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Yellow retro TV with two antennas on black background; screen displays question mark, hash symbol, double exclamation marks, and asterisk in sequence.

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Yellow retro TV with two antennas on black background; screen displays question mark, hash symbol, double exclamation marks, and asterisk in sequence.

Yellow retro TV with two antennas on black background; screen displays question mark, hash symbol, double exclamation marks, and asterisk in sequence. Animated 56×71 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • screen symbols cycle through four distinct states: question mark → hash symbol → double exclamation marks → asterisk

Animation Summary

  • Screen symbols cycle through four distinct states: question mark → hash symbol → double exclamation marks → asterisk.

Composition

  • vertical arrangement
  • four identical TVs stacked
  • symbols change per TV

Dense Caption

Black background features four yellow retro television icons arranged vertically. Each TV has two angled antennas and a white screen displaying distinct symbols: top icon shows a question mark with small wavy lines above it; second icon shows a hash symbol with two separate wavy line pairs above it; third icon shows double exclamation marks with larger wavy lines above it; fourth icon shows an asterisk with smaller wavy lines above it. All TVs share identical yellow frame and antenna design.

Description

Yellow retro TV with two antennas on black background; screen displays question mark, hash symbol, double exclamation marks, and asterisk in sequence.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: actors
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow retro TV with antennas
  • black background screen symbols
  • question mark hash exclamation asterisk animation

Objects

  • question mark

Wordwall

  • yellow retro TV
  • two antennas
  • black background
  • question mark screen
  • hash symbol screen
  • double exclamation marks screen
  • asterisk screen
  • wavy line pairs

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:15 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
56×71 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:15 UTC
Archive ID
29d30cd321a9aeaf
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Yellow retro TV with two antennas on black background; screen displays question mark, hash symbol, double exclamation marks, and asterisk in sequence.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,284 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 699

Review tags

  • symbol change (action, 0.80)
  • asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • exclamation marks (object, 0.80)
  • hash symbol (object, 0.80)
  • question mark (object, 0.80)
  • wavy lines (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • antenna (subject, 0.80)
  • screen symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • television icon (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol change

Animation

  • screen symbols cycle through four distinct states: question mark → hash symbol → double exclamation marks → asterisk

Animation Summary

  • Screen symbols cycle through four distinct states: question mark → hash symbol → double exclamation marks → asterisk.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical arrangement
  • four identical TVs stacked
  • symbols change per TV

Dense Caption

Black background features four yellow retro television icons arranged vertically. Each TV has two angled antennas and a white screen displaying distinct symbols: top icon shows a question mark with small wavy lines above it; second icon shows a hash symbol with two separate wavy line pairs above it; third icon shows double exclamation marks with larger wavy lines above it; fourth icon shows an asterisk with smaller wavy lines above it. All TVs share identical yellow frame and antenna design.

Description

Yellow retro TV with two antennas on black background; screen displays question mark, hash symbol, double exclamation marks, and asterisk in sequence.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: actors
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow retro TV with antennas
  • black background screen symbols
  • question mark hash exclamation asterisk animation

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  • question mark
  • hash symbol
  • exclamation marks
  • asterisk
  • wavy lines

Style

  • retro
  • pixelated
  • minimalist

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  • television icon
  • antenna
  • screen symbol

Wordwall

  • yellow retro TV
  • two antennas
  • black background
  • question mark screen
  • hash symbol screen
  • double exclamation marks screen
  • asterisk screen
  • wavy line pairs
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:40 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Full source records (1)
GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-tv-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:15 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities television buddy-icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/LTHBVVNCC5KJAH5JWEA76BJXIUR73JQK.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/LTHBVVNCC5KJAH5JWEA76BJXIUR73JQK.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027121902/http://geocities.com/mingwai_lucky/useful_links.htm