Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a cat-like mascot holding a yellow balloon with subtle facial expression changes between frames.

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Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a cat-like mascot holding a yellow balloon with subtle facial expression changes between frames.

Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a cat-like mascot holding a yellow balloon with subtle facial expression changes between frames. Animated 50×60 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Animation

left frame shows wider face with single shadow rectangle; right frame shows narrower face with dual shadow rectangles; balloon remains static between frames

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing subtle facial expression change between left (wider face) and right (narrower face) frames while holding a static yellow balloon.

Composition

  • two-frame contact sheet with character centered in each frame, gray background filling space around subjects

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixel-art animation contact sheet featuring two side-by-side frames against a solid gray background. Each frame shows the same cartoon character: a round white feline face with orange tabby stripes on its forehead and cheeks, black-outlined ears with orange inner details, small closed eyes, a tiny straight mouth, and red blush marks on both cheeks. The character holds a yellow balloon attached by a thin black string that ends in a white circular knot. In the left frame (index 0), the character's face is slightly wider with more visible whiskers; its shadow appears as a single gray rectangle beneath it. In the right frame (index 1), the face is narrower, cheeks are less rounded, and the shadow becomes two separate darker rectangles. The balloon remains identical in both frames. Pixelation creates blocky edges typical of early digital art, with no anti-aliasing visible. The animation appears to be a subtle facial expression change between these two sampled frames.

Description

Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a cat-like mascot holding a yellow balloon with subtle facial expression changes between frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Neko | basis visible | confidence 0.85 | evidence: white feline face with orange stripes, closed eyes, red blush marks

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

no visible text or branding confirms 'GifCities' name; no character name is present in pixels; category labels like 'nicole043' are not visually supported

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • nicole043

Metadata Supported By Image

source hints identify this as an AIM buddy icon, consistent with the pixel art style and contact sheet format of early instant messenger icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art cat holding yellow balloon two frame animation
  • aim buddy icon cat mascot closed eyes red blush

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1, sampledFrameCount 2 from sourceFrameCount 2, gray background transparency context

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon cat mascot with no sexual or violent content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: gifcities-aim-buddy-icon-small-mixed | title: GifCities | category: nicole043 / link / untitled 4 | url: OEH2IVCZTMGN6E5JKK36C4L4NPBOXXIT | source: gifcities-buddy-icon-small-mixed | category: search / gifcities | source: gifcities-aol-buddy-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-aol-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-aim-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-instant-messenger-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-im-icon-small-mixed

Visually Supported Entities

  • Japanese cat mascot
  • AIM buddy icon style

Wordwall

  • pixel art cat mascot
  • yellow balloon string
  • closed eyes
  • red blush cheeks
  • orange tabby stripes
  • white feline face
  • black outline ears
  • small straight mouth
  • gray background
  • two frame contact sheet
  • subtle facial expression change
  • whiskers visible left frame
  • shadow rectangle left frame
  • shadow dual rectangles right frame
  • thin black balloon string
  • yellow circular balloon
  • closed eye animation
  • red cheek marks
  • orange forehead stripe
  • white knot on string

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AIM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
nicole043 / link / untitled 4
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:26 UTC

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 07:54 UTC

GifCities AOL Buddy 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 07:54 UTC

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 17:28 UTC

GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:28 UTC

GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:29 UTC

GifCities IM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×60 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/20/2021beb20aa5884c0ce64d60e640dae58ca4e9cffe50be7467c01e5fa1c728e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
Archive ID
2021beb20aa5884c
SHA-256
2021beb20aa5884c0ce64d60e640dae58ca4e9cffe50be7467c01e5fa1c728e4
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:37 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076432

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926894onnx/unsafe0.076432onnx/nsfl0.038577onnx/nsfw0.037855
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 10:57 UTC
Run
21
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a cat-like mascot holding a yellow balloon with subtle facial expression changes between frames.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 10:57 UTC
Run
21
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,532 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,050, response 1,345

