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Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background.

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Perceptual
3
pHash distance
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Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background.

Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background. Animated 49×49 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL IM Buddy Ic…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • rotating to show multiple faces

Animation Summary

  • The cube rotates to show multiple faces with the @ symbol.

Composition

  • single object
  • rotating
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background. The cube has a smooth, matte surface with visible edges and corners. Each face of the cube displays the @ symbol in a circular embossed design. The cube rotates to reveal different faces, showing the @ symbol from various angles. The background is a solid gray color. The cube appears to be a 3D model with consistent blue coloring and uniform lighting.

Description

  • Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL IM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL IM Buddy-Icon Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AOL IM
  • instant messaging

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cube @ symbol
  • rotating cube @ symbol
  • 3D cube @ symbol
  • blue @ symbol cube
  • embossed @ symbol cube
  • gray background cube
  • rotating @ symbol cube
  • multiple faces @ symbol cube

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL IM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL IM Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging

Visible Text

  • @

Visually Supported Entities

  • @ symbol

Wordwall

  • blue cube
  • @ symbol
  • embossed
  • gray background
  • rotating
  • multiple faces
  • smooth surface
  • circular design
  • 3D model
  • consistent blue

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AOL IM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL IM Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
49×49 pixels
File size
7.1 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bf2f27737764443c2dc4df9de9b6ffa17d2ea350e6f1e860074f0299cb0e0505.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:55 UTC
Archive ID
bf2f27737764443c
SHA-256
bf2f27737764443c2dc4df9de9b6ffa17d2ea350e6f1e860074f0299cb0e0505
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076611

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Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 23:36 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,093 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,081, response 805

Review tags

  • rotating (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • rotating to show multiple faces (other, 0.80)
  • 3d model (style, 0.80)
  • embossed (style, 0.80)
  • smooth surface (style, 0.80)
  • cube (subject, 0.80)
  • symbol (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rotating

Animation

  • rotating to show multiple faces

Animation Summary

  • The cube rotates to show multiple faces with the @ symbol.

Colors

  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • single object
  • rotating
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background. The cube has a smooth, matte surface with visible edges and corners. Each face of the cube displays the @ symbol in a circular embossed design. The cube rotates to reveal different faces, showing the @ symbol from various angles. The background is a solid gray color. The cube appears to be a 3D model with consistent blue coloring and uniform lighting.

Description

  • Blue cube with embossed @ symbol on one face, rotating to show multiple faces with @ symbols on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL IM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL IM Buddy-Icon Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AOL IM
  • instant messaging

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cube @ symbol
  • rotating cube @ symbol
  • 3D cube @ symbol
  • blue @ symbol cube
  • embossed @ symbol cube
  • gray background cube
  • rotating @ symbol cube
  • multiple faces @ symbol cube

Objects

  • cube

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2009
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL IM Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging

Style

  • 3D model
  • embossed
  • smooth surface

Subjects

  • cube
  • @ symbol

Visible Text

  • @

Visually Supported Entities

  • @ symbol

Wordwall

  • blue cube
  • @ symbol
  • embossed
  • gray background
  • rotating
  • multiple faces
  • smooth surface
  • circular design
  • 3D model
  • consistent blue
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 05:11 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 AOL IM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-im-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL IM Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:55 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL IM buddy-icon candidates using terse period wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/5JJ4X3P6V6ZJNB7RGICT5UHZ7N227GOZ.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/5JJ4X3P6V6ZJNB7RGICT5UHZ7N227GOZ.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027060819/http://de.geocities.com/dunschuldsengel/mitglieder.htm