A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a distorted clown face with red striped background and changing text across the bottom in pixelated font.

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A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a distorted clown face with red striped background and changing text across the bottom in pixelated font.

A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a distorted clown face with red striped background and changing text across the bottom in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Animation

  • frame 0-2: text changes from HOUSE to OF
  • frame 3-5: text changes from OF to 1,000
  • frame 6-8: text changes from 1,000 to CORPSES
  • clown figure remains consistent across all frames

Animation Summary

A 9-frame animation where the bottom banner text changes sequentially from 'HOUSE' to 'OF' to '1,000' to 'CORPSES' while maintaining a consistent distorted clown figure against red stripes.

Composition

  • 3x3 grid layout
  • horizontal stripes in background
  • text on solid banner at bottom of each frame

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid of sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a distorted, pale-skinned clown-like figure with exaggerated blue eyebrows, dark eye sockets, pink cheek marks, and a wide open mouth showing teeth against a background of horizontal red stripes. The bottom portion of each frame contains a solid red banner with pixelated white text that changes across frames: the first row shows 'HOUSE', 'HOUSE', 'OF'; the second row shows 'OF', '1,000', '1,000'; and the third row shows '1,000', 'CORPSES', 'CORPSES'. The animation consists of sequential text changes across frames while the clown figure remains visually consistent. The image has a gray transparent background with white dotted borders between cells. Each frame is 48x48 pixels in size as part of the original icon design, and the full contact sheet measures 768x768 pixels. The visual style uses low-resolution pixel art typical of early internet graphics with visible dithering on the clown's face and text edges.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a distorted clown face with red striped background and changing text across the bottom in pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • House of 1,000 Corpses | basis both | confidence high | evidence text sequence matches film title and horror aesthetic

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • character identity not confirmed by pixels alone
  • exact title confirmation impossible from text-only evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • House of 1000 Corpses (film)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text sequence matches 'House of 1,000 Corpses' phrase structure
  • clown figure style consistent with horror movie aesthetic

Named Entities

  • House of 1,000 Corpses | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • distorted clown house of 1000 corpses
  • house of 1000 corpses pixel art animation
  • clown figure red stripes text change

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • sampled frame count 9
  • source frame count 9
  • gray transparent background with white dotted borders between cells
  • review image size 768x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • text contains 'corpses' which is non-explicit but may be considered adult language in context

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'House of 1000 Corpses' reference but do not confirm character identity or exact title
  • hints include 'wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs', 'icns / movies', and 'buddypics' categories

Visible Text

  • HOUSE
  • OF
  • 1,000
  • CORPSES

Visually Supported Entities

  • horror-themed icon
  • text-based animation

Wordwall

  • distorted clown face
  • pale skin
  • blue eyebrows
  • pink cheek marks
  • wide open mouth
  • teeth
  • red striped background
  • solid red banner
  • pixelated white text
  • text changes across frames
  • 3x3 contact sheet
  • gray transparent background
  • white dotted borders
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering on face
  • dithering on text edges
  • horizontal red stripes
  • exaggerated facial features
  • clown figure consistent across frames
  • frame 0: HOUSE
  • frame 1: HOUSE
  • frame 2: OF
  • frame 3: OF
  • frame 4: 1,000
  • frame 5: 1,000
  • frame 6: 1,000
  • frame 7: CORPSES
  • frame 8: CORPSES

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GIF Captures

Source title
657
Category
icns / movies / 657
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:40 UTC

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
1165_55397
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / 1165 55397
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:14 UTC

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Featured Category Portal Shard

Source title
Movies icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / movies / page398 / movies icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 21:45 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
692
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:58 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/2b/2b5241f6200b6598914fa23f8a2a2b7114f8291c61c98e1be0013c70240c7a7a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
Archive ID
2b5241f6200b6598
SHA-256
2b5241f6200b6598914fa23f8a2a2b7114f8291c61c98e1be0013c70240c7a7a
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134320

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.880098onnx/unsafe0.134320onnx/nsfw0.098133onnx/nsfl0.036187
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-importprovider flaggedprovider review
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 11:22 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
questionable
Overall score
0.850000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review1.000000truelegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
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A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a distorted clown face with red striped background and changing text across the bottom in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 11:22 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,370 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,002, response 1,379

