Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a music-themed buddy icon with handwritten text, stylized typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a microphone.

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Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a music-themed buddy icon with handwritten text, stylized typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a microphone.

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Animation

  • frame 0: handwritten text with ink blot
  • frame 1: blocky 'I'M ON THE SOUND' text
  • frame 2: partial microphone portrait

Animation Summary

Three-frame animation cycles through handwritten text, blocky 'I'M ON THE SOUND' typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a white microphone against dark background.

Composition

  • contact sheet layout
  • partial portrait framing
  • text-heavy top frames

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 contact sheet containing three sampled animation frames from an animated AIM buddy icon. The top-left frame shows black handwritten-style text on a light beige background with visible brush strokes and a small circular ink blot; the text appears to be 'The' followed by additional cursive characters. The top-right frame displays blocky, pixelated dark brown or black text reading 'I'M ON THE SOUND' in all caps across three lines against a textured beige backdrop. The bottom-left frame features a partial portrait of a person with long dark hair holding a white microphone near their mouth; the background is dark and indistinct, with visible digital noise and low-resolution artifacts. All frames are arranged on a gray transparency background typical of contact sheets. The animation appears to cycle through these three distinct visual states without motion blur or transitional effects between frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a music-themed buddy icon with handwritten text, stylized typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a microphone.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown artist | basis both | confidence low | evidence: microphone, music text

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • specific artist identity not visible in portrait
  • exact song title 'Killing me softly' not present in text

Metadata Only Entities

  • Killing me softly with his song (title)
  • myoldicons id 177517 (id)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text elements match general music theme
  • microphone implies musical performance

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • handwritten text beige background ink blot
  • blocky I'M ON THE SOUND pixelated text
  • microphone held long dark hair low-res portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x2
  • sampled frame count 3 from source frame count 3
  • gray transparency background for contact sheet display

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest music artist context with 'Killing me softly with his song' title reference and 'myoldicons id 177517' category

Visible Text

  • The
  • I'M ON THE SOUND

Visually Supported Entities

  • music-themed icon
  • handwritten script logo
  • blocky typography design

Wordwall

  • handwritten text
  • beige background
  • ink blot
  • blocky pixelated text
  • I'M ON THE SOUND
  • microphone held by person
  • long dark hair
  • digital noise
  • low-resolution portrait
  • contact sheet layout
  • gray transparency background
  • textured backdrop
  • cursive script
  • all caps text
  • partial face visible
  • white microphone
  • dark background
  • brush stroke texture
  • pixelation artifacts

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / assorted artists
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:33 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a837f46fc2c61311a82ebeafb98d31690deea1b5a5b8d4e68bccd9cbfdfba6a4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
Archive ID
a837f46fc2c61311
SHA-256
a837f46fc2c61311a82ebeafb98d31690deea1b5a5b8d4e68bccd9cbfdfba6a4
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.183350

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921941onnx/unsafe0.183350onnx/nsfw0.118768onnx/nsfl0.064582
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 13:37 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

Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a music-themed buddy icon with handwritten text, stylized typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a microphone.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 13:37 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
11,182 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,975, response 1,085

Review tags

  • gray transparency background (background, 1.00)
  • beige background (color, 0.95)
  • text heavy animation (animation, 0.90)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.90)
  • microphone (object, 0.90)
  • black text (text, 0.90)
  • handwritten script (style, 0.85)
  • low resolution portrait (subject, 0.85)
  • digital noise (artifact, 0.80)
  • blocky typography (style, 0.80)
  • ink blot (artifact, 0.75)

Actions

  • holding microphone near mouth

Animation

  • frame 0: handwritten text with ink blot
  • frame 1: blocky 'I'M ON THE SOUND' text
  • frame 2: partial microphone portrait

Animation Summary

Three-frame animation cycles through handwritten text, blocky 'I'M ON THE SOUND' typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a white microphone against dark background.

Colors

  • beige
  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • dark brown

Composition

  • contact sheet layout
  • partial portrait framing
  • text-heavy top frames

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 contact sheet containing three sampled animation frames from an animated AIM buddy icon. The top-left frame shows black handwritten-style text on a light beige background with visible brush strokes and a small circular ink blot; the text appears to be 'The' followed by additional cursive characters. The top-right frame displays blocky, pixelated dark brown or black text reading 'I'M ON THE SOUND' in all caps across three lines against a textured beige backdrop. The bottom-left frame features a partial portrait of a person with long dark hair holding a white microphone near their mouth; the background is dark and indistinct, with visible digital noise and low-resolution artifacts. All frames are arranged on a gray transparency background typical of contact sheets. The animation appears to cycle through these three distinct visual states without motion blur or transitional effects between frames.

Description

Animated contact sheet showing three frames of a music-themed buddy icon with handwritten text, stylized typography, and a partial portrait of a person holding a microphone.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown artist | basis both | confidence low | evidence: microphone, music text

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • specific artist identity not visible in portrait
  • exact song title 'Killing me softly' not present in text

Metadata Only Entities

  • Killing me softly with his song (title)
  • myoldicons id 177517 (id)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text elements match general music theme
  • microphone implies musical performance

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro
  • music-themed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • handwritten text beige background ink blot
  • blocky I'M ON THE SOUND pixelated text
  • microphone held long dark hair low-res portrait

Objects

  • microphone
  • ink blot
  • text elements

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x2
  • sampled frame count 3 from source frame count 3
  • gray transparency background for contact sheet display

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest music artist context with 'Killing me softly with his song' title reference and 'myoldicons id 177517' category

Style

  • pixelated
  • handwritten script
  • blocky typography
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • person with long dark hair
  • microphone holder

Visible Text

  • The
  • I'M ON THE SOUND

Visually Supported Entities

  • music-themed icon
  • handwritten script logo
  • blocky typography design

Wordwall

  • handwritten text
  • beige background
  • ink blot
  • blocky pixelated text
  • I'M ON THE SOUND
  • microphone held by person
  • long dark hair
  • digital noise
  • low-resolution portrait
  • contact sheet layout
  • gray transparency background
  • textured backdrop
  • cursive script
  • all caps text
  • partial face visible
  • white microphone
  • dark background
  • brush stroke texture
  • 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 / assorted artists
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
106882.gif | 106882.gif Killing me softly with his song | animated | myoldicons id 177517
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:33 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