A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a split composition with text on the left and a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the right, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

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A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a split composition with text on the left and a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the right, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a split composition with text on the left and a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the right, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. Animated 48…

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Animation

  • no animation present in this frame

Animation Summary

  • Static contact sheet frame showing text and portrait; no animation changes observed in this sampled frame

Composition

  • vertical split layout
  • left text right portrait
  • centered composition within frame

Dense Caption

The image is a static contact sheet frame showing a 48x48 pixel buddy icon. On the left side, against a light gray background, there are three lines of pixelated text: 'Merry' in red with cyan outline at the top, 'XMas' in green with purple outline in the middle, and 'IRAQ' in red with cyan outline at the bottom. The right side features a low-resolution pixel art portrait of Saddam Hussein with dark hair, thick eyebrows, a long gray beard, and visible facial details including eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has dithering artifacts typical of early digital graphics, with no animation present in this frame. The overall composition is split vertically between text and the portrait, with the right side showing slight pixelation due to low resolution.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a split composition with text on the left and a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the right, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Saddam Hussein | basis visible | confidence high | evidence: long gray beard, dark hair, facial features match historical portraits

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated nature of icon not confirmed by this single frame
  • specific 'saddam caught' or 'civilization' references not visible in image

Metadata Only Entities

  • saddam caught
  • civilization
  • myoldicons id 200270

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Saddam Hussein portrait is visually present
  • text elements match 'Merry XMas IRAQ' structure

Named Entities

  • Saddam Hussein

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry xmas iraq buddy icon
  • saddam hussein pixel art text icon
  • iraq war merryxmas icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet 2x1 layout with two frames sampled from source animation
  • sampledFrameCount: 2
  • sourceFrameCount: 2
  • reviewImagePixels: 512x256
  • gray transparency background visible

Safety Notes

  • text contains historical reference to Iraq War but no explicit content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'merryxmas' theme, Saddam Hussein reference, and Iraq War context

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • XMas
  • IRAQ

Visually Supported Entities

  • Saddam Hussein portrait
  • Iraq War reference (via text)
  • merryxmas theme (via text)

Wordwall

  • red text Merry
  • cyan outline on red text
  • green text XMas
  • purple outline on green text
  • red text IRAQ
  • gray background
  • pixelated portrait of Saddam Hussein
  • dark hair in portrait
  • long gray beard in portrait
  • thick eyebrows in portrait
  • low-resolution pixel art style
  • dithering artifacts
  • vertical split composition
  • text left side
  • portrait right side
  • cyan and purple outlines
  • no animation present

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures

Source title
merryxmas
Category
buddyicons / saddam caught / merryxmas
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 23:57 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / civilization / iraq war
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:39 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/e6/e60edf9cd991a39bcbc0618566e6242aceb069a781548fe459ddd154017742b7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
e60edf9cd991a39b
SHA-256
e60edf9cd991a39bcbc0618566e6242aceb069a781548fe459ddd154017742b7
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:31 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.176346

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.887332onnx/unsafe0.176346onnx/nsfw0.091069onnx/nsfl0.085277
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
15
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 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a split composition with text on the left and a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the right, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
15
Version
v3
Elapsed
5,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,050, response 1,126

Review tags

  • saddam hussein portrait (subject, 0.95)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • green text xmas (text, 0.90)
  • merry xmas text (text, 0.90)
  • red text iraq (text, 0.90)
  • red text merry (text, 0.90)
  • vertical split composition (composition, 0.85)
  • cyan outline text (style, 0.85)
  • purple outline text (style, 0.85)
  • iraq reference (text, 0.85)

Animation

  • no animation present in this frame

Animation Summary

  • Static contact sheet frame showing text and portrait; no animation changes observed in this sampled frame

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • gray
  • cyan
  • purple

Composition

  • vertical split layout
  • left text right portrait
  • centered composition within frame

Dense Caption

The image is a static contact sheet frame showing a 48x48 pixel buddy icon. On the left side, against a light gray background, there are three lines of pixelated text: 'Merry' in red with cyan outline at the top, 'XMas' in green with purple outline in the middle, and 'IRAQ' in red with cyan outline at the bottom. The right side features a low-resolution pixel art portrait of Saddam Hussein with dark hair, thick eyebrows, a long gray beard, and visible facial details including eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has dithering artifacts typical of early digital graphics, with no animation present in this frame. The overall composition is split vertically between text and the portrait, with the right side showing slight pixelation due to low resolution.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a split composition with text on the left and a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the right, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Saddam Hussein | basis visible | confidence high | evidence: long gray beard, dark hair, facial features match historical portraits

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated nature of icon not confirmed by this single frame
  • specific 'saddam caught' or 'civilization' references not visible in image

Metadata Only Entities

  • saddam caught
  • civilization
  • myoldicons id 200270

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Saddam Hussein portrait is visually present
  • text elements match 'Merry XMas IRAQ' structure

Mood

  • neutral
  • historical reference

Named Entities

  • Saddam Hussein

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry xmas iraq buddy icon
  • saddam hussein pixel art text icon
  • iraq war merryxmas icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet 2x1 layout with two frames sampled from source animation
  • sampledFrameCount: 2
  • sourceFrameCount: 2
  • reviewImagePixels: 512x256
  • gray transparency background visible

Safety Notes

  • text contains historical reference to Iraq War but no explicit content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'merryxmas' theme, Saddam Hussein reference, and Iraq War context

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • dithering effects

Subjects

  • Saddam Hussein
  • text lines

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • XMas
  • IRAQ

Visually Supported Entities

  • Saddam Hussein portrait
  • Iraq War reference (via text)
  • merryxmas theme (via text)

Wordwall

  • red text Merry
  • cyan outline on red text
  • green text XMas
  • purple outline on green text
  • red text IRAQ
  • gray background
  • pixelated portrait of Saddam Hussein
  • dark hair in portrait
  • long gray beard in portrait
  • thick eyebrows in portrait
  • low-resolution pixel art style
  • dithering artifacts
  • vertical split composition
  • text left side
  • portrait right side
  • cyan and purple outlines
  • no animation present
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Full source records (2)

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 / saddam caught / merryxmas
Alt
merryxmas
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 23:57 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 / civilization / iraq war
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1098133890_2018975097.gif | saddam hussein | animated | myoldicons id 200270
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:39 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