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A pixelated image of a man's face with a neutral expression, surrounded by repeated 'HOUSE OF WAX' text in teal and white on a black background.

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Pixel-exact
0
Perceptual
6
pHash distance
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A pixelated image of a man's face with a neutral expression, surrounded by repeated 'HOUSE OF WAX' text in teal and white on a black background.

A pixelated image of a man's face with a neutral expression, surrounded by repeated 'HOUSE OF WAX' text in teal and white on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears to be a static frame with repeated text and a central portrait.

Composition

  • central portrait
  • repeated text
  • layered text
  • multiple orientations

Dense Caption

The image contains a central pixelated portrait of a man with short hair and a neutral expression against a black background. Surrounding the portrait are multiple instances of the text 'HOUSE OF WAX' in teal and white, with some instances partially obscured or distorted. The text appears in various sizes and orientations, creating a layered effect. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation, characteristic of early digital graphics. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

A pixelated image of a man's face with a neutral expression, surrounded by repeated 'HOUSE OF WAX' text in teal and white on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • 7083
  • buddy-icons-info
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • man house of wax
  • house of wax pixelated
  • teal white text black background
  • low resolution house of wax
  • repeated house of wax text
  • pixelated man neutral expression
  • house of wax central portrait
  • text layered house of wax

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence, but no motion changes are visible in the provided frame.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Uncertain Text

  • HOJSL
  • WAX

Visible Text

  • HOUSE OF WAX

Wordwall

  • man's face
  • neutral expression
  • short hair
  • black background
  • teal text
  • white text
  • HOUSE OF WAX
  • pixelated
  • repeated text
  • distorted text
  • low-resolution
  • layered text
  • central portrait
  • text in multiple sizes
  • text in multiple orientations

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
7083
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:59 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.7 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a30e4a1500399e41aa7c68f1641ec8fe69355de2f4fd69213094df8b93817807.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 00:59 UTC
Archive ID
a30e4a1500399e41
SHA-256
a30e4a1500399e41aa7c68f1641ec8fe69355de2f4fd69213094df8b93817807
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106721

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926273onnx/unsafe0.106721onnx/nsfw0.070152onnx/nsfl0.036569
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a man's face with a neutral expression, surrounded by repeated 'HOUSE OF WAX' text in teal and white on a black background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 20:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,454 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,055, response 819

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears to be a static frame with repeated text and a central portrait.

Colors

  • black
  • teal
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • central portrait
  • repeated text
  • layered text
  • multiple orientations

Dense Caption

The image contains a central pixelated portrait of a man with short hair and a neutral expression against a black background. Surrounding the portrait are multiple instances of the text 'HOUSE OF WAX' in teal and white, with some instances partially obscured or distorted. The text appears in various sizes and orientations, creating a layered effect. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation, characteristic of early digital graphics. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

A pixelated image of a man's face with a neutral expression, surrounded by repeated 'HOUSE OF WAX' text in teal and white on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • 7083
  • buddy-icons-info
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • man house of wax
  • house of wax pixelated
  • teal white text black background
  • low resolution house of wax
  • repeated house of wax text
  • pixelated man neutral expression
  • house of wax central portrait
  • text layered house of wax

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence, but no motion changes are visible in the provided frame.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • man

Uncertain Text

  • HOJSL
  • WAX

Visible Text

  • HOUSE OF WAX

Wordwall

  • man's face
  • neutral expression
  • short hair
  • black background
  • teal text
  • white text
  • HOUSE OF WAX
  • pixelated
  • repeated text
  • distorted text
  • low-resolution
  • layered text
  • central portrait
  • text in multiple sizes
  • text in multiple orientations
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 05:11 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
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
7083
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:59 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
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/7083.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122125253id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/7083.gif