Permanent icon record
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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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)
- 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
- 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
Enrichment records (1)
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
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 / 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
Original: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Music%20Artists/Stephen%20Lynch/1105401270_1285826052.gif Download: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Music%20Artists/Stephen%20Lynch/1105401270_1285826052.gif Page: https://myoldicons.com/api/icons?category=music_artists