A 4x3 contact sheet of black-and-white portrait frames and pixelated text variations for "Story of the Year" displayed across multiple animation frames.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of black-and-white portrait frames and pixelated text variations for "Story of the Year" displayed across multiple animation frames.

A 4x3 contact sheet of black-and-white portrait frames and pixelated text variations for "Story of the Year" displayed across multiple animation frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Animation

  • frame 0-3: static portraits
  • frame 4-10: alternating text variations with pink highlight changes

Animation Summary

11-frame animation alternating between four black-and-white portrait headshots (top row) and seven variations of pixelated "STORY OF THE YEAR" text with pink highlight changes on gray backgrounds.

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • top row: four portrait frames
  • bottom two rows: seven text frames
  • uniform gray background across all frames

Dense Caption

The image is a 48x48 pixel animated icon review composed as an 11-frame contact sheet (4 columns, 3 rows) showing sequential animation frames. The top row contains four black-and-white portrait headshots: leftmost shows a person with short dark hair and sideburns; second from left has curly light brown hair; third is a blonde-haired individual with tousled hair; rightmost features a person with dark hair styled back. Below these, the remaining seven frames display pixelated text variations of "STORY OF THE YEAR" on gray backgrounds. The text uses black block letters with occasional pink highlights: some frames show all-black text (e.g., top-left), others highlight "STORY" in pink (middle row second frame), or "OF" in pink (middle row third frame), and one frame shows both "STORY" and "YEAR" highlighted in pink. The animation sequence alternates between portrait headshots and text variations, with the portraits appearing only in the top row frames while the lower rows exclusively show text. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style typical of early 2000s digital media, with visible dithering on grayscale tones and sharp black outlines around all shapes. The background is uniformly gray across all frames, indicating transparency for use as an instant messenger icon.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of black-and-white portrait frames and pixelated text variations for "Story of the Year" displayed across multiple animation frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Story of the Year | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text matches band name and context

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention "Good Charlotte" but no visual evidence supports this
  • source hints reference "Anthem of a Dying Day" which is not visually supported

Metadata Only Entities

  • Good Charlotte
  • Anthem of a Dying Day

Metadata Supported By Image

  • band name text matches visible "STORY OF THE YEAR"
  • pixel art style consistent with early 2000s digital media

Named Entities

  • Story of the Year

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • story of the year pixel art icon
  • 4x3 contact sheet story of the year animation
  • black and white portraits story of the year text
  • pixelated story of the year animated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 11 sampled animation frames (4x3 layout)
  • source frame count is 11
  • gray background indicates transparency for icon use

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest "Story of the Year" band name and music artist context, with some conflicting metadata about other bands like Good Charlotte or Anthem of a Dying Day

Visible Text

  • STORY OF THE YEAR

Visually Supported Entities

  • Story of the Year band name (text)
  • early 2000s digital art style

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait headshots
  • pixelated text "STORY OF THE YEAR"
  • gray background
  • 4x3 contact sheet layout
  • pink highlighted text variations
  • low-resolution pixel art style
  • dithered grayscale tones
  • sharp black outlines
  • sequential animation frames
  • text alternates with portraits
  • frame 0: short dark hair sideburns portrait
  • frame 1: curly light brown hair portrait
  • frame 2: blonde tousled hair portrait
  • frame 3: dark styled back hair portrait
  • frame 4: all-black text "STORY OF THE YEAR"
  • frame 5: pink "STORY" text
  • frame 6: pink "OF" text
  • frame 7: pink "YEAR" text
  • frame 8: pink "STORY" and "YEAR" text
  • visible dithering on hair textures
  • black block letter font
  • pixelated facial features
  • animation alternates between portraits and text

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / story of the year
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:19 UTC

GifCities Good Charlotte Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
Early-2000s Pop Punk Fan Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:15 UTC

GifCities Good Charlotte Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Music Fandom Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 06:20 UTC

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_distortedpurity_storyicon
Category
IconHell/Music
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:53 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.9 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5d52d6fac2b1afc3d82fe2bd46616dc3c57760230cd05cc437df05aeaa5e37e9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 01:15 UTC
Archive ID
5d52d6fac2b1afc3
SHA-256
5d52d6fac2b1afc3d82fe2bd46616dc3c57760230cd05cc437df05aeaa5e37e9
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082110

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925831onnx/unsafe0.082110onnx/nsfw0.045235onnx/nsfl0.036875
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 10:09 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 4x3 contact sheet of black-and-white portrait frames and pixelated text variations for "Story of the Year" displayed across multiple animation frames.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 10:09 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
10,924 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,135, response 1,348

