A contact sheet of 8 animated frames showing a pixel art scene with green armored creatures, red projectiles, and yellow running figures on a black background.

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A contact sheet of 8 animated frames showing a pixel art scene with green armored creatures, red projectiles, and yellow running figures on a black background.

A contact sheet of 8 animated frames showing a pixel art scene with green armored creatures, red projectiles, and yellow running figures on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Animation

  • frame-to-frame positional shifts of green creatures
  • progressive left-to-right movement of yellow figures
  • consistent creature shape with minor position changes between frames

Animation Summary

8-frame animation showing green armored creatures with red projectiles and yellow running figures moving left-to-right across black background; consistent creature shape with minor positional changes between frames

Composition

  • 3x3 contact sheet layout
  • multiple creatures and figures distributed across frame
  • central creature clusters with scattered elements

Dense Caption

The image displays an 8-frame contact sheet (arranged in 3x3 grid) containing sampled animation frames from a retro-style video game. Each frame shows a dark background populated by multiple green circular armored creatures with red spherical projectiles inside their transparent green outlines, and yellow stick-figure characters running left-to-right across the scene. The green creatures have three red spheres arranged in triangular formation within their bodies, while the yellow figures appear to be humanoids in motion with visible limbs extended as if sprinting. Small red cylindrical objects are scattered throughout the background among dark gray circular shapes that resemble pipes or obstacles. The animation sequence shows subtle positional changes between frames: the green creatures maintain consistent shape but shift slightly across frames, and the yellow running figures progress incrementally left-to-right while maintaining their running pose. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom right corner of the contact sheet, likely representing transparency background in the original icon rendering. All elements are rendered in a classic 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette (black, green, red, yellow) and blocky pixelated edges typical of early video game graphics.

Description

A contact sheet of 8 animated frames showing a pixel art scene with green armored creatures, red projectiles, and yellow running figures on a black background.

Fandoms

  • retro gaming fandom | basis both | confidence medium | evidence pixel art style matches retro game aesthetics

Identity Hypotheses

  • SamRunning | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence source hints mention 'SamRunning' but no visible text or character name in pixels
  • Metroid | basis metadata-only | confidence very low | evidence source mentions Metroid but visual elements don't match known Metroid characters/graphics

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 'SamRunning' name
  • 'Metroid' category
  • 'myoldicons id 206099' reference

Metadata Only Entities

  • SamRunning
  • Metroid
  • myoldicons id 206099

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 8-bit pixel art running figures green creatures red projectiles
  • retro game animation yellow stick figures black background
  • green armored creatures three red spheres 8-frame contact sheet

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • 8 sampled animation frames (indices 0-7)
  • gray rectangle in bottom right corner represents transparency background
  • review image size 768x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style action scene, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'SamRunning', 'Metroid', and 'myoldicons' categories; these may refer to the running character or game theme but are not visually confirmed by pixel evidence

Visually Supported Entities

  • retro video game graphics
  • 8-bit animation style

Wordwall

  • green armored creatures
  • red projectiles
  • yellow running figures
  • black background
  • 3x3 contact sheet
  • pixel art style
  • transparent green outlines
  • three red spheres per creature
  • small red cylindrical objects
  • dark gray circular obstacles
  • running stick figure pose
  • frame-to-frame positional changes
  • 8-bit graphics
  • blocky pixel edges
  • scattered projectiles
  • spherical red elements
  • yellow humanoid figures
  • green circular shapes
  • red cylindrical props
  • black void background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Guest Icons GIF Captures

Source title
SamRunning
Category
guesticons / guest icons 82 / samrunning
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 03:16 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / games / metroid
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:59 UTC

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Featured Category Portal Shard

Source title
Games icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / games / page11 / games icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 23:05 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
13142
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.9 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a53e27a41fcf10858e43d438870b152d1758cd6257cd396205df35ef365e92df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:08 UTC
Archive ID
a53e27a41fcf1085
SHA-256
a53e27a41fcf10858e43d438870b152d1758cd6257cd396205df35ef365e92df
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078792

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934051onnx/unsafe0.078792onnx/nsfw0.042572onnx/nsfl0.036221
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 00:48 UTC
Run
28
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 contact sheet of 8 animated frames showing a pixel art scene with green armored creatures, red projectiles, and yellow running figures on a black background.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 00:48 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
20,713 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,118, response 1,296

