A 5x5 contact sheet of animated frames showing a stone-textured background with red heart symbols and changing text labels including "Love," "Death," and "The Used."

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A 5x5 contact sheet of animated frames showing a stone-textured background with red heart symbols and changing text labels including "Love," "Death," and "The Used."

A 5x5 contact sheet of animated frames showing a stone-textured background with red heart symbols and changing text labels including "Love," "Death," and "The Used.". Animated 48×…

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Animation

  • text changes between frames: Love → Death → The Used

Animation Summary

A 25-frame contact sheet showing a static stone background with red heart symbol while the central text cycles through "Love," "Death," and "The Used" with individual letters highlighted in red across frames.

Composition

  • 5x5 grid layout
  • individual frame borders
  • central text placement

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a textured, light gray stone-like background with a small red heart symbol positioned near the right edge. The central area contains text that changes across frames: some show "Love" in black letters with one letter highlighted in red (typically the 'L'), others display "Death" with similar highlighting on the 'D', and several present "The Used" with the 'U' or 's' highlighted in red. All text uses a bold, pixelated font typical of early 2000s digital interfaces. The heart symbol remains static across all frames while only the text content changes between sampled animation states. Each frame is bordered by thin white lines creating individual cell divisions within the contact sheet layout. The overall visual style matches classic AIM buddy icon aesthetics with limited color palette and low-resolution pixel art rendering.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of animated frames showing a stone-textured background with red heart symbols and changing text labels including "Love," "Death," and "The Used."

Identity Hypotheses

  • The Used | basis both | confidence high | evidence: exact match of 'The Used' text in multiple frames
  • Love and Death | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence: word 'Love' and 'Death' appear as text labels

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visual evidence of 'death' theme beyond the word 'Death'
  • no visible connection to specific band members or album art

Metadata Only Entities

  • Love and Death (from title but not visually represented)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text labels match 'The Used' band name
  • red heart symbol could represent 'love' concept from source hints

Named Entities

  • The Used

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the used band icon
  • love death text animation
  • red heart stone background
  • buddy icon love death the used
  • pixel art animated text icon

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet contains 25 sampled animation frames from a larger source animation (33 total frames), arranged in 5x5 grid, each frame bordered by white lines on gray transparency background

Safety Notes

text contains non-explicit words 'Love' and 'Death' but no sexual or violent imagery; heart symbol is cartoonish and not suggestive of NSFW content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative hints suggest 'The Used' band connection and 'Love and Death' theme; some hints reference 'iconhell_plex75_in_love_and_death' but the image itself shows only text changes without explicit love/death imagery beyond the words themselves

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Love
  • Death
  • The Used

Visually Supported Entities

  • band name The Used (via text)
  • heart symbol as love representation

Wordwall

  • stone background
  • red heart symbol
  • text changing across frames
  • Love text
  • Death text
  • The Used text
  • black bold font
  • red letter highlighting
  • pixelated text
  • static heart
  • gray stone texture
  • white border lines
  • 5x5 contact sheet
  • frame-by-frame animation
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • buddy icon style
  • text-only animation
  • highlighted letters
  • animated text frames
  • stone-like surface

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / used, the
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:32 UTC

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_plex75_in_love_and_death
Category
IconHell/Music
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:54 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (33 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/f2/f28283e89b3b3797684b9b863f260117bf725f29e9bc394e73c20ae4b6a2ef23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
Archive ID
f28283e89b3b3797
SHA-256
f28283e89b3b3797684b9b863f260117bf725f29e9bc394e73c20ae4b6a2ef23
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
72
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000589

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000589falseself-harm0.000577falseself-harm/intent0.000247falseself-harm/instructions0.000214falseviolence/graphic0.000069falsesexual0.000028falseharassment0.000023falseillicit0.000010falseharassment/threatening0.000009falsehate0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/violence1.000000textenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 01:08 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090791

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916610onnx/unsafe0.090791onnx/nsfw0.055782onnx/nsfl0.035008
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 13:29 UTC
Run
30
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.900000

OpenAI category scores

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

A 5x5 contact sheet of animated frames showing a stone-textured background with red heart symbols and changing text labels including "Love," "Death," and "The Used."

