A 4x4 contact sheet of animated frames showing a pixelated design with pink text 'FAILURE BY DESIGN' on white background, each frame displaying slight variations in the text's underline and border elements.

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A 4x4 contact sheet of animated frames showing a pixelated design with pink text 'FAILURE BY DESIGN' on white background, each frame displaying slight variations in the text's underline and border elements.

A 4x4 contact sheet of animated frames showing a pixelated design with pink text 'FAILURE BY DESIGN' on white background, each frame displaying slight variations in the text's und…

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Animation

  • underline style changes between frames
  • border pattern variations across sequence

Animation Summary

  • 13-frame animation showing subtle variations in underline styles and border patterns across frames while maintaining consistent text layout

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • vertical stripe background element
  • consistent frame size

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of 16 animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a pixelated design with bold pink uppercase text reading "FAILURE" at the top, followed by smaller pink lowercase text "BY", then larger pink uppercase text "DESIGN" below it. The background is white with subtle gray vertical stripes on the left edge of each frame. Frame-to-frame variations include differences in the underline beneath "DESIGN": some frames have solid black underlines, others dotted lines, and one frame shows a horizontal line without dots. Border elements around the text vary between solid black outlines and dashed or dotted patterns. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette (pink, white, gray, black) typical of early 2000s digital graphics. Each frame maintains consistent layout but exhibits subtle animation changes in underline styles and border details across the sequence.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of animated frames showing a pixelated design with pink text 'FAILURE BY DESIGN' on white background, each frame displaying slight variations in the text's underline and border elements.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Failure By Design | basis both | confidence high | evidence: exact text matches source hint name

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visual evidence of music-related symbols or instruments to confirm musical context

Metadata Only Entities

  • myoldicons / music artists / failure by design

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text layout matches suggested name "Failure By Design"

Named Entities

  • Failure By Design

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • failure by design pixel art icon
  • pixelated failure by design animation
  • 48x48 failure by design buddy icon
  • retro pixel art failure by design

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 16 sampled frames (4x4 grid)
  • sourceFrameCount indicates 13 total animation frames
  • gray areas represent transparency background in original icon
  • each frame is 48x48 pixels as per source metadata

Safety Notes

  • text contains no explicit content or nudity references

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify this as 'Failure By Design' music artist content from MyOldIcons collection
  • non-authoritative title suggests musical context but not confirmed by visible elements

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • FAILURE
  • BY
  • DESIGN

Visually Supported Entities

  • failure by design text
  • pixel art icon style

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • failure by design
  • pink uppercase letters
  • smaller pink lowercase letters
  • white background
  • gray vertical stripes
  • solid black underline
  • dotted line underline
  • horizontal line underline
  • black outline borders
  • dashed border patterns
  • retro pixel art style
  • 4x4 contact sheet
  • animation frame sequence
  • text layout consistency
  • underline variation
  • border detail changes
  • frame-to-frame differences

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / failure by design
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:29 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/52b855eac4acf6a45495ef20a2602e905e377b01fc0daa7b27320426353be8f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
Archive ID
52b855eac4acf6a4
SHA-256
52b855eac4acf6a45495ef20a2602e905e377b01fc0daa7b27320426353be8f2
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091937

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912811onnx/unsafe0.091937onnx/nsfw0.053846onnx/nsfl0.038091
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 12:29 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 4x4 contact sheet of animated frames showing a pixelated design with pink text 'FAILURE BY DESIGN' on white background, each frame displaying slight variations in the text's underline and border elements.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
16,598 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,018, response 1,086

Review tags

  • retro pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • failure by design text (subject, 0.95)
  • white background (background, 0.90)
  • pink uppercase letters (color, 0.90)
  • 4x4 contact sheet (layout, 0.90)
  • animation frame sequence (motion, 0.85)
  • gray vertical stripes (pattern, 0.85)
  • dotted line underline (text detail, 0.80)
  • solid black underline (text detail, 0.80)

Animation

  • underline style changes between frames
  • border pattern variations across sequence

Animation Summary

  • 13-frame animation showing subtle variations in underline styles and border patterns across frames while maintaining consistent text layout

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • vertical stripe background element
  • consistent frame size

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of 16 animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a pixelated design with bold pink uppercase text reading "FAILURE" at the top, followed by smaller pink lowercase text "BY", then larger pink uppercase text "DESIGN" below it. The background is white with subtle gray vertical stripes on the left edge of each frame. Frame-to-frame variations include differences in the underline beneath "DESIGN": some frames have solid black underlines, others dotted lines, and one frame shows a horizontal line without dots. Border elements around the text vary between solid black outlines and dashed or dotted patterns. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette (pink, white, gray, black) typical of early 2000s digital graphics. Each frame maintains consistent layout but exhibits subtle animation changes in underline styles and border details across the sequence.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of animated frames showing a pixelated design with pink text 'FAILURE BY DESIGN' on white background, each frame displaying slight variations in the text's underline and border elements.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Failure By Design | basis both | confidence high | evidence: exact text matches source hint name

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visual evidence of music-related symbols or instruments to confirm musical context

Metadata Only Entities

  • myoldicons / music artists / failure by design

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text layout matches suggested name "Failure By Design"

Mood

  • minimalist
  • playful
  • ironic

Named Entities

  • Failure By Design

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • failure by design pixel art icon
  • pixelated failure by design animation
  • 48x48 failure by design buddy icon
  • retro pixel art failure by design

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 16 sampled frames (4x4 grid)
  • sourceFrameCount indicates 13 total animation frames
  • gray areas represent transparency background in original icon
  • each frame is 48x48 pixels as per source metadata

Safety Notes

  • text contains no explicit content or nudity references

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify this as 'Failure By Design' music artist content from MyOldIcons collection
  • non-authoritative title suggests musical context but not confirmed by visible elements

Style

  • retro pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics
  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • pixelated text design

Visible Text

  • FAILURE
  • BY
  • DESIGN

Visually Supported Entities

  • failure by design text
  • pixel art icon style

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • failure by design
  • pink uppercase letters
  • smaller pink lowercase letters
  • white background
  • gray vertical stripes
  • solid black underline
  • dotted line underline
  • horizontal line underline
  • black outline borders
  • dashed border patterns
  • retro pixel art style
  • 4x4 contact sheet
  • animation frame sequence
  • text layout consistency
  • underline variation
  • border detail changes
  • frame-to-frame differences
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 / failure by design
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1121955758_1532066005.gif | carryxonxandxon Failure By Design | animated | myoldicons id 176139
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:29 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