Review tags

  • black background (colors, 0.95)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • frame to frame movement (animation, 0.90)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.90)
  • red projectiles (objects, 0.90)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.90)
  • running figures (subjects, 0.90)
  • transparent green outlines (style, 0.85)
  • green armored creatures (subjects, 0.85)
  • yellow humanoid figures (subjects, 0.85)
  • red cylindrical objects (objects, 0.75)

Actions

  • running
  • projectile firing
  • frame-to-frame movement

Animation

  • frame-to-frame positional shifts of green creatures
  • progressive left-to-right movement of yellow figures
  • consistent creature shape with minor position changes between frames

Animation Summary

8-frame animation showing green armored creatures with red projectiles and yellow running figures moving left-to-right across black background; consistent creature shape with minor positional changes between frames

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • 3x3 contact sheet layout
  • multiple creatures and figures distributed across frame
  • central creature clusters with scattered elements

Dense Caption

The image displays an 8-frame contact sheet (arranged in 3x3 grid) containing sampled animation frames from a retro-style video game. Each frame shows a dark background populated by multiple green circular armored creatures with red spherical projectiles inside their transparent green outlines, and yellow stick-figure characters running left-to-right across the scene. The green creatures have three red spheres arranged in triangular formation within their bodies, while the yellow figures appear to be humanoids in motion with visible limbs extended as if sprinting. Small red cylindrical objects are scattered throughout the background among dark gray circular shapes that resemble pipes or obstacles. The animation sequence shows subtle positional changes between frames: the green creatures maintain consistent shape but shift slightly across frames, and the yellow running figures progress incrementally left-to-right while maintaining their running pose. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom right corner of the contact sheet, likely representing transparency background in the original icon rendering. All elements are rendered in a classic 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette (black, green, red, yellow) and blocky pixelated edges typical of early video game graphics.

Description

A contact sheet of 8 animated frames showing a pixel art scene with green armored creatures, red projectiles, and yellow running figures on a black background.

Fandoms

  • retro gaming fandom | basis both | confidence medium | evidence pixel art style matches retro game aesthetics

Identity Hypotheses

  • SamRunning | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence source hints mention 'SamRunning' but no visible text or character name in pixels
  • Metroid | basis metadata-only | confidence very low | evidence source mentions Metroid but visual elements don't match known Metroid characters/graphics

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 'SamRunning' name
  • 'Metroid' category
  • 'myoldicons id 206099' reference

Metadata Only Entities

  • SamRunning
  • Metroid
  • myoldicons id 206099

Mood

  • action-packed
  • dynamic
  • retro gaming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 8-bit pixel art running figures green creatures red projectiles
  • retro game animation yellow stick figures black background
  • green armored creatures three red spheres 8-frame contact sheet

Objects

  • red spherical projectiles
  • small red cylinders
  • dark gray circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3
  • 8 sampled animation frames (indices 0-7)
  • gray rectangle in bottom right corner represents transparency background
  • review image size 768x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style action scene, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'SamRunning', 'Metroid', and 'myoldicons' categories; these may refer to the running character or game theme but are not visually confirmed by pixel evidence

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro video game graphics
  • blocky rendering

Subjects

  • green armored creatures
  • yellow running figures

Visually Supported Entities

  • retro video game graphics
  • 8-bit animation style

Wordwall

  • green armored creatures
  • red projectiles
  • yellow running figures
  • black background
  • 3x3 contact sheet
  • pixel art style
  • transparent green outlines
  • three red spheres per creature
  • small red cylindrical objects
  • dark gray circular obstacles
  • running stick figure pose
  • frame-to-frame positional changes
  • 8-bit graphics
  • blocky pixel edges
  • scattered projectiles
  • spherical red elements
  • yellow humanoid figures
  • green circular shapes
  • red cylindrical props
  • black void background
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Full source records (4)

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Guest Icons GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-guesticons-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical user-submitted portal crawl
Category
guesticons / guest icons 82 / samrunning
Alt
SamRunning
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 03:16 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
OriginalIcons guest-icon folders with uploader/group names and user-submitted AIM identity material

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / games / metroid
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1100116910_1055380333.gif | metroid | animated | myoldicons id 206099
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:59 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

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Featured Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-featured-categories-portal)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / games / page11 / games icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Games icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
Metroid 3
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 23:05 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM icon portal spanning entertainment, fandom, personal identity, dolls, games, and animals

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
13142
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture