A 3x3 contact sheet of a Stephen Lynch animated icon showing nine sequential frames with distorted facial features and repeated text, arranged in a grid on a light background.

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A 3x3 contact sheet of a Stephen Lynch animated icon showing nine sequential frames with distorted facial features and repeated text, arranged in a grid on a light background.

A 3x3 contact sheet of a Stephen Lynch animated icon showing nine sequential frames with distorted facial features and repeated text, arranged in a grid on a light background. Ani…

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Animation

  • frame 0: profile view looking right with clear face
  • frame 1: front-facing neutral expression with slight distortion
  • frame 2: side profile looking left with visible pixelation
  • frame 3: increased blurring of facial features
  • frame 4: more severe pixelation and horizontal line artifacts
  • frame 5: partial face visibility with heavy distortion
  • frame 6: extreme distortion with minimal recognizable features
  • frame 7: near-complete visual degradation
  • frame 8: almost unrecognizable face with residual text

Animation Summary

Nine-frame animated sequence showing progressive facial distortion of a man with short dark hair, starting from clear profile views to near-complete visual degradation while maintaining bold black text "Stephen LYNCH" in lower-left quadrant.

Composition

  • 3x3 grid layout
  • consistent lighting across frames
  • text positioned in lower-left quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is a 768x768 pixel contact sheet displaying nine sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon arranged in a 3x3 grid. Each frame shows a stylized black-and-white portrait of a man with short dark hair against a pale yellowish background, exhibiting progressive distortion effects across the sequence. The leftmost column features three distinct facial expressions: top-left is profile view looking right, middle-left is front-facing neutral expression, bottom-left is side profile looking left. The central column shows increasing visual degradation with pixelation and blurring of facial features while maintaining a similar pose. The rightmost column displays further distortion including horizontal line artifacts and partial face visibility. Prominently displayed in the lower-left quadrant is bold black text reading "Stephen LYNCH" with "Steph" visible above it, suggesting repeated branding across frames. All frames share consistent lighting and composition but show progressive digital degradation effects typical of early internet animation artifacts. The image contains no color beyond grayscale tones except for a pale yellow background. Each frame appears to be part of an animated sequence showing facial distortion over time with the text remaining consistently visible in multiple positions.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of a Stephen Lynch animated icon showing nine sequential frames with distorted facial features and repeated text, arranged in a grid on a light background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Stephen Lynch | basis both | high confidence | visible text "Stephen LYNCH" and consistent branding across frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible musical instruments or performance context to confirm musician identity beyond text

Metadata Only Entities

  • Stephen Lynch (artist name)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text "Stephen LYNCH" matches source hint name
  • grayscale animation style consistent with early AIM era

Named Entities

  • Stephen Lynch

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stephen lynch animated icon
  • grayscale face distortion animation
  • pale yellow background text stephen lynch

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • sampled frame count 9
  • source frame count 9
  • gray transparency background not visible in contact sheet
  • review image size 768x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify as Stephen Lynch music artist icon with animated frames and MyOldIcons reference

Visible Text

  • Stephen
  • LYNCH
  • Steph

Visually Supported Entities

  • music artist icon (based on text)
  • early internet animation aesthetic

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait
  • short dark hair
  • pale yellow background
  • progressive facial distortion
  • pixelation effects
  • horizontal line artifacts
  • profile view looking right
  • front-facing neutral expression
  • side profile looking left
  • bold black text Stephen LYNCH
  • repeated branding
  • grayscale tones only
  • 9-frame contact sheet
  • 3x3 grid layout
  • digital degradation
  • lighting consistency
  • text partially visible above name
  • face visibility decreases across frames
  • animation sequence showing distortion
  • pale yellow background color

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / stephen lynch
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:19 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.3 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d1add519e5cf7b452df1e765455fb7e205d03ac17d474e484d116629353252bd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Archive ID
d1add519e5cf7b45
SHA-256
d1add519e5cf7b452df1e765455fb7e205d03ac17d474e484d116629353252bd
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122337

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932007onnx/unsafe0.122337onnx/nsfw0.078759onnx/nsfl0.043578
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 10:07 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 a Stephen Lynch animated icon showing nine sequential frames with distorted facial features and repeated text, arranged in a grid on a light background.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 10:07 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
11,802 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,006, response 1,251

