A 48x48 pixel buddy icon split into two frames showing a character's face on the left and text on the right, with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

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A 48x48 pixel buddy icon split into two frames showing a character's face on the left and text on the right, with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon split into two frames showing a character's face on the left and text on the right, with visible pixelation and dithering effects. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Animation

  • frame 0 shows character face; frame 1 replaces face with text logo

Animation Summary

Two-frame contact sheet showing a static pixelated face in frame 0 and text logo replacement in frame 1; no motion beyond the transition from image to text.

Composition

  • left frame: close-up character face; right frame: text on black background

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet of an animated AIM buddy icon at 48x48 resolution. On the left frame (index 0), there is a pixelated close-up of a person’s face with light skin tone, dark hair styled in a cap or head covering, and visible ear details; the background appears to be a muted greenish-gray texture. The right frame (index 1) displays white text on a black background: "AnimeIM" at the top and "com" below it, both rendered with pixelated edges and dithering effects typical of low-resolution GIF animations from early internet eras. Both frames show consistent pixelation artifacts, indicating limited color depth and compression artifacts common in 1990s/2000s digital art. The contact sheet layout is 2x1 (left-to-right), with no visible animation motion between the two sampled frames beyond a static text display replacing the character face.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon split into two frames showing a character's face on the left and text on the right, with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

Identity Hypotheses

The Boss | basis both | confidence 0.3 | evidence: source hints mention "Metal Gear Solid The Boss" but visual details are too low-resolution to confirm character identity

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "Metal Gear Solid" character identity not confirmed by visual evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • Metal Gear Solid
  • The Boss (character)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "AnimeIM" text matches visible text
  • "com" text matches visible text

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • AnimeIM com buddy icon
  • pixelated AIM logo animation
  • 48x48 text-only AIM icon
  • early internet AnimeIM logo

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1, sampled frames 0 and 1, gray transparency background not visible in contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest "Metal Gear Solid" fandom but image does not confirm this
  • non-authoritative source mentions "AnimeIM" as a brand name

Visible Text

  • AnimeIM
  • com

Visually Supported Entities

  • AnimeIM logo
  • text-based icon design

Wordwall

  • pixelated character face
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair cap
  • muted greenish-gray background
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • AnimeIM text
  • com text
  • 48x48 resolution
  • dithering effects
  • low-resolution GIF
  • contact sheet layout
  • static frame transition
  • ear details
  • head covering
  • text-only frame
  • character face frame
  • pixelation artifacts
  • early internet art style
  • muted color palette

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons

Source title
Metal Gear Solid Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Category
buddy icons / metal gear solid / metal gear solid buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:17 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/514cbd7854a8587b7c98e437c0770eddc5138b6740105be655945925d902c51e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 05:17 UTC
Archive ID
514cbd7854a8587b
SHA-256
514cbd7854a8587b7c98e437c0770eddc5138b6740105be655945925d902c51e
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.249490

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921983onnx/unsafe0.249490onnx/nsfl0.168588onnx/nsfw0.080902
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 18, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Run
32
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 split into two frames showing a character's face on the left and text on the right, with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

Reviewed
July 18, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Run
32
Version
v3
Elapsed
87,426 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,008, response 1,158

Review tags

  • white text on black background (color, 0.95)
  • pixelation artifacts (style, 0.95)
  • animeim logo (subject, 0.95)
  • 48x48 resolution (technical, 0.95)
  • static frame transition (animation, 0.90)
  • pixelated animation (style, 0.90)
  • text based icon (subject, 0.90)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.85)
  • muted greenish gray background (color, 0.80)
  • early internet art style (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • frame 0 shows character face; frame 1 replaces face with text logo

Animation Summary

Two-frame contact sheet showing a static pixelated face in frame 0 and text logo replacement in frame 1; no motion beyond the transition from image to text.

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • dark hair
  • muted greenish-gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • left frame: close-up character face; right frame: text on black background

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet of an animated AIM buddy icon at 48x48 resolution. On the left frame (index 0), there is a pixelated close-up of a person’s face with light skin tone, dark hair styled in a cap or head covering, and visible ear details; the background appears to be a muted greenish-gray texture. The right frame (index 1) displays white text on a black background: "AnimeIM" at the top and "com" below it, both rendered with pixelated edges and dithering effects typical of low-resolution GIF animations from early internet eras. Both frames show consistent pixelation artifacts, indicating limited color depth and compression artifacts common in 1990s/2000s digital art. The contact sheet layout is 2x1 (left-to-right), with no visible animation motion between the two sampled frames beyond a static text display replacing the character face.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon split into two frames showing a character's face on the left and text on the right, with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

Identity Hypotheses

The Boss | basis both | confidence 0.3 | evidence: source hints mention "Metal Gear Solid The Boss" but visual details are too low-resolution to confirm character identity

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • "Metal Gear Solid" character identity not confirmed by visual evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • Metal Gear Solid
  • The Boss (character)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "AnimeIM" text matches visible text
  • "com" text matches visible text

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • AnimeIM com buddy icon
  • pixelated AIM logo animation
  • 48x48 text-only AIM icon
  • early internet AnimeIM logo

Objects

  • text logo

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1, sampled frames 0 and 1, gray transparency background not visible in contact sheet

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest "Metal Gear Solid" fandom but image does not confirm this
  • non-authoritative source mentions "AnimeIM" as a brand name

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithered
  • early internet art style

Subjects

  • person's face
  • text logo

Visible Text

  • AnimeIM
  • com

Visually Supported Entities

  • AnimeIM logo
  • text-based icon design

Wordwall

  • pixelated character face
  • light skin tone
  • dark hair cap
  • muted greenish-gray background
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • AnimeIM text
  • com text
  • 48x48 resolution
  • dithering effects
  • low-resolution GIF
  • contact sheet layout
  • static frame transition
  • ear details
  • head covering
  • text-only frame
  • character face frame
  • pixelation artifacts
  • early internet art style
  • muted color palette
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Full source records (1)

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons (animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Type
live categorized AIM icon portal
Category
buddy icons / metal gear solid / metal gear solid buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Title
Metal Gear Solid Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Alt
metal gear solid the boss 3 050106 gif
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:17 UTC
Rights
fan-curated anime character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large alphabetized anime fan portal with series-level category labels, useful for a genre-specific AIM-era cross-section