A contact sheet of 18 animated frames showing a pixel art icon with two distinct text phases: 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and 'I RUN INTO WALLS', each displayed on a yellow star background.

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A contact sheet of 18 animated frames showing a pixel art icon with two distinct text phases: 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and 'I RUN INTO WALLS', each displayed on a yellow star background.

A contact sheet of 18 animated frames showing a pixel art icon with two distinct text phases: 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and 'I RUN INTO WALLS', each displayed on a yellow sta…

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Animation

  • frame-to-frame color variations in star outline and shading
  • text phase transition from 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' to 'I RUN INTO WALLS'

Animation Summary

The animation consists of two distinct text phases displayed on a yellow star background, with the first ten frames showing 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and the last eight showing 'I RUN INTO WALLS', featuring subtle frame-to-frame variations in star shading and outline thickness.

Composition

  • central yellow star on white background
  • text centered within star area

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet containing 18 individual frames arranged in a 5x4 grid (with the bottom-right cell empty), showing an animated pixel art icon. Each frame features a central yellow star shape with black outlines against a white background, and some frames have gray transparency backgrounds visible around the edges. The animation consists of two distinct phases: the first ten frames display the text 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' in bold blocky letters (with 'DON'T' in black on yellow, 'FOLLOW' in yellow on black, 'IN MY' in white on black, and 'FOOTSTEPS' in black on yellow), while the last eight frames show the text 'I RUN INTO WALLS' using a similar color scheme ('I RUN' in black on yellow, 'INTO' in yellow on black, 'WALLS' in white on black). The star shape remains consistent across all frames with subtle variations in shading and outline thickness between some frames. All text uses a retro pixelated font style typical of early internet graphics. The animation appears to be static except for minor frame-to-frame differences in the star's appearance and text rendering, suggesting simple frame-by-frame animation rather than smooth motion.

Description

A contact sheet of 18 animated frames showing a pixel art icon with two distinct text phases: 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and 'I RUN INTO WALLS', each displayed on a yellow star background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown | basis both | confidence low | evidence: pixel art style matches early AIM era graphics

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: emotions / happy does not match ironic text content
  • source hints do not specify exact icon name or fandom

Metadata Only Entities

  • myoldicons id 156482
  • MyOldIcons OriginalIcons API

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text phase transition matches humorous tone of 'best friends are always true'
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM era graphics

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star pixel art icon
  • 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' text
  • 'I RUN INTO WALLS' text
  • AIM buddy icon animation
  • retro internet graphics
  • pixelated blocky text
  • early AIM era icon
  • humorous text transition
  • 5x4 contact sheet frame set

Objects

  • star symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x4 with 18 visible frames (bottom-right cell empty)
  • gray transparency background edges visible around some frames
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count of 18

Safety Notes

  • text contains ironic humor but no explicit content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest 'MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API', 'happy' category, and 'myoldicons id 156482'
  • non-authoritative title mentions 'best friends are always true'

Visible Text

  • DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS
  • I RUN INTO WALLS

Visually Supported Entities

  • early internet culture
  • AIM buddy icons

Wordwall

  • yellow star background
  • black outlined yellow star
  • pixel art icon
  • retro blocky text
  • 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' text
  • 'I RUN INTO WALLS' text
  • white background
  • gray transparency edges
  • 5x4 contact sheet grid
  • 18 frames total
  • frame-to-frame color variations
  • text in black-yellow-white scheme
  • blocky pixel font
  • star shape consistent across frames
  • text phase transition from footstep to wall
  • no visible characters or figures
  • simple animation loop
  • pixelated text rendering
  • black outlines on star
  • white space between text lines

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / emotions / happy
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:28 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (18 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a88917912f581b92c4731a10dace4bf048d8130d67837ff549e06c473c2a5190.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:10 UTC
Archive ID
a88917912f581b92
SHA-256
a88917912f581b92c4731a10dace4bf048d8130d67837ff549e06c473c2a5190
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
0.089508

