Permanent icon record
A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a black background with white "THUG LIFE" text on the left and a grayscale running figure on the right, displayed as a contact sheet of two frames.
A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a black background with white "THUG LIFE" text on the left and a grayscale running figure on the right, displayed as a contact sheet of…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival
- Source title
- MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
- Category
- myoldicons / music artists / ja rule
- Era
- Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 50×50 pixels
- File size
- 5.7 KB
- Motion
- Animated (2 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/9b/9b9cb47752144d821b5638cc5cec8e382a7cac65f2e72e7e8bfd23413cb69ce2.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
- Archive ID
- 9b9cb47752144d82
- SHA-256
- 9b9cb47752144d821b5638cc5cec8e382a7cac65f2e72e7e8bfd23413cb69ce2
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.149280
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 13, 2026 at 09:38 UTC
- Run
- 30
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a black background with white "THUG LIFE" text on the left and a grayscale running figure on the right, displayed as a contact sheet of two frames.
- Reviewed
- July 13, 2026 at 09:38 UTC
- Run
- 30
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 13,364 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 3,021, response 1,133
Review tags
- black background (color, 0.95)
- low resolution gif (format, 0.95)
- thug life text (subject, 0.90)
- pixelated animation (style, 0.85)
- dynamic posture (action, 0.80)
- contact sheet layout (composition, 0.80)
- grayscale running figure (subject, 0.75)
- aol instant messenger icon (medium, 0.70)
- motion blur (style, 0.70)
Actions
- running
- raising arm
Animation
- frame 0: static text; frame 1: moving figure with motion blur
Animation Summary
Two-frame animation alternating between static "THUG LIFE" text and grayscale running character with motion blur; frame 0 shows text-only, frame 1 shows dynamic movement
Colors
- black
- white
- gray
Composition
- left-right split
- contact sheet layout
Dense Caption
The image is a contact-sheet layout (2x1) showing two sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. On the left frame, bold white pixelated text "THUG LIFE" appears against a solid black background; the letters have slight dithering and anti-aliasing artifacts typical of low-resolution GIFs. The right frame shows a grayscale running figure with visible motion blur on limbs, wearing a light-colored sleeveless shirt and dark pants; the figure's pose suggests forward movement with one arm raised and bent at the elbow. Both frames share a gray transparency background common in AIM icons. The animation appears to cycle between static text (left) and moving character (right), though only two sampled frames are visible here. Pixelation is high due to the 50x50 size limit, but key details like the text's blocky font and the figure's dynamic posture remain distinguishable.
Description
A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a black background with white "THUG LIFE" text on the left and a grayscale running figure on the right, displayed as a contact sheet of two frames.
Identity Hypotheses
- Ja Rule | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence source hint mentions "ja rule thug life" but pixels show generic figure only
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- running figure identity not confirmed by pixels alone; no explicit Ja Rule likeness visible
Metadata Only Entities
- Ja Rule (music artist)
Metadata Supported By Image
- "THUG LIFE" text matches source hint about "thug life" reference
Mood
- energetic
- urban
Named Entities
- Thug Life | basis visible | confidence high | evidence exact text match
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- thug life pixel art
- grayscale running figure gif
- aol instant messenger buddy icon
- black white thug life animation
- 50x50 animated contact sheet
Objects
- sleeveless shirt
- dark pants
Preprocessing Notes
Contact sheet (2x1) showing two sampled frames from a 50x50 animated icon; gray transparency background visible between frames; sourceFrameCount=2, sampledFrameCount=2
Safety Notes
- No explicit content; text is non-sexual branding phrase
Source Metadata Interpretation
Source hints identify as "MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API" with title "1100774915_1812698023.gif", metadata mentions "ja rule thug life" and category "music artists / ja rule"; suggests connection to Ja Rule's "Thug Life" branding
Style
- pixelated
- grayscale
- low-resolution GIF
Subjects
- running figure
- text block
Visible Text
- THUG LIFE
Visually Supported Entities
- "THUG LIFE" text branding
- grayscale running character concept
Wordwall
- black background
- white pixelated text
- THUG LIFE text
- grayscale running figure
- sleeveless shirt
- dark pants
- arm raised pose
- motion blur on limbs
- pixelated animation frame
- contact sheet layout
- gray transparency background
- blocky font style
- low-resolution GIF
- text-only frame
- character movement frame
- dithering artifacts
- anti-aliasing edges
- dynamic posture
- left-right split composition
Raw JSON
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"fandoms": [],
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}Source semantic tags (8)
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 / ja rule
- Title
- MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
- Alt
- 1100774915_1812698023.gif | aburd388 ja rule thug life | animated | myoldicons id 172277
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 09:17 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
Original: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Music%20Artists/Ja%20Rule/1100774915_1812698023.gif Download: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Music%20Artists/Ja%20Rule/1100774915_1812698023.gif Page: https://myoldicons.com/api/icons?category=music_artists