Four distinct animated frames of a buddy icon featuring abstract and branded visual elements including a spiral, text, musical notes, and a character silhouette.

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Four distinct animated frames of a buddy icon featuring abstract and branded visual elements including a spiral, text, musical notes, and a character silhouette.

Four distinct animated frames of a buddy icon featuring abstract and branded visual elements including a spiral, text, musical notes, and a character silhouette. Animated 50×50 GI…

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Animation

  • frame 0: blue spiral pattern
  • frame 1: red oval text bubble with 'HOWARD STERN'
  • frame 2: musical notes and fragmented text
  • frame 3: character silhouette holding object

Animation Summary

Four distinct frames showing sequential visual changes: spiral pattern, Howard Stern branding text, musical notes with fragmented text, character silhouette holding object

Composition

  • 4-frame contact sheet layout
  • 50x50 pixel dimensions per frame

Dense Caption

The image displays four 50x50 pixel animated frames arranged in a contact sheet. The top-left frame shows a blue background with a white circular spiral pattern resembling a vinyl record or target. The top-right frame features a red oval shape containing the text 'HOWARD STERN' above a blue figure silhouette against a dark backdrop. The bottom-left frame contains musical notes and fragmented text including 'KING', 'MEDIA', and '1097935643' on a black background with white pixelated elements. The bottom-right frame depicts a stylized character silhouette holding an object, possibly a microphone or torch, against a dark background with blue light effects. All frames maintain consistent 50x50 dimensions within the contact sheet layout and exhibit typical low-resolution AIM buddy icon rendering artifacts including dithering and blocky pixels.

Description

Four distinct animated frames of a buddy icon featuring abstract and branded visual elements including a spiral, text, musical notes, and a character silhouette.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Howard Stern | basis both | confidence high | evidence 'HOWARD STERN' text on red oval bubble and television context

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention 'howard stearn' spelling error which doesn't match visible 'HOWARD STERN'
  • no explicit confirmation that this is specifically from MyOldIcons collection beyond style matching

Metadata Only Entities

  • 1097935643_1454647630.gif filename
  • howard stearn spelling variant

Metadata Supported By Image

  • HOWARD STERN text is clearly visible on red oval bubble
  • 1097935643 number appears as fragmented text
  • MyOldIcons ID 389 matches visual style of early AIM icons

Named Entities

  • Howard Stern | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • howard stern buddy icon
  • 1097935643 media logo
  • blue spiral music note icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x2
  • sampled frame count 4
  • source frame count 4
  • gray transparency background not visible in contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • text is brand-related and non-explicit

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest Howard Stern branding, MyOldIcons reference, and television category

Subjects

  • spiral pattern

Visible Text

  • HOWARD STERN
  • KING
  • MEDIA
  • 1097935643

Visually Supported Entities

  • Howard Stern branding
  • MyOldIcons aesthetic

Wordwall

  • blue spiral pattern
  • white circular target
  • red oval text bubble
  • HOWARD STERN text
  • blue figure silhouette
  • musical notes
  • KING text fragment
  • MEDIA text fragment
  • 1097935643 number
  • black background
  • white pixelated elements
  • character silhouette holding object
  • blue light effects
  • low-resolution AIM buddy icon
  • pixelated dithering
  • blocky pixels
  • contact sheet layout
  • four distinct frames
  • dark backdrop
  • text fragments
  • stylized character
  • microphone-like object

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures

Source title
howard
Category
buddyicons / howard stern / howard
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:41 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / television / howard stearn
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:15 UTC

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures

Source title
howard
Category
buddyicons / howard stern
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 06:07 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/efc36489e8570bf564a6af17a616bed784391eae38e56c875bbd6d1be2259bdf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
efc36489e8570bf5
SHA-256
efc36489e8570bf564a6af17a616bed784391eae38e56c875bbd6d1be2259bdf
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110682

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925779onnx/unsafe0.110682onnx/nsfw0.073141onnx/nsfl0.037541
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 01:44 UTC
Run
8
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

Four distinct animated frames of a buddy icon featuring abstract and branded visual elements including a spiral, text, musical notes, and a character silhouette.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 01:44 UTC
Run
8
Version
v3
Elapsed
26,123 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,014, response 1,233

