A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated animated frames featuring a band member with varying expressions and poses, including sunglasses, hand covering mouth, and text overlays for "Unwritten Law" and release date.

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A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated animated frames featuring a band member with varying expressions and poses, including sunglasses, hand covering mouth, and text overlays for "Unwritten Law" and release date.

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated animated frames featuring a band member with varying expressions and poses, including sunglasses, hand covering mouth, and text overlays for "Unwr…

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Animation

frame-to-frame changes include: hair color variation (light brown vs. dark), sunglasses presence/absence, mouth position (closed to smiling), hand covering face in middle-bottom frame; no visible motion blur or transitional effects between frames

Animation Summary

Eight-frame animation showing band member with varying expressions (downward gaze, smiling, neutral) and props (sunglasses), plus text panels for band name and album release date; no visible motion effects between frames

Composition

3x3 contact sheet layout with eight frames and two text panels; original icon content fills grid cells without visible cropping or framing beyond the 48x48 frame size

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid contact sheet displaying eight sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The top-left frame shows a person with short light brown hair looking downward against a dark background. Top-middle features the same individual wearing black sunglasses, smiling broadly with visible teeth. Top-right displays the person in black sunglasses with a neutral expression. Bottom-left shows the individual without sunglasses, eyes narrowed and mouth closed. Bottom-middle depicts hands covering the lower face while eyes remain open. The right column contains two text panels: upper dark gray panel reads "UNWRITTEN LAW" in white pixelated font; bottom dark gray panel displays "HERE'S TO THE MOURNING" in green block letters with "in stores 2/1/05" below it. All frames exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art, with visible dithering and anti-aliasing artifacts on edges. The contact sheet uses a gray background for transparency rendering, but the original icon content is entirely black-and-white except for green text elements.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated animated frames featuring a band member with varying expressions and poses, including sunglasses, hand covering mouth, and text overlays for "Unwritten Law" and release date.

Fandoms

  • rock music fandom
  • early internet culture

Identity Hypotheses

Unwritten Law | basis both | high confidence | visible text and source hint alignment; green text "HERE'S TO THE MOURNING" matches known Unwritten Law album title

Metadata Supported By Image

  • band name text matches source hint; release date format matches source hint; green text layout consistent with promotional material

Named Entities

  • Unwritten Law
  • February 1, 2005

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • unwritten law band icon
  • 2/1/05 album release buddy icon
  • here's to the mourning green text
  • sunglasses smiling face animation
  • hand covering mouth frame

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet layout 3x3 with eight sampled animation frames; gray background indicates transparency rendering; review image size 768x768 pixels; sourceFrameCount 8; sampledFrameCount 8; sampledFrameIndices [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style art with promotional music content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest "Unwritten Law" band promotion with release date February 1, 2005

Visible Text

  • UNWRITTEN LAW
  • HERE'S TO THE MOURNING
  • in stores
  • 2/1/05

Visually Supported Entities

  • Unwritten Law band
  • February 1, 2005 release date

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX Iconator /ikons/ GIF Captures

Source title
ICONATOR_1c557e08381b0e56949cf6a890ec83b4
Category
ikons / 190 / iconator 1c557e08381b0e56949cf6a890ec83b4
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 22:12 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / unwritten law
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:20 UTC

Wayback Iconator Captured New-Icon Pages

Source title
iconator.com - buddy icons - away messages - and more!
Category
iconsnew / iconator com buddy icons away messages and more
Era
Early-to-Late-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2a5af782c76468f80029afc186cd39065bd2d8fc78a15c6ff5b74e3d1ac75229.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
2a5af782c76468f8
SHA-256
2a5af782c76468f80029afc186cd39065bd2d8fc78a15c6ff5b74e3d1ac75229
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:45 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.152125

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920984onnx/unsafe0.152125onnx/nsfw0.082163onnx/nsfl0.069962
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Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 02:43 UTC
Run
10
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)
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A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated animated frames featuring a band member with varying expressions and poses, including sunglasses, hand covering mouth, and text overlays for "Unwritten Law" and release date.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 02:43 UTC
Run
10
Version
v3
Elapsed
12,820 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,124, response 1,181

