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Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features

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Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features

Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Avatar Icon Small Mi…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Composition

  • four heads

Dense Caption

Top-left head: purple spiky hair with white highlights, black eyes, closed mouth. Top-right head: black hair with white zigzag pattern, orange face, brown eyebrows, small ears. Bottom-left head: long dark hair with light green side sections, blue rectangular accessory on forehead, large gray headphones with cross patterns on sides, closed eyes. Bottom-right head: brown skin tone, white circular eyes, green cap with horizontal stripe, visible ear. All heads are pixelated, 16x16 or similar small resolution.

Description

  • Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Avatar Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Avatar and Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: icons
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a 2x2 grid on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Wordwall

  • purple spiky hair
  • white zigzag pattern
  • blue rectangular accessory
  • green cap
  • gray background
  • closed mouth
  • large headphones
  • white circular eyes

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Avatar Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Avatar and Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/08/080d86d46390fb55aa1880b99207ba7075ec31fc77ab03a32d901cccf355a2db.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:39 UTC
Archive ID
080d86d46390fb55
SHA-256
080d86d46390fb55aa1880b99207ba7075ec31fc77ab03a32d901cccf355a2db
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085015

OpenAI category scores

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

Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:29 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,697 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 606

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • black
  • orange
  • brown
  • green
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four heads

Dense Caption

Top-left head: purple spiky hair with white highlights, black eyes, closed mouth. Top-right head: black hair with white zigzag pattern, orange face, brown eyebrows, small ears. Bottom-left head: long dark hair with light green side sections, blue rectangular accessory on forehead, large gray headphones with cross patterns on sides, closed eyes. Bottom-right head: brown skin tone, white circular eyes, green cap with horizontal stripe, visible ear. All heads are pixelated, 16x16 or similar small resolution.

Description

  • Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Avatar Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Avatar and Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: icons
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities

Objects

  • headphones
  • cap

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixel-art character heads arranged in a 2x2 grid on gray background, each with distinct hair and facial features.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • chibi

Subjects

  • character heads

Wordwall

  • purple spiky hair
  • white zigzag pattern
  • blue rectangular accessory
  • green cap
  • gray background
  • closed mouth
  • large headphones
  • white circular eyes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:51 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)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Avatar Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-avatar-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Avatar and Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:39 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities avatar/icon candidates adjacent to buddy-icon culture
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4HFE6IIPGDGS33NMDORTHT3BRVF2USKX.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4HFE6IIPGDGS33NMDORTHT3BRVF2USKX.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091022002838/http://geocities.com/kawaiikafe/adopted.htm