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Red @ symbol icons in various 3D rotations and perspectives displayed on a gray background.

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Red @ symbol icons in various 3D rotations and perspectives displayed on a gray background.

Red @ symbol icons in various 3D rotations and perspectives displayed on a gray background. Animated 48×52 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search, GeoC…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • continuous rotation
  • perspective shifts

Animation Summary

  • The @ symbol rotates through multiple perspectives showing top-down, side, and front views with consistent red coloration.

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

@ symbols rendered as red, pixelated, three-dimensional objects with varying orientations across multiple frames. Each frame shows the same object from different angles: top-down views, side profiles, front-facing positions, and rotated perspectives. The shapes maintain consistent red coloration with darker shading to indicate depth. All icons appear on a solid gray background without additional elements or text.

Description

  • Red @ symbol icons in various 3D rotations and perspectives displayed on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red @ symbol 3D pixel art
  • @ symbol rotation
  • gray background red icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: @ symbol rotation grid

Wordwall

  • red
  • @ symbol
  • 3D rendering
  • pixelated texture
  • multiple angles
  • gray background

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×52 pixels
File size
7.3 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/175f889a5df8d9fae8295a1b55c7060f0dd2ca7c3deb7448950fde39e5a71e58.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
175f889a5df8d9fa
SHA-256
175f889a5df8d9fae8295a1b55c7060f0dd2ca7c3deb7448950fde39e5a71e58
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085798

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

Red @ symbol icons in various 3D rotations and perspectives displayed on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:10 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,233 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 592

Review tags

  • reorienting (action, 0.80)
  • rotating (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • continuous rotation (other, 0.80)
  • perspective shifts (other, 0.80)
  • 3d rendering (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symbol (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rotating
  • reorienting

Animation

  • continuous rotation
  • perspective shifts

Animation Summary

  • The @ symbol rotates through multiple perspectives showing top-down, side, and front views with consistent red coloration.

Colors

  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

@ symbols rendered as red, pixelated, three-dimensional objects with varying orientations across multiple frames. Each frame shows the same object from different angles: top-down views, side profiles, front-facing positions, and rotated perspectives. The shapes maintain consistent red coloration with darker shading to indicate depth. All icons appear on a solid gray background without additional elements or text.

Description

  • Red @ symbol icons in various 3D rotations and perspectives displayed on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red @ symbol 3D pixel art
  • @ symbol rotation
  • gray background red icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: @ symbol rotation grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • 3D rendering

Subjects

  • @ symbol

Wordwall

  • red
  • @ symbol
  • 3D rendering
  • pixelated texture
  • multiple angles
  • gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:41 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 AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL icon candidates from pages that did not necessarily say buddy icon
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/O7VRG7AFMEWBUECYEAC3KE3A2Y6JXSJH.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/O7VRG7AFMEWBUECYEAC3KE3A2Y6JXSJH.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027041655/http://br.geocities.com/maurohonda_2000/e.html