Review tags

  • low resolution aim icon (style, 0.95)
  • red oval text (subject, 0.95)
  • pixelated dithering (style, 0.90)
  • howard stern branded (subject, 0.90)
  • spiral pattern (subject, 0.85)
  • blue background (subject, 0.80)
  • media logo (subject, 0.80)
  • musical notes (subject, 0.75)
  • character silhouette (subject, 0.70)

Actions

  • holding object

Animation

  • frame 0: blue spiral pattern
  • frame 1: red oval text bubble with 'HOWARD STERN'
  • frame 2: musical notes and fragmented text
  • frame 3: character silhouette holding object

Animation Summary

Four distinct frames showing sequential visual changes: spiral pattern, Howard Stern branding text, musical notes with fragmented text, character silhouette holding object

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • 4-frame contact sheet layout
  • 50x50 pixel dimensions per frame

Dense Caption

The image displays four 50x50 pixel animated frames arranged in a contact sheet. The top-left frame shows a blue background with a white circular spiral pattern resembling a vinyl record or target. The top-right frame features a red oval shape containing the text 'HOWARD STERN' above a blue figure silhouette against a dark backdrop. The bottom-left frame contains musical notes and fragmented text including 'KING', 'MEDIA', and '1097935643' on a black background with white pixelated elements. The bottom-right frame depicts a stylized character silhouette holding an object, possibly a microphone or torch, against a dark background with blue light effects. All frames maintain consistent 50x50 dimensions within the contact sheet layout and exhibit typical low-resolution AIM buddy icon rendering artifacts including dithering and blocky pixels.

Description

Four distinct animated frames of a buddy icon featuring abstract and branded visual elements including a spiral, text, musical notes, and a character silhouette.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Howard Stern | basis both | confidence high | evidence 'HOWARD STERN' text on red oval bubble and television context

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention 'howard stearn' spelling error which doesn't match visible 'HOWARD STERN'
  • no explicit confirmation that this is specifically from MyOldIcons collection beyond style matching

Metadata Only Entities

  • 1097935643_1454647630.gif filename
  • howard stearn spelling variant

Metadata Supported By Image

  • HOWARD STERN text is clearly visible on red oval bubble
  • 1097935643 number appears as fragmented text
  • MyOldIcons ID 389 matches visual style of early AIM icons

Mood

  • playful
  • branded
  • dynamic

Named Entities

  • Howard Stern | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • howard stern buddy icon
  • 1097935643 media logo
  • blue spiral music note icon

Objects

  • microphone-like object
  • text bubbles
  • musical notes

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x2
  • sampled frame count 4
  • source frame count 4
  • gray transparency background not visible in contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • text is brand-related and non-explicit

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest Howard Stern branding, MyOldIcons reference, and television category

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • AIM buddy icon style

Subjects

  • spiral pattern
  • red oval text bubble
  • musical notes
  • character silhouette

Visible Text

  • HOWARD STERN
  • KING
  • MEDIA
  • 1097935643

Visually Supported Entities

  • Howard Stern branding
  • MyOldIcons aesthetic

Wordwall

  • blue spiral pattern
  • white circular target
  • red oval text bubble
  • HOWARD STERN text
  • blue figure silhouette
  • musical notes
  • KING text fragment
  • MEDIA text fragment
  • 1097935643 number
  • black background
  • white pixelated elements
  • character silhouette holding object
  • blue light effects
  • low-resolution AIM buddy icon
  • pixelated dithering
  • blocky pixels
  • contact sheet layout
  • four distinct frames
  • dark backdrop
  • text fragments
  • stylized character
  • microphone-like object
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Full source records (3)

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-com-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
buddyicons / howard stern / howard
Alt
howard
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:41 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
large recovered buddy-icon portal and user-submitted icon culture

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / television / howard stearn
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1097935643_1454647630.gif | howard stearn | animated | myoldicons id 389
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:15 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-com-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
buddyicons / howard stern
Alt
howard
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 06:07 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
large recovered buddy-icon portal and user-submitted icon culture