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926009onnx/unsafe0.089508onnx/nsfw0.053360onnx/nsfl0.036148
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
28
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 contact sheet of 18 animated frames showing a pixel art icon with two distinct text phases: 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and 'I RUN INTO WALLS', each displayed on a yellow star background.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
22,598 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,291, response 1,322

Review tags

  • 5x4 contact sheet grid (layout, 1.00)
  • don t follow in my footsteps text (text, 1.00)
  • i run into walls text (text, 1.00)
  • blocky pixel font (style, 0.95)
  • humorous text content (mood, 0.90)
  • retro internet graphics (style, 0.90)
  • yellow star background (subject, 0.90)
  • text phase transition (animation, 0.85)
  • gray transparency edges (composition, 0.80)

Actions

  • text phase transition

Animation

  • frame-to-frame color variations in star outline and shading
  • text phase transition from 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' to 'I RUN INTO WALLS'

Animation Summary

The animation consists of two distinct text phases displayed on a yellow star background, with the first ten frames showing 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and the last eight showing 'I RUN INTO WALLS', featuring subtle frame-to-frame variations in star shading and outline thickness.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central yellow star on white background
  • text centered within star area

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet containing 18 individual frames arranged in a 5x4 grid (with the bottom-right cell empty), showing an animated pixel art icon. Each frame features a central yellow star shape with black outlines against a white background, and some frames have gray transparency backgrounds visible around the edges. The animation consists of two distinct phases: the first ten frames display the text 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' in bold blocky letters (with 'DON'T' in black on yellow, 'FOLLOW' in yellow on black, 'IN MY' in white on black, and 'FOOTSTEPS' in black on yellow), while the last eight frames show the text 'I RUN INTO WALLS' using a similar color scheme ('I RUN' in black on yellow, 'INTO' in yellow on black, 'WALLS' in white on black). The star shape remains consistent across all frames with subtle variations in shading and outline thickness between some frames. All text uses a retro pixelated font style typical of early internet graphics. The animation appears to be static except for minor frame-to-frame differences in the star's appearance and text rendering, suggesting simple frame-by-frame animation rather than smooth motion.

Description

A contact sheet of 18 animated frames showing a pixel art icon with two distinct text phases: 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' and 'I RUN INTO WALLS', each displayed on a yellow star background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown | basis both | confidence low | evidence: pixel art style matches early AIM era graphics

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: emotions / happy does not match ironic text content
  • source hints do not specify exact icon name or fandom

Metadata Only Entities

  • myoldicons id 156482
  • MyOldIcons OriginalIcons API

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text phase transition matches humorous tone of 'best friends are always true'
  • pixel art style consistent with early AIM era graphics

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous
  • ironic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star pixel art icon
  • 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' text
  • 'I RUN INTO WALLS' text
  • AIM buddy icon animation
  • retro internet graphics
  • pixelated blocky text
  • early AIM era icon
  • humorous text transition
  • 5x4 contact sheet frame set

Objects

  • star symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x4 with 18 visible frames (bottom-right cell empty)
  • gray transparency background edges visible around some frames
  • sampled frame count matches source frame count of 18

Safety Notes

  • text contains ironic humor but no explicit content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest 'MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API', 'happy' category, and 'myoldicons id 156482'
  • non-authoritative title mentions 'best friends are always true'

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro internet graphics
  • blocky text style

Subjects

  • yellow star shape

Visible Text

  • DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS
  • I RUN INTO WALLS

Visually Supported Entities

  • early internet culture
  • AIM buddy icons

Wordwall

  • yellow star background
  • black outlined yellow star
  • pixel art icon
  • retro blocky text
  • 'DON'T FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS' text
  • 'I RUN INTO WALLS' text
  • white background
  • gray transparency edges
  • 5x4 contact sheet grid
  • 18 frames total
  • frame-to-frame color variations
  • text in black-yellow-white scheme
  • blocky pixel font
  • star shape consistent across frames
  • text phase transition from footstep to wall
  • no visible characters or figures
  • simple animation loop
  • pixelated text rendering
  • black outlines on star
  • white space between text lines
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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 / emotions / happy
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1105655663_1042076577.gif | kitkatkate878 best friends are always true | animated | myoldicons id 156482
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:28 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