A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated frames from an animated icon featuring Ben Folds, with text "BEN FOLDS" in the top-left corner and various poses across sampled frames.

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A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated frames from an animated icon featuring Ben Folds, with text "BEN FOLDS" in the top-left corner and various poses across sampled frames.

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated frames from an animated icon featuring Ben Folds, with text "BEN FOLDS" in the top-left corner and various poses across sampled frames. Animated 5…

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Animation

  • frame 0: static text frame
  • frame 1: arm raised pose
  • frame 2: hat wearing pose
  • frame 3: close-up portrait
  • frame 4: seated pose
  • frame 5: partial profile view
  • frame 6: blurred background with motion effect

Animation Summary

Seven sequential frames showing a person in various poses with subtle changes between samples, starting from static text frame followed by dynamic pose variations.

Composition

  • 3x3 grid with empty bottom-right corner
  • top-left text block
  • six image frames arranged left-to-right top-to-bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid contact sheet containing seven visible frames from an animated icon. The top-left frame displays bold white block letters spelling "BEN FOLDS" on a black background. The remaining six frames show pixelated, sepia-toned images of a person in various poses: one with arms raised against a blurred background, another wearing a hat and holding something near the chest, two close-up portraits from different angles, one seated pose, and one partial profile view. All frames exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital art, with dithering effects creating texture in skin tones and clothing. The grid layout includes empty space on the bottom-right corner. Each frame appears to be a sequential sample from an animation sequence, showing subtle changes in posture and background across sampled frames.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated frames from an animated icon featuring Ben Folds, with text "BEN FOLDS" in the top-left corner and various poses across sampled frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Ben Folds | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "BEN FOLDS" text + portrait resemblance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible musical instruments or band elements in frames to confirm music context beyond text

Metadata Only Entities

  • music artist category from source hints only

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text "BEN FOLDS" matches source hint name
  • pixelated style consistent with early digital art era

Named Entities

  • Ben Folds

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ben folds animated icon
  • pixel art contact sheet ben folds
  • sepia tone ben folds animation frames
  • buddy icon ben folds text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout contains seven sampled frames from an animated icon
  • sourceFrameCount indicates total animation frames may be higher than visible samples
  • gray transparency background in bottom-right corner is display context not content
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom as sequential animation sample

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content; all images are pixelated portraits of a person in casual poses

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify this as Ben Folds related content with music artist category and animated icon status

Style

  • dithered texture

Visible Text

  • BEN FOLDS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ben Folds (identity hypothesis) based on text and visual similarity to known portraits

Wordwall

  • BEN FOLDS text
  • pixelated contact sheet
  • 3x3 grid layout
  • sepia-toned images
  • black background top-left
  • white block letters
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering texture
  • multiple poses
  • arm raised pose
  • hat wearing pose
  • seated pose
  • close-up portrait
  • partial profile view
  • blurred background frames
  • gray transparency bottom-right
  • seven sampled frames
  • sequential animation sequence
  • text on black background
  • pixelation artifacts

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / ben folds
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:19 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/2c/2cc2a187ae5be1d90740cb45197ccc2d1ab60e0716924ae7065308f2e34257d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Archive ID
2cc2a187ae5be1d9
SHA-256
2cc2a187ae5be1d90740cb45197ccc2d1ab60e0716924ae7065308f2e34257d0
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.190700

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921521onnx/unsafe0.190700onnx/nsfw0.149949onnx/nsfl0.040752
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 09:57 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

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated frames from an animated icon featuring Ben Folds, with text "BEN FOLDS" in the top-left corner and various poses across sampled frames.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,734 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,998, response 1,149

Review tags

  • text on black background (composition, 0.95)
  • ben fols (person, 0.95)
  • low resolution pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • sepia tone (color scheme, 0.90)
  • multiple poses (action, 0.85)
  • contact sheet (layout, 0.85)
  • gray transparency background (display context, 0.75)

Actions

  • arm raised
  • hat wearing
  • seated pose
  • close-up portrait
  • partial profile view

Animation

  • frame 0: static text frame
  • frame 1: arm raised pose
  • frame 2: hat wearing pose
  • frame 3: close-up portrait
  • frame 4: seated pose
  • frame 5: partial profile view
  • frame 6: blurred background with motion effect

Animation Summary

Seven sequential frames showing a person in various poses with subtle changes between samples, starting from static text frame followed by dynamic pose variations.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • sepia tones
  • gray transparency

Composition

  • 3x3 grid with empty bottom-right corner
  • top-left text block
  • six image frames arranged left-to-right top-to-bottom

Dense Caption

The image is a 3x3 grid contact sheet containing seven visible frames from an animated icon. The top-left frame displays bold white block letters spelling "BEN FOLDS" on a black background. The remaining six frames show pixelated, sepia-toned images of a person in various poses: one with arms raised against a blurred background, another wearing a hat and holding something near the chest, two close-up portraits from different angles, one seated pose, and one partial profile view. All frames exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital art, with dithering effects creating texture in skin tones and clothing. The grid layout includes empty space on the bottom-right corner. Each frame appears to be a sequential sample from an animation sequence, showing subtle changes in posture and background across sampled frames.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of pixelated frames from an animated icon featuring Ben Folds, with text "BEN FOLDS" in the top-left corner and various poses across sampled frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Ben Folds | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible "BEN FOLDS" text + portrait resemblance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible musical instruments or band elements in frames to confirm music context beyond text

Metadata Only Entities

  • music artist category from source hints only

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text "BEN FOLDS" matches source hint name
  • pixelated style consistent with early digital art era

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro digital art

Named Entities

  • Ben Folds

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ben folds animated icon
  • pixel art contact sheet ben folds
  • sepia tone ben folds animation frames
  • buddy icon ben folds text

Objects

  • hat
  • blurred background elements

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout contains seven sampled frames from an animated icon
  • sourceFrameCount indicates total animation frames may be higher than visible samples
  • gray transparency background in bottom-right corner is display context not content
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom as sequential animation sample

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content; all images are pixelated portraits of a person in casual poses

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify this as Ben Folds related content with music artist category and animated icon status

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered texture
  • contact sheet layout

Subjects

  • Ben Folds (identity hypothesis)
  • person in multiple poses

Visible Text

  • BEN FOLDS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ben Folds (identity hypothesis) based on text and visual similarity to known portraits

Wordwall

  • BEN FOLDS text
  • pixelated contact sheet
  • 3x3 grid layout
  • sepia-toned images
  • black background top-left
  • white block letters
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering texture
  • multiple poses
  • arm raised pose
  • hat wearing pose
  • seated pose
  • close-up portrait
  • partial profile view
  • blurred background frames
  • gray transparency bottom-right
  • seven sampled frames
  • sequential animation sequence
  • text on black background
  • pixelation artifacts
Raw JSON
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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 / ben folds
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1100785234_1635611615.gif | efinpita ben folds five 5 | animated | myoldicons id 172704
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:19 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