Review tags

  • gray background (composition, 0.99)
  • two frame animation (animation, 0.98)
  • yellow balloon (object, 0.98)
  • black string (object, 0.97)
  • pixel art (style, 0.97)
  • closed eyes (action, 0.96)
  • white knot (object, 0.96)
  • cat mascot (subject, 0.95)
  • red blush marks (subject, 0.94)
  • orange tabby stripes (subject, 0.93)
  • shadow rectangle left frame (composition, 0.92)
  • shadow dual rectangles right frame (composition, 0.91)
  • facial expression change (animation, 0.85)

Actions

  • holding balloon
  • facial expression change between frames

Animation

left frame shows wider face with single shadow rectangle; right frame shows narrower face with dual shadow rectangles; balloon remains static between frames

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing subtle facial expression change between left (wider face) and right (narrower face) frames while holding a static yellow balloon.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • orange
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • two-frame contact sheet with character centered in each frame, gray background filling space around subjects

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixel-art animation contact sheet featuring two side-by-side frames against a solid gray background. Each frame shows the same cartoon character: a round white feline face with orange tabby stripes on its forehead and cheeks, black-outlined ears with orange inner details, small closed eyes, a tiny straight mouth, and red blush marks on both cheeks. The character holds a yellow balloon attached by a thin black string that ends in a white circular knot. In the left frame (index 0), the character's face is slightly wider with more visible whiskers; its shadow appears as a single gray rectangle beneath it. In the right frame (index 1), the face is narrower, cheeks are less rounded, and the shadow becomes two separate darker rectangles. The balloon remains identical in both frames. Pixelation creates blocky edges typical of early digital art, with no anti-aliasing visible. The animation appears to be a subtle facial expression change between these two sampled frames.

Description

Pixel art contact sheet showing two frames of a cat-like mascot holding a yellow balloon with subtle facial expression changes between frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Neko | basis visible | confidence 0.85 | evidence: white feline face with orange stripes, closed eyes, red blush marks

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

no visible text or branding confirms 'GifCities' name; no character name is present in pixels; category labels like 'nicole043' are not visually supported

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • nicole043

Metadata Supported By Image

source hints identify this as an AIM buddy icon, consistent with the pixel art style and contact sheet format of early instant messenger icons

Mood

  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art cat holding yellow balloon two frame animation
  • aim buddy icon cat mascot closed eyes red blush

Objects

  • yellow balloon
  • black string
  • white knot

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1, sampledFrameCount 2 from sourceFrameCount 2, gray background transparency context

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon cat mascot with no sexual or violent content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: gifcities-aim-buddy-icon-small-mixed | title: GifCities | category: nicole043 / link / untitled 4 | url: OEH2IVCZTMGN6E5JKK36C4L4NPBOXXIT | source: gifcities-buddy-icon-small-mixed | category: search / gifcities | source: gifcities-aol-buddy-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-aol-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-aim-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-instant-messenger-icon-small-mixed | source: gifcities-im-icon-small-mixed

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit animation
  • cartoon mascot

Subjects

  • cat mascot
  • balloon

Visually Supported Entities

  • Japanese cat mascot
  • AIM buddy icon style

Wordwall

  • pixel art cat mascot
  • yellow balloon string
  • closed eyes
  • red blush cheeks
  • orange tabby stripes
  • white feline face
  • black outline ears
  • small straight mouth
  • gray background
  • two frame contact sheet
  • subtle facial expression change
  • whiskers visible left frame
  • shadow rectangle left frame
  • shadow dual rectangles right frame
  • thin black balloon string
  • yellow circular balloon
  • closed eye animation
  • red cheek marks
  • orange forehead stripe
  • white knot on string
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GifCities AIM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
nicole043 / link / untitled 4
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 00:26 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

GifCities AOL Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-buddy-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 07:54 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

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 17:28 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

GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM icon candidates beyond pages that explicitly said buddy icon

GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities instant-messenger icon candidates that may not mention AIM or AOL directly

GifCities IM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-im-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities IM icon candidates with terse period wording