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Pixelated white blob with rectangular eyes and cyan cheek mark, standing on black shadow against gray background with blue vertical stripes.

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Pixelated white blob with rectangular eyes and cyan cheek mark, standing on black shadow against gray background with blue vertical stripes.

Pixelated white blob with rectangular eyes and cyan cheek mark, standing on black shadow against gray background with blue vertical stripes. Animated 41×38 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • vertical blue stripes shift position across frames
  • dots indicate transition between states

Animation Summary

  • The blue vertical stripes shift rightward across frames, with dot transitions between states; the figure and shadow remain static.

Composition

  • central figure
  • horizontal alignment of elements
  • repeating stripe pattern on right

Dense Caption

White pixelated blob-shaped figure with two horizontal black lines for eyebrows, a large black-outlined rectangle as the main eye, and a smaller cyan rectangle as a secondary eye or cheek mark. The figure has a small pointed top and rests on a solid black shadow against a light gray background. Blue vertical stripes appear to the right of the figure; their number changes across observations from four to three to five to six. A series of dots appears between some frames, indicating animation transitions.

Description

  • Pixelated white blob with rectangular eyes and cyan cheek mark, standing on black shadow against gray background with blue vertical stripes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sad
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blob cyan cheek mark
  • blue stripe animation gray background
  • white shape black rectangle eye

Wordwall

  • white blob
  • black rectangle eye
  • cyan cheek mark
  • black shadow base
  • gray background
  • blue vertical stripes
  • pixelated style
  • dot transition

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
41×38 pixels
File size
1018 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Archive ID
9e019c5058adbccd
SHA-256
9e019c5058adbccd935f3f29b9df53fce06b1f8667e3e08adf588525bef41ec3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082736

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated white blob with rectangular eyes and cyan cheek mark, standing on black shadow against gray background with blue vertical stripes.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,220 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,061, response 709

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • black shadow (object, 0.80)
  • vertical blue stripes (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit aesthetic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • blob figure (subject, 0.80)

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  • stripes shift rightward in sequence

Animation

  • vertical blue stripes shift position across frames
  • dots indicate transition between states

Animation Summary

  • The blue vertical stripes shift rightward across frames, with dot transitions between states; the figure and shadow remain static.

Colors

  • white
  • gray
  • blue
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • horizontal alignment of elements
  • repeating stripe pattern on right

Dense Caption

White pixelated blob-shaped figure with two horizontal black lines for eyebrows, a large black-outlined rectangle as the main eye, and a smaller cyan rectangle as a secondary eye or cheek mark. The figure has a small pointed top and rests on a solid black shadow against a light gray background. Blue vertical stripes appear to the right of the figure; their number changes across observations from four to three to five to six. A series of dots appears between some frames, indicating animation transitions.

Description

  • Pixelated white blob with rectangular eyes and cyan cheek mark, standing on black shadow against gray background with blue vertical stripes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sad
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
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  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

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  • pixelated blob cyan cheek mark
  • blue stripe animation gray background
  • white shape black rectangle eye

Objects

  • vertical blue stripes
  • black shadow

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit aesthetic

Subjects

  • blob figure

Wordwall

  • white blob
  • black rectangle eye
  • cyan cheek mark
  • black shadow base
  • gray background
  • blue vertical stripes
  • pixelated style
  • dot transition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:52 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 Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-sad-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities sad icon candidates common in AIM expression culture
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/NDUWAFBMJR2SBHWXCXLI2CG7XAAV72BD.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/NDUWAFBMJR2SBHWXCXLI2CG7XAAV72BD.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090727233931/http://geocities.com/imperial_wind/