A 4x3 contact sheet of a cartoon character's animated expression sequence with visible pixelation and dithering on a gray background.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of a cartoon character's animated expression sequence with visible pixelation and dithering on a gray background.

A 4x3 contact sheet of a cartoon character's animated expression sequence with visible pixelation and dithering on a gray background. Animated 42×42 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCit…

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Animation

  • facial expression changes between frames
  • head tilt variation
  • mouth shape differences
  • eye position shifts

Animation Summary

10-frame animation showing sequential changes in the character's facial expressions including smiling, neutral face, open mouth, and surprised look with slight head tilt variations between adjacent frames.

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • consistent character framing
  • no text elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of sampled frames from an animated icon, each frame showing the same cartoon character in various expressions. The character has light skin, brown hair, and wears a yellow shirt with red trim under blue sleeves. Facial features include black eyes, a small nose, and mouth shapes varying across frames: smiling, neutral, open-mouthed, and surprised. Each frame shows slight variations in head tilt and eye shape between adjacent frames. The background is solid gray with scattered white pixel noise typical of low-resolution GIFs from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Pixelation and dithering are visible throughout due to limited color palette and compression artifacts common in early internet animations. The character's pose remains consistent across frames, with only facial expressions changing. No text is present on any frame. Each icon measures approximately 42x42 pixels as indicated by the source metadata.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of a cartoon character's animated expression sequence with visible pixelation and dithering on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

unknown cartoon character | basis both | confidence low | evidence: consistent facial features across frames, yellow shirt with red trim, blue sleeves

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text or branding to confirm specific character name/fandom
  • category labels not supported by visual evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • search/gifs/cartoon/movie/instant-messenger/buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • late 90s cartoon animation icon
  • yellow shirt blue sleeves pixel art
  • gray background dithering expression sequence

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 12 sampled frames (4 columns x 3 rows)
  • gray background with white pixel noise
  • source frame count: 10, sampled frame count: 10
  • review image pixels: 1024x768

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • cartoon character style is non-explicit
  • no sexual references in visual elements

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'GifCities' and various categories like search/gifs/cartoon/movie/instant-messenger/buddy icons

Style

  • dithering effect

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character animation style from late 90s/early 2000s internet culture

Wordwall

  • cartoon character
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • yellow shirt
  • red trim
  • blue sleeves
  • black eyes
  • small nose
  • smiling mouth
  • neutral expression
  • open-mouthed face
  • surprised look
  • head tilt variation
  • pixelated animation
  • dithering effect
  • gray background
  • white pixel noise
  • 42x42 pixels
  • late 90s style
  • low-resolution gif

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 05:35 UTC

GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:08 UTC

GifCities Cartoon Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Cartoon Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:14 UTC

GifCities Movie Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Movie Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:22 UTC

GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:40 UTC

GifCities Buddy Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy Icon Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:55 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
42×42 pixels
File size
8 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5fd97ba83fae91562d7e3cdfe6031d1c2aa8e89a2f1c0fd1c53a35ce1adeba7c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Archive ID
5fd97ba83fae9156
SHA-256
5fd97ba83fae91562d7e3cdfe6031d1c2aa8e89a2f1c0fd1c53a35ce1adeba7c
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127678

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921423onnx/unsafe0.127678onnx/nsfw0.095343onnx/nsfl0.032334
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 07:42 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 4x3 contact sheet of a cartoon character's animated expression sequence with visible pixelation and dithering on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
13,874 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,028, response 1,278

Review tags

  • gray background (background, 0.95)
  • blue sleeves (clothing, 0.95)
  • yellow shirt (clothing, 0.95)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.95)
  • facial expression changes (animation, 0.90)
  • dithering effect (rendering, 0.90)
  • pixelated animation (style, 0.90)
  • neutral expression (expression, 0.85)
  • open mouthed face (expression, 0.85)
  • smiling mouth (expression, 0.85)
  • late 90s style (style, 0.85)
  • surprised look (expression, 0.75)

Actions

  • facial expression changes
  • smiling
  • neutral face
  • open mouth
  • surprised look

Animation

  • facial expression changes between frames
  • head tilt variation
  • mouth shape differences
  • eye position shifts

Animation Summary

10-frame animation showing sequential changes in the character's facial expressions including smiling, neutral face, open mouth, and surprised look with slight head tilt variations between adjacent frames.

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • brown
  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • consistent character framing
  • no text elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of sampled frames from an animated icon, each frame showing the same cartoon character in various expressions. The character has light skin, brown hair, and wears a yellow shirt with red trim under blue sleeves. Facial features include black eyes, a small nose, and mouth shapes varying across frames: smiling, neutral, open-mouthed, and surprised. Each frame shows slight variations in head tilt and eye shape between adjacent frames. The background is solid gray with scattered white pixel noise typical of low-resolution GIFs from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Pixelation and dithering are visible throughout due to limited color palette and compression artifacts common in early internet animations. The character's pose remains consistent across frames, with only facial expressions changing. No text is present on any frame. Each icon measures approximately 42x42 pixels as indicated by the source metadata.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of a cartoon character's animated expression sequence with visible pixelation and dithering on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

unknown cartoon character | basis both | confidence low | evidence: consistent facial features across frames, yellow shirt with red trim, blue sleeves

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text or branding to confirm specific character name/fandom
  • category labels not supported by visual evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • search/gifs/cartoon/movie/instant-messenger/buddy icons

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful
  • varied expressions

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • late 90s cartoon animation icon
  • yellow shirt blue sleeves pixel art
  • gray background dithering expression sequence

Objects

  • yellow shirt with red trim
  • blue sleeves

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with 12 sampled frames (4 columns x 3 rows)
  • gray background with white pixel noise
  • source frame count: 10, sampled frame count: 10
  • review image pixels: 1024x768

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity or explicit content
  • cartoon character style is non-explicit
  • no sexual references in visual elements

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative source hints suggest 'GifCities' and various categories like search/gifs/cartoon/movie/instant-messenger/buddy icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • dithering effect
  • late 90s internet style

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character animation style from late 90s/early 2000s internet culture

Wordwall

  • cartoon character
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • yellow shirt
  • red trim
  • blue sleeves
  • black eyes
  • small nose
  • smiling mouth
  • neutral expression
  • open-mouthed face
  • surprised look
  • head tilt variation
  • pixelated animation
  • dithering effect
  • gray background
  • white pixel noise
  • 42x42 pixels
  • late 90s style
  • low-resolution gif
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Kind
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Era
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Type
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Category
search / gifcities
Title
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Rights
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Kind
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Type
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Category
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Title
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Rights
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Kind
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Era
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Type
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Category
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Title
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Kind
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Era
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Type
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Category
search / gifcities
Title
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Rights
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Kind
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Era
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Type
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Category
search / gifcities
Title
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Rights
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Type
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Category
search / gifcities
Title
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Rights
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