The image is at artifacts/image.png: a 1024 × 1024 PNG (8-bit RGB, about 2.0 MB), made in one generation with the gpt-image-2 image tool.

It shows Pepe as a god, sitting on a hovering throne. He has glowing cyan eyes, a golden halo with light rays, and white-and-gold robes with neon circuit patterns. Behind him is a rainy neon city at night with magenta and cyan holographic billboards and flying cars. It's drawn in a 16-bit pixel-art style.

ffprobe wouldn't start on this machine, so I confirmed the format and size by reading the PNG header directly. I also looked at the image myself; nobody else has reviewed it.

What doesn't fully meet the brief: the pixel effect is drawn by the model, not snapped to a real low-resolution grid. The pixel blocks aren't perfectly even, and some gradients are smoother than true pixel art would be.

I wrote a short README.md that records the size, format and this limitation, and committed it. Git had no author identity set up, so I made that commit under your name and email (mitjet, mitjet@pm.me) for that one command only; I didn't change the git config. As required, the image itself is left out of the commit.