database category
- Category
- drsloth / AIM Icons
- Title
- aim_desert_sphinx.gif | Neopets Image Emporium
- Alt
- aim_desert_sphinx | AIM Icons | tags aim buddy icons animated lost desert sphinx mystery
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 05:58 UTC
- Rights
- licensed Neopets assets indexed by a fan database; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- tagged Neopets AIM icon database with official asset URLs, dimensions, category, and free-form subject tags
Original: https://images.neopets.com/images/buddy/aim_desert_sphinx.gif Download: https://images.neopets.com/images/buddy/aim_desert_sphinx.gif Page: https://www.drsloth.com/view/10488/
Somnolescent Neopets AIM Buddy Icons (somnolescent-neopets)
- Kind
- static-gallery
- Era
- Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
- Type
- curated static archive
- Category
- hoards / neopets aim icons / locations / neopets buddy icons locations the somnolescent archives
- Title
- Neopets Buddy Icons (Locations) | The Somnolescent Archives
- Observed
- July 10, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
- Rights
- download-friendly archive, still verify before product redistribution
- Slice
- official virtual-pet/game-community promotional icons
Original: https://archives.somnolescent.net/hoards/neopets-aim-icons/locations/aim_desert_sphinx.gif Download: https://archives.somnolescent.net/hoards/neopets-aim-icons/locations/aim_desert_sphinx.gif Page: https://archives.somnolescent.net/hoards/neopets-aim-icons/locations.html
Internet Archive Neopets AIM Icons (internet-archive-neopets-meteor-aim-icons)
- Kind
- internet-archive-item
- Era
- Early-to-Mid-2000s Virtual Pet Fandom
- Type
- Internet Archive item with hundreds of original AIM image members
- Title
- aim_desert_sphinx
- Alt
- aim_desert_sphinx
- Archive entry
- aim_desert_sphinx.gif
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
- Rights
- copyrighted game imagery; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- broad Neopets species, character, item, and site-culture AIM icons
Original: https://archive.org/download/aim_icon_meteor/aim_desert_sphinx.gif#aim_desert_sphinx.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/aim_icon_meteor/aim_desert_sphinx.gif#aim_desert_sphinx.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/aim_icon_meteor