A 5x5 contact sheet of a black-and-white animated icon showing progressive text changes from 'E' to 'ER' to 'ERO' and finally 'BROKEN', with consistent facial features across frames.

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A 5x5 contact sheet of a black-and-white animated icon showing progressive text changes from 'E' to 'ER' to 'ERO' and finally 'BROKEN', with consistent facial features across frames.

A 5x5 contact sheet of a black-and-white animated icon showing progressive text changes from 'E' to 'ER' to 'ERO' and finally 'BROKEN', with consistent facial features across fram…

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Animation

  • text changes per frame
  • progressive letter addition

Animation Summary

A 25-frame contact sheet showing a black-and-white animation where white pixelated text changes sequentially from 'E' through multiple intermediate forms until reaching the final word 'BROKEN', with all frames maintaining identical facial features and background.

Composition

  • centered face
  • text below face
  • 5x5 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image is a 5x5 contact sheet displaying 25 sampled frames from an animated icon. Each frame shows the same grayscale face with short dark hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression against a black background. The animation progresses through text changes: starting with 'E' in the top-left frame, then adding letters to form 'ER', 'ERO', 'EROK', 'EROKF', 'EROKFE', 'EROKFEN', and finally 'BROKEN'. Text appears in white pixelated font positioned below the face. The animation is a sequential text reveal where each frame adds one character until the full word 'BROKEN' forms. All frames maintain identical facial features, pose, and background; only the visible text changes between frames. The icon has no additional props or symbols beyond the face and text. The image uses grayscale with high contrast between white text/face and black background.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of a black-and-white animated icon showing progressive text changes from 'E' to 'ER' to 'ERO' and finally 'BROKEN', with consistent facial features across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • BROKEN | basis visible | confidence high | evidence progressive text reveal from E to BROKEN

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 'cute' aesthetic (face is neutral, not expressive)
  • specific 'Cute146' branding or character identity

Metadata Only Entities

  • Cute146
  • cute buddyicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • grayscale animation
  • text progression
  • pixelated font style

Named Entities

  • BROKEN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BROKEN animation icon
  • E to BROKEN pixel art
  • grayscale face text reveal
  • 48x48 broken buddy icon
  • pixelated text animation 5x5 contact sheet

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 25 sampled frames from source animation (34 total)
  • frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom
  • gray transparency background visible in contact sheet rendering

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit text progression, no nudity or violence

Source Metadata Interpretation

alt: Cute146 | category: icon / cute buddyicons / cute146 | url: Cute146 suggests a 'cute' animated icon with possible fandom reference to 'Cute146'

Visible Text

  • E
  • ER
  • ERO
  • EROK
  • EROKF
  • EROKFE
  • EROKFN
  • BROKEN

Visually Supported Entities

  • BROKEN text sequence

Wordwall

  • black-and-white animation
  • grayscale face
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • white pixelated text
  • text progression
  • E to ER transition
  • ER to ERO transition
  • ERO to EROK transition
  • EROK to EROKF transition
  • EROKF to EROKFE transition
  • EROKFE to EROKFN transition
  • EROKFN to BROKEN transition
  • BROKEN text final frame
  • face remains static
  • text changes per frame
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • grayscale rendering
  • 48x48 icon size
  • contact sheet layout
  • 5x5 grid
  • sampled frames 0-33
  • animation sequence
  • no additional props
  • consistent facial features

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
Cute146
Category
icon / cute buddyicons / cute146
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:06 UTC

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_shroomfan64_broken
Category
IconHell/Death
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (34 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a15ece0e5d952531d25872e58d39c0a90150306a317dc7f87b6f44acc81a6ac0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
a15ece0e5d952531
SHA-256
a15ece0e5d952531d25872e58d39c0a90150306a317dc7f87b6f44acc81a6ac0
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087604

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919391onnx/unsafe0.087604onnx/nsfw0.048210onnx/nsfl0.039393
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
26
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.900000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A 5x5 contact sheet of a black-and-white animated icon showing progressive text changes from 'E' to 'ER' to 'ERO' and finally 'BROKEN', with consistent facial features across frames.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
26
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,320 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,566, response 1,231

Review tags

  • pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • animation frame (animation, 0.90)
  • text progression (animation, 0.90)
  • text reveal (animation, 0.90)
  • contact sheet (composition, 0.90)
  • grayscale animation (style, 0.90)
  • broke (subject, 0.90)
  • static face (subject, 0.90)
  • pixel font (style, 0.85)
  • face emoji (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text character addition

Animation

  • text changes per frame
  • progressive letter addition

Animation Summary

A 25-frame contact sheet showing a black-and-white animation where white pixelated text changes sequentially from 'E' through multiple intermediate forms until reaching the final word 'BROKEN', with all frames maintaining identical facial features and background.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • text below face
  • 5x5 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image is a 5x5 contact sheet displaying 25 sampled frames from an animated icon. Each frame shows the same grayscale face with short dark hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression against a black background. The animation progresses through text changes: starting with 'E' in the top-left frame, then adding letters to form 'ER', 'ERO', 'EROK', 'EROKF', 'EROKFE', 'EROKFEN', and finally 'BROKEN'. Text appears in white pixelated font positioned below the face. The animation is a sequential text reveal where each frame adds one character until the full word 'BROKEN' forms. All frames maintain identical facial features, pose, and background; only the visible text changes between frames. The icon has no additional props or symbols beyond the face and text. The image uses grayscale with high contrast between white text/face and black background.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of a black-and-white animated icon showing progressive text changes from 'E' to 'ER' to 'ERO' and finally 'BROKEN', with consistent facial features across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • BROKEN | basis visible | confidence high | evidence progressive text reveal from E to BROKEN

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 'cute' aesthetic (face is neutral, not expressive)
  • specific 'Cute146' branding or character identity

Metadata Only Entities

  • Cute146
  • cute buddyicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • grayscale animation
  • text progression
  • pixelated font style

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Named Entities

  • BROKEN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BROKEN animation icon
  • E to BROKEN pixel art
  • grayscale face text reveal
  • 48x48 broken buddy icon
  • pixelated text animation 5x5 contact sheet

Objects

  • white pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 25 sampled frames from source animation (34 total)
  • frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom
  • gray transparency background visible in contact sheet rendering

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit text progression, no nudity or violence

Source Metadata Interpretation

alt: Cute146 | category: icon / cute buddyicons / cute146 | url: Cute146 suggests a 'cute' animated icon with possible fandom reference to 'Cute146'

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • grayscale face
  • text characters

Visible Text

  • E
  • ER
  • ERO
  • EROK
  • EROKF
  • EROKFE
  • EROKFN
  • BROKEN

Visually Supported Entities

  • BROKEN text sequence

Wordwall

  • black-and-white animation
  • grayscale face
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • white pixelated text
  • text progression
  • E to ER transition
  • ER to ERO transition
  • ERO to EROK transition
  • EROK to EROKF transition
  • EROKF to EROKFE transition
  • EROKFE to EROKFN transition
  • EROKFN to BROKEN transition
  • BROKEN text final frame
  • face remains static
  • text changes per frame
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • grayscale rendering
  • 48x48 icon size
  • contact sheet layout
  • 5x5 grid
  • sampled frames 0-33
  • animation sequence
  • no additional props
  • consistent facial features
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Full source records (3)

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 / cute buddyicons / cute146
Alt
Cute146
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/Death
Title
iconhell_shroomfan64_broken
Archive entry
IconHell/Death/iconhell_shroomfan64_broken.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture