A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated blue question mark and star with the text "NEVER LET ME GO." changing color across frames on a white background.

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A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated blue question mark and star with the text "NEVER LET ME GO." changing color across frames on a white background.

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated blue question mark and star with the text "NEVER LET ME GO." changing color across frames on a white background. Animated 48×4…

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Animation

  • frame-by-frame text color changes; question mark and star remain static across all frames

Animation Summary

  • Six-frame animation cycling text color on "NEVER" while symbols remain static; no movement beyond text highlight changes.

Composition

  • centered symbols and text on white background, 3x2 grid layout

Dense Caption

The image is a 48x48 pixel animated contact sheet displaying six sequential frames of an AIM buddy icon arranged in a 3x2 grid. Each frame features a light blue, pixelated question mark with curved tails and a five-pointed star below it against a solid white background. The text "NEVER LET ME GO." appears in bold black pixelated font beneath the symbols. Across the six frames, the color of the word "NEVER" cycles through different shades: frame 0 shows all-black text; frame 1 has light blue "NEVER" with black "LET ME GO."; frame 2 returns to full black; frame 3 displays light blue "ne" (lowercase) in "never" while the rest is black; frame 4 shows light blue "NEV" (uppercase); and frame 5 features light blue "NEVE". The animation consists solely of color changes on the text with no movement or shape alterations to the symbols. The image has a gray transparency background visible around the white frames, typical of contact sheet rendering.

Description

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated blue question mark and star with the text "NEVER LET ME GO." changing color across frames on a white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"\"NEVER LET ME GO.\" quote reference","basis":"both","confidence":0.9,"evidence":"text matches the phrase from the novel/film"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • alt: love181
  • category: love buddyicons
  • url: love181
  • redheadqt987 You said you youd never hurt me I guess you lied

Metadata Only Entities

  • love181
  • myoldicons id 186156

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: quotes
  • animated text color cycling
  • text-based icon design

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • never let me go quote icon
  • pixel art question mark star text animation
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon 1998
  • 48x48 pixel animated contact sheet

Objects

  • question mark
  • star

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet with 6 sampled frames (sourceFrameCount: 6), gray transparency background visible around white icon frames, contact-sheet layout 3x2

Safety Notes

  • text is non-explicit and nostalgic

Source Metadata Interpretation

alt: love181 | category: icon / love buddyicons / love181 | url: love181 | source: myoldicons-originalicons | title: MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API | alt: 1109552504_335703256.gif | redheadqt987 You said you youd never hurt me I guess you lied | animated | myoldicons id 186156 | category: myoldicons / quotes / assorted

Style

  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • NEVER LET ME GO.

Wordwall

  • pixelated question mark
  • five-pointed star symbol
  • text NEVER LET ME GO
  • black pixel font
  • light blue text highlight
  • frame-by-frame color cycling
  • white background
  • gray transparency border
  • 3x2 grid layout
  • 6 sequential frames
  • blue question mark tail curves
  • star below question mark
  • text "NEVER" color variation
  • pixelated animation
  • static symbols
  • no character figures
  • text-only icon
  • 48x48 pixel size
  • contact sheet rendering
  • frame 0 text black
  • frame 1 text blue NEV
  • frame 2 text all black
  • frame 3 text lowercase ne
  • frame 4 text blue NEV
  • frame 5 text blue NEVE

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
love181
Category
icon / love buddyicons / love181
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:05 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / quotes / assorted
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:55 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fcfa982636b74bf45d1b237eab00b8ca9edbb6c69ddb500e31dfbd859d860171.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
fcfa982636b74bf4
SHA-256
fcfa982636b74bf45d1b237eab00b8ca9edbb6c69ddb500e31dfbd859d860171
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:35 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084430

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918155onnx/unsafe0.084430onnx/nsfw0.049814onnx/nsfl0.034616
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 13:03 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