Review tags

  • story of the year band name (subject, 0.95)
  • text variations animation (animation, 0.90)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • black and white portraits (subjects, 0.90)
  • pink highlighted text (text, 0.90)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.85)
  • 4x3 contact sheet layout (composition, 0.85)
  • early 2000s digital art (style, 0.85)

Animation

  • frame 0-3: static portraits
  • frame 4-10: alternating text variations with pink highlight changes

Animation Summary

11-frame animation alternating between four black-and-white portrait headshots (top row) and seven variations of pixelated "STORY OF THE YEAR" text with pink highlight changes on gray backgrounds.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • top row: four portrait frames
  • bottom two rows: seven text frames
  • uniform gray background across all frames

Dense Caption

The image is a 48x48 pixel animated icon review composed as an 11-frame contact sheet (4 columns, 3 rows) showing sequential animation frames. The top row contains four black-and-white portrait headshots: leftmost shows a person with short dark hair and sideburns; second from left has curly light brown hair; third is a blonde-haired individual with tousled hair; rightmost features a person with dark hair styled back. Below these, the remaining seven frames display pixelated text variations of "STORY OF THE YEAR" on gray backgrounds. The text uses black block letters with occasional pink highlights: some frames show all-black text (e.g., top-left), others highlight "STORY" in pink (middle row second frame), or "OF" in pink (middle row third frame), and one frame shows both "STORY" and "YEAR" highlighted in pink. The animation sequence alternates between portrait headshots and text variations, with the portraits appearing only in the top row frames while the lower rows exclusively show text. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style typical of early 2000s digital media, with visible dithering on grayscale tones and sharp black outlines around all shapes. The background is uniformly gray across all frames, indicating transparency for use as an instant messenger icon.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of black-and-white portrait frames and pixelated text variations for "Story of the Year" displayed across multiple animation frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Story of the Year | basis both | confidence high | evidence: visible text matches band name and context

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention "Good Charlotte" but no visual evidence supports this
  • source hints reference "Anthem of a Dying Day" which is not visually supported

Metadata Only Entities

  • Good Charlotte
  • Anthem of a Dying Day

Metadata Supported By Image

  • band name text matches visible "STORY OF THE YEAR"
  • pixel art style consistent with early 2000s digital media

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro
  • minimalist

Named Entities

  • Story of the Year

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • story of the year pixel art icon
  • 4x3 contact sheet story of the year animation
  • black and white portraits story of the year text
  • pixelated story of the year animated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 11 sampled animation frames (4x3 layout)
  • source frame count is 11
  • gray background indicates transparency for icon use

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest "Story of the Year" band name and music artist context, with some conflicting metadata about other bands like Good Charlotte or Anthem of a Dying Day

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • grayscale portraits
  • text-based animation

Subjects

  • person with short dark hair sideburns
  • person with curly light brown hair
  • person with blonde tousled hair
  • person with dark styled back hair

Visible Text

  • STORY OF THE YEAR

Visually Supported Entities

  • Story of the Year band name (text)
  • early 2000s digital art style

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait headshots
  • pixelated text "STORY OF THE YEAR"
  • gray background
  • 4x3 contact sheet layout
  • pink highlighted text variations
  • low-resolution pixel art style
  • dithered grayscale tones
  • sharp black outlines
  • sequential animation frames
  • text alternates with portraits
  • frame 0: short dark hair sideburns portrait
  • frame 1: curly light brown hair portrait
  • frame 2: blonde tousled hair portrait
  • frame 3: dark styled back hair portrait
  • frame 4: all-black text "STORY OF THE YEAR"
  • frame 5: pink "STORY" text
  • frame 6: pink "OF" text
  • frame 7: pink "YEAR" text
  • frame 8: pink "STORY" and "YEAR" text
  • visible dithering on hair textures
  • black block letter font
  • pixelated facial features
  • animation alternates between portraits and text
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Full source records (4)

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / story of the year
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1105801259_1006787241.gif | whitr90 Anthem of a dying day | animated | myoldicons id 173000
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

GifCities Good Charlotte Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-good-charlotte-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-2000s Pop Punk Fan Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:15 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities Good Charlotte icon candidates

GifCities Good Charlotte Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-good-charlotte-avatar-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Music Fandom Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square Good Charlotte avatar candidates from GeoCities fan pages

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/Music
Title
iconhell_distortedpurity_storyicon
Archive entry
IconHell/Music/iconhell_distortedpurity_storyicon.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:53 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