Pixelated text-based contact sheet showing multiple frames of an animated icon with pink and purple pixel art on dark backgrounds, including a gray transparency area.

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Pixelated text-based contact sheet showing multiple frames of an animated icon with pink and purple pixel art on dark backgrounds, including a gray transparency area.

Pixelated text-based contact sheet showing multiple frames of an animated icon with pink and purple pixel art on dark backgrounds, including a gray transparency area. Animated 48×…

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Animation

  • text elements change across frames
  • different words appear sequentially

Animation Summary

Five-frame animation showing sequential appearance of text elements: first frame displays "Why have you been so Sad?" on green background, followed by four frames with individual words "Death," "Cab," "For," and "Cutie" appearing in pink pixelated font across black backgrounds with teal dot patterns.

Composition

  • 3x2 contact sheet layout
  • left frame solid background
  • right frames patterned backgrounds
  • text arranged in separate sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x2 contact sheet containing five visible animation frames from a single animated buddy icon. The leftmost frame features purple pixelated text reading "Why have you been so Sad?" on a solid dark green background. The remaining four frames show pink pixelated text elements: "Death," "Cab," "For," and "Cutie" arranged across the right side of the sheet, each on a black background with subtle teal dot patterns. A large gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner, indicating transparency or an empty frame area. All text uses a retro 8-bit pixel art style with jagged edges typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is split between dark backgrounds (green and black) with contrasting bright pink/purple text, creating high visual contrast common in vintage computer interfaces.

Description

Pixelated text-based contact sheet showing multiple frames of an animated icon with pink and purple pixel art on dark backgrounds, including a gray transparency area.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Death Cab For Cutie | basis both | high confidence | visible text matches band name spelling and structure

Metadata Only Entities

  • Death Cab For Cutie

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text elements match band name spelling (Death Cab For Cutie)
  • pixelated style consistent with early 2000s digital art

Named Entities

  • Death Cab For Cutie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Death Cab For Cutie pixel art icon
  • 8-bit text animation buddy icon
  • Why have you been so Sad? AIM icon
  • retro digital music artist avatar

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 5 sampled animation frames (indices 0-4)
  • 3x2 grid layout with gray transparency area on bottom-right
  • source frame count 5 matches sampled frame count
  • review image size 768x512 pixels

Safety Notes

  • text contains non-explicit language referencing sadness but no sexual/gore content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify as "Death Cab For Cutie" music artist icon from MyOldIcons collection
  • suggests this is an animated buddy icon for the band
  • indicates intended use in AOL Instant Messenger context

Visible Text

  • Why have you been so Sad?
  • Death
  • Cab
  • For
  • Cutie

Visually Supported Entities

  • music artist
  • band name text

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • retro 8-bit font
  • purple text on green background
  • pink text on black background
  • teal dot pattern
  • gray transparency area
  • contact sheet layout
  • text-based animation
  • Why have you been so Sad?
  • Death Cab For Cutie
  • dark backgrounds
  • high contrast colors
  • jagged pixel edges
  • solid dark green frame
  • subtle teal dots
  • animation frames
  • text-only icon
  • pixel art style
  • 8-bit graphics
  • visible text elements

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / death cab for cutie
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:24 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/0f/0fcd372166346464ea8029bde38e4c950ce45c1fc03ea1003fe7466710325e16.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
Archive ID
0fcd372166346464
SHA-256
0fcd372166346464ea8029bde38e4c950ce45c1fc03ea1003fe7466710325e16
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
72
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004665

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm0.004665falseviolence0.000519falseself-harm/intent0.000288falseself-harm/instructions0.000216falseharassment0.000049falsesexual0.000022falseviolence/graphic0.000017falseillicit0.000009falseharassment/threatening0.000007falsehate0.000005falseillicit/violent0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/violence1.000000textenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:07 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.741667

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.795444onnx/unsafe0.741667onnx/nsfw0.669616onnx/nsfl0.072051
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 11:23 UTC
Run
30
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

Pixelated text-based contact sheet showing multiple frames of an animated icon with pink and purple pixel art on dark backgrounds, including a gray transparency area.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 11:23 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
14,398 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,040, response 1,108

Review tags

  • pixelated text (subject, 0.95)
  • why have you been so sad (text, 0.95)
  • text based animation (animation, 0.90)
  • pink text (color, 0.90)
  • purple text (color, 0.90)
  • gray transparency area (element, 0.90)
  • 8 bit font (style, 0.90)
  • retro digital graphics (style, 0.90)
  • black background with teal dots (background, 0.85)
  • dark green background (background, 0.85)
  • death cab for cutie (entity, 0.85)

Animation

  • text elements change across frames
  • different words appear sequentially

Animation Summary

Five-frame animation showing sequential appearance of text elements: first frame displays "Why have you been so Sad?" on green background, followed by four frames with individual words "Death," "Cab," "For," and "Cutie" appearing in pink pixelated font across black backgrounds with teal dot patterns.

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • dark green
  • black
  • teal
  • gray

Composition

  • 3x2 contact sheet layout
  • left frame solid background
  • right frames patterned backgrounds
  • text arranged in separate sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x2 contact sheet containing five visible animation frames from a single animated buddy icon. The leftmost frame features purple pixelated text reading "Why have you been so Sad?" on a solid dark green background. The remaining four frames show pink pixelated text elements: "Death," "Cab," "For," and "Cutie" arranged across the right side of the sheet, each on a black background with subtle teal dot patterns. A large gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner, indicating transparency or an empty frame area. All text uses a retro 8-bit pixel art style with jagged edges typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is split between dark backgrounds (green and black) with contrasting bright pink/purple text, creating high visual contrast common in vintage computer interfaces.

Description

Pixelated text-based contact sheet showing multiple frames of an animated icon with pink and purple pixel art on dark backgrounds, including a gray transparency area.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Death Cab For Cutie | basis both | high confidence | visible text matches band name spelling and structure

Metadata Only Entities

  • Death Cab For Cutie

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text elements match band name spelling (Death Cab For Cutie)
  • pixelated style consistent with early 2000s digital art

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful
  • mysterious

Named Entities

  • Death Cab For Cutie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Death Cab For Cutie pixel art icon
  • 8-bit text animation buddy icon
  • Why have you been so Sad? AIM icon
  • retro digital music artist avatar

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 5 sampled animation frames (indices 0-4)
  • 3x2 grid layout with gray transparency area on bottom-right
  • source frame count 5 matches sampled frame count
  • review image size 768x512 pixels

Safety Notes

  • text contains non-explicit language referencing sadness but no sexual/gore content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify as "Death Cab For Cutie" music artist icon from MyOldIcons collection
  • suggests this is an animated buddy icon for the band
  • indicates intended use in AOL Instant Messenger context

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro digital graphics
  • jagged edges
  • low-resolution text

Subjects

  • text characters
  • pixelated letters

Visible Text

  • Why have you been so Sad?
  • Death
  • Cab
  • For
  • Cutie

Visually Supported Entities

  • music artist
  • band name text

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • retro 8-bit font
  • purple text on green background
  • pink text on black background
  • teal dot pattern
  • gray transparency area
  • contact sheet layout
  • text-based animation
  • Why have you been so Sad?
  • Death Cab For Cutie
  • dark backgrounds
  • high contrast colors
  • jagged pixel edges
  • solid dark green frame
  • subtle teal dots
  • animation frames
  • text-only icon
  • pixel art style
  • 8-bit graphics
  • visible text elements
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Full source records (1)

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / death cab for cutie
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1113702704_418758853.gif | emmie3092 Death Cab For Cutie | animated | myoldicons id 174720
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:24 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