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated blue question mark and star with the text "NEVER LET ME GO." changing color across frames on a white background.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 13:03 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,871 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,091, response 1,337

Review tags

  • 48x48 pixels (size, 1.00)
  • no character figures (subject, 1.00)
  • black text (color, 0.95)
  • white background (color, 0.95)
  • text based icon (design, 0.95)
  • star symbol (object, 0.95)
  • pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • question mark symbol (subject, 0.95)
  • text animation (animation, 0.90)
  • contact sheet (composition, 0.90)
  • static animation (animation, 0.85)
  • light blue text (color, 0.85)

Actions

  • text color cycling

Animation

  • frame-by-frame text color changes; question mark and star remain static across all frames

Animation Summary

  • Six-frame animation cycling text color on "NEVER" while symbols remain static; no movement beyond text highlight changes.

Colors

  • black
  • light blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered symbols and text on white background, 3x2 grid layout

Dense Caption

The image is a 48x48 pixel animated contact sheet displaying six sequential frames of an AIM buddy icon arranged in a 3x2 grid. Each frame features a light blue, pixelated question mark with curved tails and a five-pointed star below it against a solid white background. The text "NEVER LET ME GO." appears in bold black pixelated font beneath the symbols. Across the six frames, the color of the word "NEVER" cycles through different shades: frame 0 shows all-black text; frame 1 has light blue "NEVER" with black "LET ME GO."; frame 2 returns to full black; frame 3 displays light blue "ne" (lowercase) in "never" while the rest is black; frame 4 shows light blue "NEV" (uppercase); and frame 5 features light blue "NEVE". The animation consists solely of color changes on the text with no movement or shape alterations to the symbols. The image has a gray transparency background visible around the white frames, typical of contact sheet rendering.

Description

A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a pixelated blue question mark and star with the text "NEVER LET ME GO." changing color across frames on a white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"\"NEVER LET ME GO.\" quote reference","basis":"both","confidence":0.9,"evidence":"text matches the phrase from the novel/film"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • alt: love181
  • category: love buddyicons
  • url: love181
  • redheadqt987 You said you youd never hurt me I guess you lied

Metadata Only Entities

  • love181
  • myoldicons id 186156

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: quotes
  • animated text color cycling
  • text-based icon design

Mood

  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • never let me go quote icon
  • pixel art question mark star text animation
  • aol instant messenger buddy icon 1998
  • 48x48 pixel animated contact sheet

Objects

  • question mark
  • star

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet with 6 sampled frames (sourceFrameCount: 6), gray transparency background visible around white icon frames, contact-sheet layout 3x2

Safety Notes

  • text is non-explicit and nostalgic

Source Metadata Interpretation

alt: love181 | category: icon / love buddyicons / love181 | url: love181 | source: myoldicons-originalicons | title: MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API | alt: 1109552504_335703256.gif | redheadqt987 You said you youd never hurt me I guess you lied | animated | myoldicons id 186156 | category: myoldicons / quotes / assorted

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit animation
  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • question mark symbol
  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • NEVER LET ME GO.

Wordwall

  • pixelated question mark
  • five-pointed star symbol
  • text NEVER LET ME GO
  • black pixel font
  • light blue text highlight
  • frame-by-frame color cycling
  • white background
  • gray transparency border
  • 3x2 grid layout
  • 6 sequential frames
  • blue question mark tail curves
  • star below question mark
  • text "NEVER" color variation
  • pixelated animation
  • static symbols
  • no character figures
  • text-only icon
  • 48x48 pixel size
  • contact sheet rendering
  • frame 0 text black
  • frame 1 text blue NEV
  • frame 2 text all black
  • frame 3 text lowercase ne
  • frame 4 text blue NEV
  • frame 5 text blue NEVE
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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 / love buddyicons / love181
Alt
love181
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:05 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / quotes / assorted
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1109552504_335703256.gif | redheadqt987 You said you youd never hurt me I guess you lied | animated | myoldicons id 186156
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:55 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