Review tags

  • text changes across frames (animation, 0.95)
  • distorted clown face (subject, 0.95)
  • clown figure consistent across frames (animation, 0.90)
  • red striped background (background, 0.90)
  • pixelated white text (text, 0.90)
  • low resolution pixel art (style, 0.85)
  • gray transparent background (background, 0.80)
  • horror themed icon (theme, 0.80)
  • dithering on face edges (rendering, 0.75)
  • dithering on text edges (rendering, 0.75)
  • house of 1000 corpses reference (text, 0.75)

Actions

  • text changes across frames

Animation

  • frame 0-2: text changes from HOUSE to OF
  • frame 3-5: text changes from OF to 1,000
  • frame 6-8: text changes from 1,000 to CORPSES
  • clown figure remains consistent across all frames

Animation Summary

A 9-frame animation where the bottom banner text changes sequentially from 'HOUSE' to 'OF' to '1,000' to 'CORPSES' while maintaining a consistent distorted clown figure against red stripes.

Colors

  • pale skin
  • blue
  • pink
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • 3x3 grid layout
  • horizontal stripes in background
  • text on solid banner at bottom of each frame

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid of sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a distorted, pale-skinned clown-like figure with exaggerated blue eyebrows, dark eye sockets, pink cheek marks, and a wide open mouth showing teeth against a background of horizontal red stripes. The bottom portion of each frame contains a solid red banner with pixelated white text that changes across frames: the first row shows 'HOUSE', 'HOUSE', 'OF'; the second row shows 'OF', '1,000', '1,000'; and the third row shows '1,000', 'CORPSES', 'CORPSES'. The animation consists of sequential text changes across frames while the clown figure remains visually consistent. The image has a gray transparent background with white dotted borders between cells. Each frame is 48x48 pixels in size as part of the original icon design, and the full contact sheet measures 768x768 pixels. The visual style uses low-resolution pixel art typical of early internet graphics with visible dithering on the clown's face and text edges.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a distorted clown face with red striped background and changing text across the bottom in pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • House of 1,000 Corpses | basis both | confidence high | evidence text sequence matches film title and horror aesthetic

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • character identity not confirmed by pixels alone
  • exact title confirmation impossible from text-only evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • House of 1000 Corpses (film)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text sequence matches 'House of 1,000 Corpses' phrase structure
  • clown figure style consistent with horror movie aesthetic

Mood

  • unsettling
  • disturbing
  • creepy

Named Entities

  • House of 1,000 Corpses | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • distorted clown house of 1000 corpses
  • house of 1000 corpses pixel art animation
  • clown figure red stripes text change

Objects

  • red striped background
  • solid red banner
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • sampled frame count 9
  • source frame count 9
  • gray transparent background with white dotted borders between cells
  • review image size 768x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • text contains 'corpses' which is non-explicit but may be considered adult language in context

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'House of 1000 Corpses' reference but do not confirm character identity or exact title
  • hints include 'wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs', 'icns / movies', and 'buddypics' categories

Style

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering
  • retro internet graphics

Subjects

  • clown figure

Visible Text

  • HOUSE
  • OF
  • 1,000
  • CORPSES

Visually Supported Entities

  • horror-themed icon
  • text-based animation

Wordwall

  • distorted clown face
  • pale skin
  • blue eyebrows
  • pink cheek marks
  • wide open mouth
  • teeth
  • red striped background
  • solid red banner
  • pixelated white text
  • text changes across frames
  • 3x3 contact sheet
  • gray transparent background
  • white dotted borders
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering on face
  • dithering on text edges
  • horizontal red stripes
  • exaggerated facial features
  • clown figure consistent across frames
  • frame 0: HOUSE
  • frame 1: HOUSE
  • frame 2: OF
  • frame 3: OF
  • frame 4: 1,000
  • frame 5: 1,000
  • frame 6: 1,000
  • frame 7: CORPSES
  • frame 8: CORPSES
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Full source records (4)

Wayback CDX BuddyIcon.org GIF Captures (wayback-buddyicon-org-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
icns / movies / 657
Alt
657
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:40 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal with category-path icon folders

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / 1165 55397
Alt
1165_55397
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:14 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Featured Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-featured-categories-portal)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / movies / page398 / movies icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Movies icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
House of corpes
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 21:45 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM icon portal spanning entertainment, fandom, personal identity, dolls, games, and animals

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
692
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:58 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture