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A black-and-white animated sequence shows a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, holding arms out in a V-shape against a black background, with text changing in each frame.

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A black-and-white animated sequence shows a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, holding arms out in a V-shape against a black background, with text changing in each frame.

A black-and-white animated sequence shows a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, holding arms out in a V-shape against a black background, with text changing in each fram…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • text changes sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'by' to 'before' while the person maintains a neutral expression with arms extended in a V-shape.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text above subject

Dense Caption

Black-and-white animation of a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, arms extended in a V-shape against a black background. Each frame displays a different word: 'by', 'the', 'way', 'i', 'tried', 'to', 'say', 'i', 'know', 'you', 'from', 'before', and a final frame with no text. The person's expression remains neutral throughout. The animation cycles through these words sequentially. The image has a grainy, low-resolution quality typical of early web animations.

Description

A black-and-white animated sequence shows a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, holding arms out in a V-shape against a black background, with text changing in each frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): korn
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Korn Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: band fan pages
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Nu Metal Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • korn
  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless person black background
  • text changing animation
  • black-and-white low-resolution
  • V-shaped arms neutral expression
  • grainy texture sequential text
  • AIM profile animation
  • 1999-2008 web animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): korn
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): BU6LTZNC37BGVJR5WWNFHRZ5YKKTI2BQ
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Korn Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: band fan pages
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Nu Metal Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Visible Text

  • by
  • the
  • way
  • i
  • tried
  • to
  • say
  • know
  • you
  • from
  • before

Wordwall

  • shirtless person
  • dark hair
  • goatee
  • V-shaped arms
  • black background
  • grainy texture
  • sequential text
  • neutral expression
  • black-and-white
  • low-resolution

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Korn Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
Early-2000s Nu Metal Fan Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:26 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
100×100 pixels
File size
42.9 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/240ee24361d730aadb7842db28784551c9c1daeed4dccaa341a471d680ae977e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Archive ID
240ee24361d730aa
SHA-256
240ee24361d730aadb7842db28784551c9c1daeed4dccaa341a471d680ae977e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083236

OpenAI category scores

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

A black-and-white animated sequence shows a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, holding arms out in a V-shape against a black background, with text changing in each frame.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 18:24 UTC
Run
64
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,669 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 972

Review tags

  • holding arms out (action, 0.80)
  • text changing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes sequentially (other, 0.80)
  • black and white (style, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • shirtless person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding arms out
  • text changing

Animation

  • text changes sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'by' to 'before' while the person maintains a neutral expression with arms extended in a V-shape.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text above subject

Dense Caption

Black-and-white animation of a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, arms extended in a V-shape against a black background. Each frame displays a different word: 'by', 'the', 'way', 'i', 'tried', 'to', 'say', 'i', 'know', 'you', 'from', 'before', and a final frame with no text. The person's expression remains neutral throughout. The animation cycles through these words sequentially. The image has a grainy, low-resolution quality typical of early web animations.

Description

A black-and-white animated sequence shows a shirtless person with dark hair and a goatee, holding arms out in a V-shape against a black background, with text changing in each frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): korn
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Korn Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: band fan pages
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Nu Metal Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • korn
  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: GifCities search result

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shirtless person black background
  • text changing animation
  • black-and-white low-resolution
  • V-shaped arms neutral expression
  • grainy texture sequential text
  • AIM profile animation
  • 1999-2008 web animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): korn
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): BU6LTZNC37BGVJR5WWNFHRZ5YKKTI2BQ
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Korn Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: band fan pages
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Nu Metal Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • grainy
  • low-resolution
  • black-and-white

Subjects

  • shirtless person

Visible Text

  • by
  • the
  • way
  • i
  • tried
  • to
  • say
  • know
  • you
  • from
  • before

Wordwall

  • shirtless person
  • dark hair
  • goatee
  • V-shaped arms
  • black background
  • grainy texture
  • sequential text
  • neutral expression
  • black-and-white
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
50
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 02:54 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 Korn Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-korn-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-2000s Nu Metal Fan Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities Korn icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/BU6LTZNC37BGVJR5WWNFHRZ5YKKTI2BQ.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/BU6LTZNC37BGVJR5WWNFHRZ5YKKTI2BQ.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091021141008/http://geocities.com/divinekatattack/chilipepps.html