A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon split into two frames showing a person's face on the left and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on the right against a dark background.

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A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon split into two frames showing a person's face on the left and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on the right against a dark background.

A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon split into two frames showing a person's face on the left and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on the right against a dark background. An…

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Animation

  • frame 0: person face with sunglasses
  • frame 1: text "Original Icons .com" on dark green background

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation switching between a pixelated person face wearing sunglasses and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on dark green background

Composition

  • split frame layout
  • left-right division
  • no border between frames

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet of two sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. On the left frame, there is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of a person with light skin tone wearing sunglasses, showing only part of their face and upper body against a black background. The right frame displays bright green text reading "Original Icons .com" in a stylized font on a solid dark green background. Both frames are 50x50 pixels each within the contact sheet layout. The animation appears to switch between these two distinct visual states without intermediate motion blur or transitional effects visible in the sampled frames. The image quality is highly pixelated due to low resolution and compression artifacts typical of early internet graphics.

Description

A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon split into two frames showing a person's face on the left and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on the right against a dark background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • person | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: generic human face with sunglasses, no specific identity clues
  • Original Icons .com | basis visible | confidence 1.0 | evidence: exact text on right frame

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Backstreet Boys connection suggested by source hints but no band-specific imagery present in the icon frames
  • "myoldicons" name matches the website text but does not confirm any specific branding beyond what's visible

Metadata Only Entities

  • Backstreet Boys
  • music artists category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Original Icons .com" text is clearly visible on right frame

Named Entities

  • Original Icons .com | basis visible

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • original icons com buddy icon
  • pixelated person sunglasses animation
  • green text original icons com

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains two sampled frames (indices 0 and 1)
  • total review image size is 512x256 pixels
  • frames arranged in 2x1 layout
  • gray transparency background not visible as content
  • source frame count: 2, sampled frame count: 2

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols; generic cartoon-style face with sunglasses is safe

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest Backstreet Boys connection but no band members or related imagery visible
  • source hints mention "myoldicons" and "Original Icons API" which matches the text in the image
  • source hints reference "music artists" category but visual evidence shows only generic person face with sunglasses, not specific artist identification

Visible Text

  • Original Icons .com

Visually Supported Entities

  • Original Icons .com logo
  • generic person face avatar

Wordwall

  • pixelated person face
  • sunglasses on face
  • light skin tone
  • black background
  • green text
  • Original Icons .com
  • stylized font
  • dark green background
  • 50x50 pixels
  • contact sheet layout
  • two frames
  • left frame content
  • right frame content
  • low-resolution animation
  • pixelation artifacts
  • text-only frame
  • face-only frame
  • stencil-style lettering
  • no motion blur between frames

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / backstreet boys
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:09 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab825cb7e6226fe7a151a5853203104d0d221bd2b40483855c1568da4f55ccf0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Archive ID
ab825cb7e6226fe7
SHA-256
ab825cb7e6226fe7a151a5853203104d0d221bd2b40483855c1568da4f55ccf0
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:21 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.270685

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.875083onnx/unsafe0.270685onnx/nsfw0.195750onnx/nsfl0.074935
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 08:34 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 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon split into two frames showing a person's face on the left and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on the right against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 08:34 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
10,262 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,015, response 1,124

Review tags

  • contact sheet (composition, 1.00)
  • original icons com text (text, 1.00)
  • animation (medium, 0.95)
  • low resolution (quality, 0.95)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.90)
  • pixel art (style, 0.90)
  • green background (color, 0.85)
  • person face (subject, 0.85)
  • stencil lettering (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • frame 0: person face with sunglasses
  • frame 1: text "Original Icons .com" on dark green background

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation switching between a pixelated person face wearing sunglasses and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on dark green background

Colors

  • black
  • dark green
  • bright green
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • split frame layout
  • left-right division
  • no border between frames

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet of two sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. On the left frame, there is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of a person with light skin tone wearing sunglasses, showing only part of their face and upper body against a black background. The right frame displays bright green text reading "Original Icons .com" in a stylized font on a solid dark green background. Both frames are 50x50 pixels each within the contact sheet layout. The animation appears to switch between these two distinct visual states without intermediate motion blur or transitional effects visible in the sampled frames. The image quality is highly pixelated due to low resolution and compression artifacts typical of early internet graphics.

Description

A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon split into two frames showing a person's face on the left and green text reading "Original Icons .com" on the right against a dark background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • person | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: generic human face with sunglasses, no specific identity clues
  • Original Icons .com | basis visible | confidence 1.0 | evidence: exact text on right frame

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Backstreet Boys connection suggested by source hints but no band-specific imagery present in the icon frames
  • "myoldicons" name matches the website text but does not confirm any specific branding beyond what's visible

Metadata Only Entities

  • Backstreet Boys
  • music artists category

Metadata Supported By Image

  • "Original Icons .com" text is clearly visible on right frame

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Original Icons .com | basis visible

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • original icons com buddy icon
  • pixelated person sunglasses animation
  • green text original icons com

Objects

  • sunglasses
  • green text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains two sampled frames (indices 0 and 1)
  • total review image size is 512x256 pixels
  • frames arranged in 2x1 layout
  • gray transparency background not visible as content
  • source frame count: 2, sampled frame count: 2

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols; generic cartoon-style face with sunglasses is safe

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints suggest Backstreet Boys connection but no band members or related imagery visible
  • source hints mention "myoldicons" and "Original Icons API" which matches the text in the image
  • source hints reference "music artists" category but visual evidence shows only generic person face with sunglasses, not specific artist identification

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • stencil-style lettering

Subjects

  • person with sunglasses

Visible Text

  • Original Icons .com

Visually Supported Entities

  • Original Icons .com logo
  • generic person face avatar

Wordwall

  • pixelated person face
  • sunglasses on face
  • light skin tone
  • black background
  • green text
  • Original Icons .com
  • stylized font
  • dark green background
  • 50x50 pixels
  • contact sheet layout
  • two frames
  • left frame content
  • right frame content
  • low-resolution animation
  • pixelation artifacts
  • text-only frame
  • face-only frame
  • stencil-style lettering
  • no motion blur between frames
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 / backstreet boys
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1097842289_1715590294.gif | backstreet boys | animated | myoldicons id 170602
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:09 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