Animated contact sheet of a 48x48 pixel icon showing red text and abstract shapes in various states of distortion across eight frames.

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Animated contact sheet of a 48x48 pixel icon showing red text and abstract shapes in various states of distortion across eight frames.

Animated contact sheet of a 48x48 pixel icon showing red text and abstract shapes in various states of distortion across eight frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from MyOld…

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Animation

  • text fragments degrade across frames
  • white shapes shift slightly between frames
  • final frame shows 'DEAD' as complete word

Animation Summary

Text fragments degrade across frames from 'im better off' to complete 'DEAD', with white shapes shifting slightly between frames showing distortion effects.

Composition

  • central text focus
  • distorted shapes surrounding text
  • contact sheet layout (3x3 grid)

Dense Caption

The image is an animated contact sheet displaying eight sequential frames from a 48x48 pixel AIM buddy icon. Each frame features distorted white and black abstract shapes with prominent red text elements against a gray background. The visible content includes fragmented red text reading 'im better off' in most frames, with the final frame showing 'DEAD' as a distinct word. Some frames exhibit partial text distortion where letters appear broken or scattered (e.g., 'im b3tter off', 'im bett3r off'). The abstract shapes show subtle variations across frames: some have smooth white curves while others display pixelated edges, and the black background areas shift slightly between frames. A few frames contain small red dots resembling digital artifacts or intentional design elements. The animation appears to involve text degradation and shape distortion rather than character movement. The overall visual style is low-resolution with visible dithering and pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art, suggesting a nostalgic or melancholic tone through the distorted text and fading shapes.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet of a 48x48 pixel icon showing red text and abstract shapes in various states of distortion across eight frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • dead | basis both | confidence high | evidence: final frame shows 'DEAD' text and melancholic degradation sequence

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible character or mascot
  • no explicit death imagery beyond text
  • no clear emotional expression in shapes

Metadata Only Entities

  • IconHell/Death category
  • MyOldIcons / emotions / depressed category
  • iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text degradation implies narrative progression
  • final frame shows 'DEAD' word
  • low-resolution aesthetic matches early AIM era

Named Entities

  • dead | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dead text animation
  • im better off degradation
  • low resolution dead icon
  • text fragments degrade to DEAD
  • red text im better off
  • pixelated death animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • 8 sampled frames arranged in 3x3 contact sheet with gray background transparency
  • sourceFrameCount: 8
  • contactSheetLayout: 3x3
  • reviewImagePixels: 768x768

Safety Notes

  • visible text contains adult-language phrases requiring review

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'depressed' emotion, 'death' theme, and 'iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead' name with possible connection to 'MyOldIcons' collection

Uncertain Text

  • im b3tter off
  • im bett3r off
  • im better off (fragmented)

Visible Text

  • im better off
  • DEAD
  • b3tter
  • bettr
  • off
  • im
  • better

Visually Supported Entities

  • early 2000s digital art style
  • AIM buddy icon format

Wordwall

  • red text 'im better off'
  • fragmented red text
  • distorted white abstract shapes
  • black background areas
  • gray contact sheet background
  • pixelated edges
  • dithering patterns
  • small red dots
  • text degradation animation
  • final frame shows 'DEAD'
  • smooth white curves
  • scattered letters
  • low-resolution digital art
  • early 2000s aesthetic
  • narrative text sequence
  • distortion effect
  • red color emphasis
  • white and black contrast
  • pixelated background
  • animation frames 0-7
  • contact sheet layout
  • text fragments
  • visual degradation
  • digital artifacts

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / emotions / depressed
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:28 UTC

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead
Category
IconHell/Death
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/10/101b50b53cc7a309c0ae87440882a2205865336e8dd2dfdfcd0b8f21e4d7ac97.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:10 UTC
Archive ID
101b50b53cc7a309
SHA-256
101b50b53cc7a309c0ae87440882a2205865336e8dd2dfdfcd0b8f21e4d7ac97
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
72
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.011906

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm0.011906falseviolence/graphic0.001562falseviolence0.001144falseharassment0.000623falseself-harm/intent0.000469falseself-harm/instructions0.000241falsesexual0.000062falseharassment/threatening0.000029falsehate0.000010falseillicit0.000009falseillicit/violent0.000003falsesexual/minors0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001false

