Pixelated animated contact sheet of Elmo's face showing eye and mouth movements across nine frames on a cyan background with red lower half.

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Pixelated animated contact sheet of Elmo's face showing eye and mouth movements across nine frames on a cyan background with red lower half.

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Animation

  • leftmost eyes wide open
  • middle frames eye shift inward
  • rightmost eyes squinted/closed
  • progressive eye movement sequence

Animation Summary

Progressive eye movement animation showing Elmo's facial expression changing from wide-eyed to squinted across nine frames in a 3x3 contact sheet layout

Composition

  • upper face portion
  • fixed position
  • consistent framing across frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x3 grid of pixelated animation frames featuring the upper portion of Elmo's face against a solid cyan background. Each frame shows Elmo's large white eyes with black pupils, yellow nose/mouth area, and red lower facial region. The animation sequence demonstrates subtle eye movements across nine sampled frames: leftmost eyes show wide-open expression (pupils positioned toward outer corners), middle frames depict slightly narrowed or shifted eyes (pupils moving inward), rightmost frames display more closed or squinted eyes (pupils near center). All frames maintain consistent color scheme of cyan background, red lower face, white eyes with black pupils, and yellow nose/mouth. The pixelated style suggests low-resolution digital art typical of early internet animation. Each frame is identical in composition but shows progressive eye movement from open to closed states across the sequence.

Description

  • Pixelated animated contact sheet of Elmo's face showing eye and mouth movements across nine frames on a cyan background with red lower half.

Fandoms

  • Sesame Street

Identity Hypotheses

Elmo | basis visible | confidence high | evidence: distinctive eyes, nose/mouth shape, red lower face matching Sesame Street character design

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Elmo face
  • cyan background
  • red lower face
  • pixelated animation
  • eye movements
  • 3x3 grid layout

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo face pixelated animation cyan background red lower face eye movements 3x3 grid

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • sampled frame count 9
  • source frame count 9
  • gray transparency background not visible in this contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: 1ed086a0185d09f853d7d6b5e2a77916 | category: icon / iconupload / buddypics

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sesame Street character Elmo

Wordwall

  • Elmo face
  • cyan background
  • red lower face
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • yellow nose/mouth
  • pixelated animation
  • eye movements
  • open eyes
  • narrowed eyes
  • squinted eyes
  • 3x3 grid
  • nine frames
  • frame-by-frame animation
  • wide-open expression
  • pupils toward outer corners
  • pupils moving inward
  • pupils near center
  • consistent color scheme
  • low-resolution digital art

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
1ed086a0185d09f853d7d6b5e2a77916
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / 1ed086a0185d09f853d7d6b5e2a77916
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:15 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1013 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e1656b710fc00821bdcda88f1216db3b7e65c2b04289a820ce80e36bc8d161a8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
e1656b710fc00821
SHA-256
e1656b710fc00821bdcda88f1216db3b7e65c2b04289a820ce80e36bc8d161a8
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075881

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926442onnx/unsafe0.075881onnx/nsfw0.041679onnx/nsfl0.034202
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Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
27
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

Pixelated animated contact sheet of Elmo's face showing eye and mouth movements across nine frames on a cyan background with red lower half.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
11,114 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,023, response 1,116

Review tags

  • eye movements (animation, 0.95)
  • elmo (character, 0.95)
  • pixelated animation (style, 0.95)
  • cyan background (color scheme, 0.90)
  • red lower face (color scheme, 0.90)
  • 3x3 grid (layout, 0.90)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.90)
  • squinted eyes (expression, 0.85)
  • wide eyed expression (expression, 0.85)

Actions

  • eye movements
  • progressive eye narrowing
  • squinting animation

Animation

  • leftmost eyes wide open
  • middle frames eye shift inward
  • rightmost eyes squinted/closed
  • progressive eye movement sequence

Animation Summary

Progressive eye movement animation showing Elmo's facial expression changing from wide-eyed to squinted across nine frames in a 3x3 contact sheet layout

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • upper face portion
  • fixed position
  • consistent framing across frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x3 grid of pixelated animation frames featuring the upper portion of Elmo's face against a solid cyan background. Each frame shows Elmo's large white eyes with black pupils, yellow nose/mouth area, and red lower facial region. The animation sequence demonstrates subtle eye movements across nine sampled frames: leftmost eyes show wide-open expression (pupils positioned toward outer corners), middle frames depict slightly narrowed or shifted eyes (pupils moving inward), rightmost frames display more closed or squinted eyes (pupils near center). All frames maintain consistent color scheme of cyan background, red lower face, white eyes with black pupils, and yellow nose/mouth. The pixelated style suggests low-resolution digital art typical of early internet animation. Each frame is identical in composition but shows progressive eye movement from open to closed states across the sequence.

Description

  • Pixelated animated contact sheet of Elmo's face showing eye and mouth movements across nine frames on a cyan background with red lower half.

Fandoms

  • Sesame Street

Identity Hypotheses

Elmo | basis visible | confidence high | evidence: distinctive eyes, nose/mouth shape, red lower face matching Sesame Street character design

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Elmo face
  • cyan background
  • red lower face
  • pixelated animation
  • eye movements
  • 3x3 grid layout

Mood

  • playful
  • animated
  • expressive

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo face pixelated animation cyan background red lower face eye movements 3x3 grid

Objects

  • cyan background
  • 3x3 grid layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • sampled frame count 9
  • source frame count 9
  • gray transparency background not visible in this contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: 1ed086a0185d09f853d7d6b5e2a77916 | category: icon / iconupload / buddypics

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art
  • cartoon style

Subjects

  • Elmo face
  • eyes
  • nose/mouth area
  • red lower facial region

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sesame Street character Elmo

Wordwall

  • Elmo face
  • cyan background
  • red lower face
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • yellow nose/mouth
  • pixelated animation
  • eye movements
  • open eyes
  • narrowed eyes
  • squinted eyes
  • 3x3 grid
  • nine frames
  • frame-by-frame animation
  • wide-open expression
  • pupils toward outer corners
  • pupils moving inward
  • pupils near center
  • consistent color scheme
  • low-resolution digital art
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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 / 1ed086a0185d09f853d7d6b5e2a77916
Alt
1ed086a0185d09f853d7d6b5e2a77916
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:15 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage