A pixelated contact sheet showing two frames of an animated buddy icon featuring a character in blue and gray armor with a mask, alongside text reading "Anime IM" on the right frame.

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A pixelated contact sheet showing two frames of an animated buddy icon featuring a character in blue and gray armor with a mask, alongside text reading "Anime IM" on the right frame.

A pixelated contact sheet showing two frames of an animated buddy icon featuring a character in blue and gray armor with a mask, alongside text reading "Anime IM" on the right fra…

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Animation

  • frame 0 shows armored character with mask and star symbol
  • frame 1 shows "Anime IM" and "c0m" text instead of character

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing a masked armored character in frame 0 and text "Anime IM" with "c0m" in frame 1, both rendered in pixelated style on separate backgrounds.

Composition

  • left frame: character centered on white background
  • right frame: text centered on black background

Dense Caption

The image is a 512x256 pixel contact sheet displaying two sampled animation frames side-by-side. On the left frame (48x48 pixels), there's a pixelated character in blue and gray armor with a mask covering their face, featuring visible chest plating, shoulder pads, and arm details; the character has a small white star on their lower torso and appears to be holding or interacting with a dark object. The right frame (also 48x48 pixels) shows text "Anime IM" in large pixelated letters at the top and "c0m" in smaller pixelated letters below it, both rendered in light gray against a black background. Both frames have visible dithering patterns typical of low-resolution GIFs from early internet eras, with slight variations between frames suggesting animation movement. The overall style is retro digital art consistent with late 1990s/early 2000s buddy icons for instant messaging platforms.

Description

A pixelated contact sheet showing two frames of an animated buddy icon featuring a character in blue and gray armor with a mask, alongside text reading "Anime IM" on the right frame.

Identity Hypotheses

Snake | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence: armored character with mask, but visual details don't match any specific Metal Gear Solid character

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • specific Metal Gear Solid character identity (mask style differs from known characters)

Metadata Only Entities

  • Metal Gear Solid character reference

Metadata Supported By Image

  • armored character design
  • text display format

Named Entities

  • Anime IM | basis visible | confidence 0.95
  • c0m | basis visible | confidence 0.85

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Anime IM buddy icon
  • pixelated armored character mask
  • blue gray armor text c0m

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1 (two frames side-by-side)
  • sampled frame count: 2
  • source frame count: 2
  • review image pixels: 512x256
  • gray transparency background visible in contact sheet edges

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest "Metal Gear Solid" character and "Anime IM" branding, but visual evidence only confirms armored character with mask and text elements

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Visually Supported Entities

  • Anime IM branding
  • pixelated digital art style

Wordwall

  • blue and gray armored character
  • masked face
  • chest plating
  • shoulder pads
  • arm details
  • small white star on torso
  • dark object held by character
  • pixelated text "Anime IM"
  • pixelated text "c0m"
  • black background with light gray text
  • dithering patterns
  • retro digital art style
  • low-resolution GIF
  • 48x48 pixel frame size
  • contact sheet layout
  • left frame character
  • right frame text
  • white star on armor
  • mask covering face
  • chest plating details
  • shoulder pad design

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 05:18 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/558f5bc479e5b81901b9894230761d0e60591597235d91d067b0e89e6702ee81.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Archive ID
558f5bc479e5b819
SHA-256
558f5bc479e5b81901b9894230761d0e60591597235d91d067b0e89e6702ee81
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 13:51 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.144670

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921680onnx/unsafe0.144670onnx/nsfw0.103057onnx/nsfl0.041613
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 18, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
32
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.900000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated contact sheet showing two frames of an animated buddy icon featuring a character in blue and gray armor with a mask, alongside text reading "Anime IM" on the right frame.

Reviewed
July 18, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
32
Version
v3
Elapsed
84,946 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,009, response 1,237

Review tags

  • retro digital art (style, 0.95)
  • armored character (subject, 0.95)
  • pixelated text (text, 0.95)
  • white star symbol (object, 0.90)
  • masked face (subject, 0.90)
  • blue armor (color, 0.85)
  • gray armor (color, 0.85)
  • black background (color, 0.80)
  • white background (color, 0.80)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.80)

Actions

  • character holding dark object (frame 0)
  • text display (frame 1)

Animation

  • frame 0 shows armored character with mask and star symbol
  • frame 1 shows "Anime IM" and "c0m" text instead of character

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing a masked armored character in frame 0 and text "Anime IM" with "c0m" in frame 1, both rendered in pixelated style on separate backgrounds.

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • left frame: character centered on white background
  • right frame: text centered on black background

Dense Caption

The image is a 512x256 pixel contact sheet displaying two sampled animation frames side-by-side. On the left frame (48x48 pixels), there's a pixelated character in blue and gray armor with a mask covering their face, featuring visible chest plating, shoulder pads, and arm details; the character has a small white star on their lower torso and appears to be holding or interacting with a dark object. The right frame (also 48x48 pixels) shows text "Anime IM" in large pixelated letters at the top and "c0m" in smaller pixelated letters below it, both rendered in light gray against a black background. Both frames have visible dithering patterns typical of low-resolution GIFs from early internet eras, with slight variations between frames suggesting animation movement. The overall style is retro digital art consistent with late 1990s/early 2000s buddy icons for instant messaging platforms.

Description

A pixelated contact sheet showing two frames of an animated buddy icon featuring a character in blue and gray armor with a mask, alongside text reading "Anime IM" on the right frame.

Identity Hypotheses

Snake | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence: armored character with mask, but visual details don't match any specific Metal Gear Solid character

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • specific Metal Gear Solid character identity (mask style differs from known characters)

Metadata Only Entities

  • Metal Gear Solid character reference

Metadata Supported By Image

  • armored character design
  • text display format

Mood

  • neutral
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Anime IM | basis visible | confidence 0.95
  • c0m | basis visible | confidence 0.85

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Anime IM buddy icon
  • pixelated armored character mask
  • blue gray armor text c0m

Objects

  • small white star symbol
  • dark object held by character

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1 (two frames side-by-side)
  • sampled frame count: 2
  • source frame count: 2
  • review image pixels: 512x256
  • gray transparency background visible in contact sheet edges

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design
  • no nudity or explicit content visible

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest "Metal Gear Solid" character and "Anime IM" branding, but visual evidence only confirms armored character with mask and text elements

Style

  • pixelated digital art
  • retro internet style
  • low-resolution GIF

Subjects

  • armored character with mask

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Visually Supported Entities

  • Anime IM branding
  • pixelated digital art style

Wordwall

  • blue and gray armored character
  • masked face
  • chest plating
  • shoulder pads
  • arm details
  • small white star on torso
  • dark object held by character
  • pixelated text "Anime IM"
  • pixelated text "c0m"
  • black background with light gray text
  • dithering patterns
  • retro digital art style
  • low-resolution GIF
  • 48x48 pixel frame size
  • contact sheet layout
  • left frame character
  • right frame text
  • white star on armor
  • mask covering face
  • chest plating details
  • shoulder pad design
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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 snake 4 040907 gif
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:18 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