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 13:29 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
12,243 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,696, response 1,167

Review tags

  • buddy icon animation (medium, 0.95)
  • red heart symbol (object, 0.95)
  • stone background (subject, 0.95)
  • text changing frames (animation, 0.90)
  • gray stone texture (background, 0.90)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • red letter highlighting (visual effect, 0.90)
  • the used band name (entity, 0.85)
  • low resolution pixel art (style, 0.85)
  • love death the used text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changing between frames

Animation

  • text changes between frames: Love → Death → The Used

Animation Summary

A 25-frame contact sheet showing a static stone background with red heart symbol while the central text cycles through "Love," "Death," and "The Used" with individual letters highlighted in red across frames.

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • 5x5 grid layout
  • individual frame borders
  • central text placement

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of sampled animation frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a textured, light gray stone-like background with a small red heart symbol positioned near the right edge. The central area contains text that changes across frames: some show "Love" in black letters with one letter highlighted in red (typically the 'L'), others display "Death" with similar highlighting on the 'D', and several present "The Used" with the 'U' or 's' highlighted in red. All text uses a bold, pixelated font typical of early 2000s digital interfaces. The heart symbol remains static across all frames while only the text content changes between sampled animation states. Each frame is bordered by thin white lines creating individual cell divisions within the contact sheet layout. The overall visual style matches classic AIM buddy icon aesthetics with limited color palette and low-resolution pixel art rendering.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of animated frames showing a stone-textured background with red heart symbols and changing text labels including "Love," "Death," and "The Used."

Identity Hypotheses

  • The Used | basis both | confidence high | evidence: exact match of 'The Used' text in multiple frames
  • Love and Death | basis metadata-compatible | confidence medium | evidence: word 'Love' and 'Death' appear as text labels

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visual evidence of 'death' theme beyond the word 'Death'
  • no visible connection to specific band members or album art

Metadata Only Entities

  • Love and Death (from title but not visually represented)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text labels match 'The Used' band name
  • red heart symbol could represent 'love' concept from source hints

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful with dark theme

Named Entities

  • The Used

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the used band icon
  • love death text animation
  • red heart stone background
  • buddy icon love death the used
  • pixel art animated text icon

Objects

  • red heart symbol
  • black text
  • gray stone background

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet contains 25 sampled animation frames from a larger source animation (33 total frames), arranged in 5x5 grid, each frame bordered by white lines on gray transparency background

Safety Notes

text contains non-explicit words 'Love' and 'Death' but no sexual or violent imagery; heart symbol is cartoonish and not suggestive of NSFW content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative hints suggest 'The Used' band connection and 'Love and Death' theme; some hints reference 'iconhell_plex75_in_love_and_death' but the image itself shows only text changes without explicit love/death imagery beyond the words themselves

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon style

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text labels

Visible Text

  • Love
  • Death
  • The Used

Visually Supported Entities

  • band name The Used (via text)
  • heart symbol as love representation

Wordwall

  • stone background
  • red heart symbol
  • text changing across frames
  • Love text
  • Death text
  • The Used text
  • black bold font
  • red letter highlighting
  • pixelated text
  • static heart
  • gray stone texture
  • white border lines
  • 5x5 contact sheet
  • frame-by-frame animation
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • buddy icon style
  • text-only animation
  • highlighted letters
  • animated text frames
  • stone-like surface
Raw JSON
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Source semantic tags (12)
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Full source records (2)

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / used, the
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1122844201_2045877328.gif | minime343 The Used | animated | myoldicons id 177341
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:32 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

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/Music
Title
iconhell_plex75_in_love_and_death
Archive entry
IconHell/Music/iconhell_plex75_in_love_and_death.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:54 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture