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Pixelated cartoon figures on a gray platform with blue background, text reading "And I swear I tried to care" below.

Pixelated cartoon figures on a gray platform with blue background, text reading "And I swear I tried to care" below. Animated 100×93 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Xanga Icon S…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • subtle vertical line artifacts shift across frames

Animation Summary

  • Subtle vertical line artifacts shift across frames, creating slight motion effects on the platform and background.

Composition

  • three figures in horizontal
  • text below platform

Dense Caption

Three identical pixel-art stick figures with white spherical heads and black dot eyes stand side-by-side on a gray platform against a solid light blue background. The leftmost figure wears an olive-green outfit; the middle and right figures wear yellow outfits. All three hold tripods with camera lenses pointed downward. Text below reads "And I swear I tried to care" in pixelated font. Animation shows subtle vertical line artifacts shifting across frames, creating slight motion effects on the platform and background.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon figures on a gray platform with blue background, text reading "And I swear I tried to care" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): xanga
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): CQNAVEHCWS4FYYCARPVJFDKRC6JKNOVZ
  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • xanga
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
  • mixed-size
  • personal-web

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art stick figures with tripods
  • And I swear I tried to care text
  • three figures gray platform blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three figures in horizontal row

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • And I swear I tried to care

Wordwall

  • white spherical heads
  • black dot eyes
  • olive-green outfit
  • yellow outfits
  • tripods with lenses
  • gray platform
  • light blue background
  • "And I swear I tried to care" text
  • pixelated font
  • vertical line artifacts

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
100×93 pixels
File size
9.1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 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 03:06 UTC
Archive ID
1b4672f38b6c6970
SHA-256
1b4672f38b6c6970ba134195e590e50512831cb7ad5f4c157bb1e1e7fbe1969e
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082282

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

Pixelated cartoon figures on a gray platform with blue background, text reading "And I swear I tried to care" below.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:31 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,413 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,068, response 774

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • stick figures (subject, 0.80)
  • tripods (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • holding tripods

Animation

  • subtle vertical line artifacts shift across frames

Animation Summary

  • Subtle vertical line artifacts shift across frames, creating slight motion effects on the platform and background.

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • olive-green
  • yellow
  • gray
  • light blue

Composition

  • three figures in horizontal
  • text below platform

Dense Caption

Three identical pixel-art stick figures with white spherical heads and black dot eyes stand side-by-side on a gray platform against a solid light blue background. The leftmost figure wears an olive-green outfit; the middle and right figures wear yellow outfits. All three hold tripods with camera lenses pointed downward. Text below reads "And I swear I tried to care" in pixelated font. Animation shows subtle vertical line artifacts shifting across frames, creating slight motion effects on the platform and background.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon figures on a gray platform with blue background, text reading "And I swear I tried to care" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): xanga
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): CQNAVEHCWS4FYYCARPVJFDKRC6JKNOVZ
  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
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  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

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Mood

  • neutral
  • melancholic

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  • And I swear I tried to care text
  • three figures gray platform blue background

Objects

  • tripods with lenses

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three figures in horizontal row

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  • pixel art
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  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stick figures
  • tripods

Visible Text

  • And I swear I tried to care

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  • black dot eyes
  • olive-green outfit
  • yellow outfits
  • tripods with lenses
  • gray platform
  • light blue background
  • "And I swear I tried to care" text
  • pixelated font
  • vertical line artifacts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:06 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 Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-xanga-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:06 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square Xanga-style icon candidates from personal web pages
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