Review tags

  • progressive facial distortion (animation, 0.95)
  • 3x3 grid layout (composition, 0.95)
  • black and white portrait (subject, 0.95)
  • short dark hair (subject, 0.95)
  • bold text stephen lynch (text, 0.95)
  • pale yellow background (color, 0.90)
  • grayscale animation (style, 0.90)
  • pixelation effects (style, 0.90)
  • digital degradation (animation, 0.85)
  • horizontal line artifacts (style, 0.85)
  • lighting consistency (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • facial distortion
  • progressive visual degradation

Animation

  • frame 0: profile view looking right with clear face
  • frame 1: front-facing neutral expression with slight distortion
  • frame 2: side profile looking left with visible pixelation
  • frame 3: increased blurring of facial features
  • frame 4: more severe pixelation and horizontal line artifacts
  • frame 5: partial face visibility with heavy distortion
  • frame 6: extreme distortion with minimal recognizable features
  • frame 7: near-complete visual degradation
  • frame 8: almost unrecognizable face with residual text

Animation Summary

Nine-frame animated sequence showing progressive facial distortion of a man with short dark hair, starting from clear profile views to near-complete visual degradation while maintaining bold black text "Stephen LYNCH" in lower-left quadrant.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pale yellow

Composition

  • 3x3 grid layout
  • consistent lighting across frames
  • text positioned in lower-left quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is a 768x768 pixel contact sheet displaying nine sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon arranged in a 3x3 grid. Each frame shows a stylized black-and-white portrait of a man with short dark hair against a pale yellowish background, exhibiting progressive distortion effects across the sequence. The leftmost column features three distinct facial expressions: top-left is profile view looking right, middle-left is front-facing neutral expression, bottom-left is side profile looking left. The central column shows increasing visual degradation with pixelation and blurring of facial features while maintaining a similar pose. The rightmost column displays further distortion including horizontal line artifacts and partial face visibility. Prominently displayed in the lower-left quadrant is bold black text reading "Stephen LYNCH" with "Steph" visible above it, suggesting repeated branding across frames. All frames share consistent lighting and composition but show progressive digital degradation effects typical of early internet animation artifacts. The image contains no color beyond grayscale tones except for a pale yellow background. Each frame appears to be part of an animated sequence showing facial distortion over time with the text remaining consistently visible in multiple positions.

Description

A 3x3 contact sheet of a Stephen Lynch animated icon showing nine sequential frames with distorted facial features and repeated text, arranged in a grid on a light background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Stephen Lynch | basis both | high confidence | visible text "Stephen LYNCH" and consistent branding across frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible musical instruments or performance context to confirm musician identity beyond text

Metadata Only Entities

  • Stephen Lynch (artist name)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text "Stephen LYNCH" matches source hint name
  • grayscale animation style consistent with early AIM era

Mood

  • distorted
  • progressive degradation
  • digital artifact mood

Named Entities

  • Stephen Lynch

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stephen lynch animated icon
  • grayscale face distortion animation
  • pale yellow background text stephen lynch

Objects

  • bold text "Stephen LYNCH"

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • sampled frame count 9
  • source frame count 9
  • gray transparency background not visible in contact sheet
  • review image size 768x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source hints identify as Stephen Lynch music artist icon with animated frames and MyOldIcons reference

Style

  • grayscale animation
  • pixelated art style
  • early internet aesthetic

Subjects

  • man with short dark hair

Visible Text

  • Stephen
  • LYNCH
  • Steph

Visually Supported Entities

  • music artist icon (based on text)
  • early internet animation aesthetic

Wordwall

  • black-and-white portrait
  • short dark hair
  • pale yellow background
  • progressive facial distortion
  • pixelation effects
  • horizontal line artifacts
  • profile view looking right
  • front-facing neutral expression
  • side profile looking left
  • bold black text Stephen LYNCH
  • repeated branding
  • grayscale tones only
  • 9-frame contact sheet
  • 3x3 grid layout
  • digital degradation
  • lighting consistency
  • text partially visible above name
  • face visibility decreases across frames
  • animation sequence showing distortion
  • pale yellow background color
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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 / stephen lynch
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1105401270_1285826052.gif | sonicblew1988 stephen lynch | animated | myoldicons id 172955
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:19 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