Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a stylized metallic logo with star and text elements on black background.

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Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a stylized metallic logo with star and text elements on black background.

Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a stylized metallic logo with star and text elements on black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX CoolBud…

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Animation

frame 0: star emblem; frame 1: horizontal "KotM" text; frame 2: rotated "KotM" text; consistent color scheme across frames; subtle glow effects on all elements

Animation Summary

  • Three-frame animation alternating between symmetrical star emblem and two variations of "KotM" cursive text with consistent metallic styling

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • horizontal placement of top-right frame
  • vertical orientation of bottom-left frame
  • contact sheet grid

Dense Caption

The image displays a 2x2 contact sheet containing three distinct animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The top-left frame features a symmetrical, star-shaped emblem composed of interlocking angular shapes in white and gold tones against a solid black background; the design has sharp edges with subtle anti-aliased outlines suggesting metallic sheen. The top-right frame shows stylized text reading "KotM" in flowing cursive lettering with similar white and gold coloring and anti-aliasing effects, positioned horizontally across the upper portion of the icon space. The bottom-left frame presents a different variation of the same cursive style spelling "KotM," but rotated approximately 90 degrees clockwise compared to the top-right version; this text also exhibits consistent metallic styling with white highlights and gold accents. All visible elements maintain sharp, pixelated edges typical of early digital graphics while displaying subtle glow effects around the outlines. The rightmost column of the contact sheet shows a solid gray background indicating transparency space not used by the animation frames. Each frame appears to be part of an animated sequence where the design alternates between the star emblem and two variations of stylized text, with consistent color scheme (white/gold/black) across all visible elements.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a stylized metallic logo with star and text elements on black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • KotM | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text in two frames and star emblem matching stylized logo description

Metadata Only Entities

  • ico_max_watstein_04
  • wayback-coolbuddy-gifs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "KotM" text appears in both visible frames
  • star emblem matches stylized logo description
  • contact sheet layout consistent with animation frame display

Named Entities

  • KotM | basis visible

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • KotM star emblem animation
  • stylized KotM text contact sheet
  • metallic KotM logo frames
  • white gold KotM animation
  • KotM cursive text variation

Preprocessing Notes

Contact sheet layout 2x2 with three visible animation frames (indices 0,1,2); sampled from source animation with total frame count 3; gray background indicates transparency space not used by icon content

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit stylized logo design with no visible nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: ico_max_watstein_04 | category: icon / contest / imgs / ico max watstein 04 | url: ico_max_watstein_04

Visible Text

  • KotM

Visually Supported Entities

  • stylized "KotM" logo design

Wordwall

  • star-shaped metallic emblem
  • interlocking angular shapes
  • white gold color scheme
  • black background
  • anti-aliased outlines
  • flowing cursive text
  • "KotM" text
  • rotated text variation
  • symmetrical design
  • pixelated edges
  • glow effects
  • stencil-like rendering
  • metallic sheen
  • contact sheet layout
  • three animation frames
  • horizontal text placement
  • vertical text orientation
  • solid black background
  • gray transparency space
  • stylized logo elements

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
ico_max_watstein_04
Category
icon / contest / imgs / ico max watstein 04
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a15e147b8f2368d22101efba2646a9fff9750be6b077f41e135bf85b10c5e5a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
4a15e147b8f2368d
SHA-256
4a15e147b8f2368d22101efba2646a9fff9750be6b077f41e135bf85b10c5e5a
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 11:36 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081556

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925909onnx/unsafe0.081556onnx/nsfw0.042326onnx/nsfl0.039230
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 18:54 UTC
Run
26
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

Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a stylized metallic logo with star and text elements on black background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 18:54 UTC
Run
26
Version
v3
Elapsed
24,471 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,939, response 1,233

Review tags

  • kotm logo (brand, 0.95)
  • star emblem (subject, 0.95)
  • contact sheet (composition, 0.90)
  • symmetrical design (composition, 0.90)
  • cursive text (subject, 0.90)
  • metallic style (style, 0.85)
  • rotated text (subject, 0.85)
  • pixelated graphics (style, 0.80)
  • glow effects (rendering, 0.75)

Animation

frame 0: star emblem; frame 1: horizontal "KotM" text; frame 2: rotated "KotM" text; consistent color scheme across frames; subtle glow effects on all elements

Animation Summary

  • Three-frame animation alternating between symmetrical star emblem and two variations of "KotM" cursive text with consistent metallic styling

Colors

  • white
  • gold
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • horizontal placement of top-right frame
  • vertical orientation of bottom-left frame
  • contact sheet grid

Dense Caption

The image displays a 2x2 contact sheet containing three distinct animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The top-left frame features a symmetrical, star-shaped emblem composed of interlocking angular shapes in white and gold tones against a solid black background; the design has sharp edges with subtle anti-aliased outlines suggesting metallic sheen. The top-right frame shows stylized text reading "KotM" in flowing cursive lettering with similar white and gold coloring and anti-aliasing effects, positioned horizontally across the upper portion of the icon space. The bottom-left frame presents a different variation of the same cursive style spelling "KotM," but rotated approximately 90 degrees clockwise compared to the top-right version; this text also exhibits consistent metallic styling with white highlights and gold accents. All visible elements maintain sharp, pixelated edges typical of early digital graphics while displaying subtle glow effects around the outlines. The rightmost column of the contact sheet shows a solid gray background indicating transparency space not used by the animation frames. Each frame appears to be part of an animated sequence where the design alternates between the star emblem and two variations of stylized text, with consistent color scheme (white/gold/black) across all visible elements.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a stylized metallic logo with star and text elements on black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • KotM | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text in two frames and star emblem matching stylized logo description

Metadata Only Entities

  • ico_max_watstein_04
  • wayback-coolbuddy-gifs

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "KotM" text appears in both visible frames
  • star emblem matches stylized logo description
  • contact sheet layout consistent with animation frame display

Mood

  • modern
  • stylized
  • dynamic

Named Entities

  • KotM | basis visible

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • KotM star emblem animation
  • stylized KotM text contact sheet
  • metallic KotM logo frames
  • white gold KotM animation
  • KotM cursive text variation

Objects

  • interlocking angular shapes

Preprocessing Notes

Contact sheet layout 2x2 with three visible animation frames (indices 0,1,2); sampled from source animation with total frame count 3; gray background indicates transparency space not used by icon content

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit stylized logo design with no visible nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: ico_max_watstein_04 | category: icon / contest / imgs / ico max watstein 04 | url: ico_max_watstein_04

Style

  • stencil-like
  • metallic
  • pixelated
  • cursive

Subjects

  • star emblem
  • cursive text "KotM"

Visible Text

  • KotM

Visually Supported Entities

  • stylized "KotM" logo design

Wordwall

  • star-shaped metallic emblem
  • interlocking angular shapes
  • white gold color scheme
  • black background
  • anti-aliased outlines
  • flowing cursive text
  • "KotM" text
  • rotated text variation
  • symmetrical design
  • pixelated edges
  • glow effects
  • stencil-like rendering
  • metallic sheen
  • contact sheet layout
  • three animation frames
  • horizontal text placement
  • vertical text orientation
  • solid black background
  • gray transparency space
  • stylized logo elements
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)

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 / contest / imgs / ico max watstein 04
Alt
ico_max_watstein_04
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage