A 3x3 contact sheet of animated frames showing a text-based icon with changing letter 'E' in "BLACKEST" against an orange-red gradient background.

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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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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

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

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

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

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)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911247onnx/unsafe0.093432onnx/nsfw0.057668onnx/nsfl0.035765
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
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

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

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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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