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
0.620343

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.725252onnx/unsafe0.620343onnx/nsfl0.568020onnx/nsfw0.052323
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-importprovider flaggedprovider review
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
28
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
questionable
Overall score
0.800000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review1.000000truelegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated contact sheet of a 48x48 pixel icon showing red text and abstract shapes in various states of distortion across eight frames.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
28,046 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,069, response 1,373

Review tags

  • red text (color, 0.98)
  • low resolution pixel art (style, 0.97)
  • final frame dead (text, 0.96)
  • text degradation animation (animation, 0.95)
  • degraded text (subject, 0.95)
  • fragmented text (subject, 0.94)
  • early 2000s digital art (style, 0.93)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.92)
  • black background areas (background, 0.91)
  • white abstract shapes (subjects, 0.87)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.85)
  • small red dots (objects, 0.82)

Actions

  • text degradation
  • shape distortion
  • frame-to-frame animation

Animation

  • text fragments degrade across frames
  • white shapes shift slightly between frames
  • final frame shows 'DEAD' as complete word

Animation Summary

Text fragments degrade across frames from 'im better off' to complete 'DEAD', with white shapes shifting slightly between frames showing distortion effects.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • central text focus
  • distorted shapes surrounding text
  • contact sheet layout (3x3 grid)

Dense Caption

The image is an animated contact sheet displaying eight sequential frames from a 48x48 pixel AIM buddy icon. Each frame features distorted white and black abstract shapes with prominent red text elements against a gray background. The visible content includes fragmented red text reading 'im better off' in most frames, with the final frame showing 'DEAD' as a distinct word. Some frames exhibit partial text distortion where letters appear broken or scattered (e.g., 'im b3tter off', 'im bett3r off'). The abstract shapes show subtle variations across frames: some have smooth white curves while others display pixelated edges, and the black background areas shift slightly between frames. A few frames contain small red dots resembling digital artifacts or intentional design elements. The animation appears to involve text degradation and shape distortion rather than character movement. The overall visual style is low-resolution with visible dithering and pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art, suggesting a nostalgic or melancholic tone through the distorted text and fading shapes.

Description

  • Animated contact sheet of a 48x48 pixel icon showing red text and abstract shapes in various states of distortion across eight frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • dead | basis both | confidence high | evidence: final frame shows 'DEAD' text and melancholic degradation sequence

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible character or mascot
  • no explicit death imagery beyond text
  • no clear emotional expression in shapes

Metadata Only Entities

  • IconHell/Death category
  • MyOldIcons / emotions / depressed category
  • iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text degradation implies narrative progression
  • final frame shows 'DEAD' word
  • low-resolution aesthetic matches early AIM era

Mood

  • melancholic
  • narrative
  • depressing

Named Entities

  • dead | basis both

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dead text animation
  • im better off degradation
  • low resolution dead icon
  • text fragments degrade to DEAD
  • red text im better off
  • pixelated death animation

Objects

  • red text elements
  • small red dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • 8 sampled frames arranged in 3x3 contact sheet with gray background transparency
  • sourceFrameCount: 8
  • contactSheetLayout: 3x3
  • reviewImagePixels: 768x768

Safety Notes

  • visible text contains adult-language phrases requiring review

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'depressed' emotion, 'death' theme, and 'iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead' name with possible connection to 'MyOldIcons' collection

Style

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering patterns
  • early 2000s digital aesthetic

Subjects

  • abstract white shapes
  • black background areas

Uncertain Text

  • im b3tter off
  • im bett3r off
  • im better off (fragmented)

Visible Text

  • im better off
  • DEAD
  • b3tter
  • bettr
  • off
  • im
  • better

Visually Supported Entities

  • early 2000s digital art style
  • AIM buddy icon format

Wordwall

  • red text 'im better off'
  • fragmented red text
  • distorted white abstract shapes
  • black background areas
  • gray contact sheet background
  • pixelated edges
  • dithering patterns
  • small red dots
  • text degradation animation
  • final frame shows 'DEAD'
  • smooth white curves
  • scattered letters
  • low-resolution digital art
  • early 2000s aesthetic
  • narrative text sequence
  • distortion effect
  • red color emphasis
  • white and black contrast
  • pixelated background
  • animation frames 0-7
  • contact sheet layout
  • text fragments
  • visual degradation
  • digital artifacts
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Full source records (2)

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / emotions / depressed
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1105836701_732608690.gif | svjamerz44 Whats wrong when nothings wrings is a hard question to answer | animated | myoldicons id 156521
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:28 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

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/Death
Title
iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead
Archive entry
IconHell/Death/iconhell_xxsarz14xx_dead.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture