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A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a text-based icon with changing letter 'E' in "BLACKEST" against an orange-red gradient background.
A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a text-based icon with changing letter 'E' in "BLACKEST" against an orange-red gradient background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…
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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 / story of the year
- Era
- Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 09:33 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 3.7 KB
- Motion
- Animated (9 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/bc/bcce28fcedb7547612e13828031b4f4d1992bb46bed25f32e288be99875c53d4.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
- Archive ID
- bcce28fcedb75476
- SHA-256
- bcce28fcedb7547612e13828031b4f4d1992bb46bed25f32e288be99875c53d4
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.093432
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 13, 2026 at 13:40 UTC
- Run
- 30
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a text-based icon with changing letter 'E' in "BLACKEST" against an orange-red gradient background.
- Reviewed
- July 13, 2026 at 13:40 UTC
- Run
- 30
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 10,233 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,981, response 1,050
Review tags
- text only icon (subject, 0.95)
- orange red gradient (colors, 0.90)
- 3x3 frame grid (composition, 0.90)
- pixelated font (style, 0.90)
- song title reference (subject, 0.90)
- glitch effect (animation, 0.85)
- retro digital art (style, 0.85)
- melancholic mood (mood, 0.75)
Animation
- frame-to-frame change: black pixels replace 'E' in "BLACKEST" moving left-to-right across frames
Animation Summary
- 9-frame animation showing sequential black pixel replacement on 'E' in "BLACKEST" across 3x3 grid
Colors
- white
- orange
- red
- black
Composition
- centered text on gradient background, 3x3 frame grid layout
Dense Caption
The image displays a 3x3 grid of identical-sized animation frames arranged as a contact sheet. Each frame contains the same white pixelated text on an orange-red gradient background resembling flames or smoke. The text reads: THE STARS WILL CRY, THE BLACKEST TEARS TONIGHT. In each row, one instance of "BLACKEST" has its third letter 'E' replaced with black pixels (a glitch effect), moving left-to-right across the grid from top-left to bottom-right. The background shows subtle horizontal texture variations between frames but no other visible elements or characters. All text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics. Each frame measures 48x48 pixels with consistent spacing and alignment within the contact sheet layout.
Description
A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a text-based icon with changing letter 'E' in "BLACKEST" against an orange-red gradient background.
Identity Hypotheses
- Story of the Year | basis both | confidence high | evidence: matching song title and metadata hint
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- artist name not visible in image
- song title partially confirmed by text but no explicit artist reference
Metadata Only Entities
- Story of the Year
- MyOldIcons collection 177581
Metadata Supported By Image
- text content matches source hint title
Mood
- melancholic
Named Entities
- The Stars Will Cry (song) | basis visible|both
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- the stars will cry the blackest tears tonight
- pixelated text buddy icon
- glitch effect on 'E' in BLACKEST
- retro digital animation frame grid
Preprocessing Notes
contact sheet with 9 sampled frames (3x3 layout), gray transparency background not visible in this contact sheet rendering, each frame is 48x48 pixels
Safety Notes
- text contains melancholic lyrics but no explicit content or unsafe language
Source Metadata Interpretation
source hints suggest music artist Story of the Year and song "The Stars Will Cry"; metadata indicates it's from MyOldIcons collection with ID 177581
Style
- retro digital pixel art
Visible Text
- THE STARS WILL CRY
- THE BLACKEST TEARS TONIGHT
Wordwall
- white pixelated text
- orange-red gradient background
- flame-like texture
- THE STARS WILL CRY
- THE BLACKEST TEARS TONIGHT
- glitch effect on 'E'
- moving blacked-out letter
- 3x3 frame grid
- retro digital font
- blocky text rendering
- text-only icon
- no visible characters or objects
- consistent spacing between frames
- horizontal background texture variations
- frame-to-frame animation change
- black pixel replacement
- identical text content per frame
- glitch effect on 'BLACKEST'
- orange-red color scheme
- pixelated letter 'E' glitch
Raw JSON
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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 / story of the year
- Title
- MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
- Alt
- 117639.gif | 117639.gif The stars will cry the blackest tears tonight | animated | myoldicons id 177581
- 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
Original: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Music%20Artists/Story%20Of%20The%20Year/117639.gif Download: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Music%20Artists/Story%20Of%20The%20Year/117639.gif Page: https://myoldicons.com/api/icons?category=music_artists