Review tags

  • here s to the mourning text (text, 0.95)
  • green text elements (color, 0.90)
  • unwritten law band icon (subject, 0.90)
  • 2 1 05 release date (event, 0.85)
  • low resolution pixel art (style, 0.85)
  • sunglasses smiling face (subject, 0.80)
  • hand covering mouth frame (action, 0.75)
  • rock band promotion (context, 0.70)

Actions

  • looking downward
  • smiling broadly
  • neutral expression
  • narrowed eyes
  • hands covering mouth

Animation

frame-to-frame changes include: hair color variation (light brown vs. dark), sunglasses presence/absence, mouth position (closed to smiling), hand covering face in middle-bottom frame; no visible motion blur or transitional effects between frames

Animation Summary

Eight-frame animation showing band member with varying expressions (downward gaze, smiling, neutral) and props (sunglasses), plus text panels for band name and album release date; no visible motion effects between frames

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • green
  • light brown

Composition

3x3 contact sheet layout with eight frames and two text panels; original icon content fills grid cells without visible cropping or framing beyond the 48x48 frame size

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid contact sheet displaying eight sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. The top-left frame shows a person with short light brown hair looking downward against a dark background. Top-middle features the same individual wearing black sunglasses, smiling broadly with visible teeth. Top-right displays the person in black sunglasses with a neutral expression. Bottom-left shows the individual without sunglasses, eyes narrowed and mouth closed. Bottom-middle depicts hands covering the lower face while eyes remain open. The right column contains two text panels: upper dark gray panel reads "UNWRITTEN LAW" in white pixelated font; bottom dark gray panel displays "HERE'S TO THE MOURNING" in green block letters with "in stores 2/1/05" below it. All frames exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art, with visible dithering and anti-aliasing artifacts on edges. The contact sheet uses a gray background for transparency rendering, but the original icon content is entirely black-and-white except for green text elements.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated animated frames featuring a band member with varying expressions and poses, including sunglasses, hand covering mouth, and text overlays for "Unwritten Law" and release date.

Fandoms

  • rock music fandom
  • early internet culture

Identity Hypotheses

Unwritten Law | basis both | high confidence | visible text and source hint alignment; green text "HERE'S TO THE MOURNING" matches known Unwritten Law album title

Metadata Supported By Image

  • band name text matches source hint; release date format matches source hint; green text layout consistent with promotional material

Mood

  • promotional, casual, slightly playful

Named Entities

  • Unwritten Law
  • February 1, 2005

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • unwritten law band icon
  • 2/1/05 album release buddy icon
  • here's to the mourning green text
  • sunglasses smiling face animation
  • hand covering mouth frame

Objects

  • black sunglasses
  • green text elements
  • pixelated background

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet layout 3x3 with eight sampled animation frames; gray background indicates transparency rendering; review image size 768x768 pixels; sourceFrameCount 8; sampledFrameCount 8; sampledFrameIndices [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style art with promotional music content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest "Unwritten Law" band promotion with release date February 1, 2005

Style

  • low-resolution pixel art

Subjects

  • person with short light brown hair
  • band member
  • sunglasses-wearing individual
  • hand-covered face individual

Visible Text

  • UNWRITTEN LAW
  • HERE'S TO THE MOURNING
  • in stores
  • 2/1/05

Visually Supported Entities

  • Unwritten Law band
  • February 1, 2005 release date
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Full source records (3)

Wayback CDX Iconator /ikons/ GIF Captures (wayback-iconator-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
ikons / 190 / iconator 1c557e08381b0e56949cf6a890ec83b4
Alt
ICONATOR_1c557e08381b0e56949cf6a890ec83b4
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 22:12 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad pop-culture coverage

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / unwritten law
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1108000008_1316985743.gif | slowe95 Unwritten Law | animated | myoldicons id 173298
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:20 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 Iconator Captured New-Icon Pages (wayback-iconator-captured-new-pages)

Kind
wayback-page-cdx
Era
Early-to-Late-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback CDX-indexed labeled HTML gallery
Category
iconsnew / iconator com buddy icons away messages and more
Title
iconator.com - buddy icons - away messages - and more!
Alt
Unwritten Law | by basketca...
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Iconator chronological new-icon listings with title, uploader, comment, and date context across the site's active years