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Yellow background with blue text reading MESSAGE on left and MESSAGE BOARD on right, both in pixelated font.

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Yellow background with blue text reading MESSAGE on left and MESSAGE BOARD on right, both in pixelated font.

Yellow background with blue text reading MESSAGE on left and MESSAGE BOARD on right, both in pixelated font. Animated 79×80 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Message Board Avatar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • text centered
  • two text blocks

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Blue text: MESSAGE on left side, MESSAGE BOARD on right side. Text is pixelated, blocky, and rendered in a serif style. The word BOARD is in a lighter blue shade than MESSAGE. The image is split vertically by a thin gray line. No animation present.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue text reading MESSAGE on left and MESSAGE BOARD on right, both in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): message-board
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: forums
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: identity graphics
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance topic-coverage: message-board avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background blue text message message board
  • pixelated serif text yellow background
  • message board text yellow
  • blue text yellow background
  • message message board pixelated

Visible Text

  • MESSAGE
  • BOARD

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • MESSAGE
  • MESSAGE BOARD
  • pixelated font
  • serif style
  • lighter blue BOARD
  • vertical gray line

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
spss5ca2002
Era
GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
79×80 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/285a6e50550298c2784ff32c91925b20f7f0f52db19677d107547cc2fdd725da.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:27 UTC
Archive ID
285a6e50550298c2
SHA-256
285a6e50550298c2784ff32c91925b20f7f0f52db19677d107547cc2fdd725da
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096674

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.904138onnx/unsafe0.096674onnx/nsfw0.063472onnx/nsfl0.033203
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow background with blue text reading MESSAGE on left and MESSAGE BOARD on right, both in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,969 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 589

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • serif (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical split
  • text centered
  • two text blocks

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Blue text: MESSAGE on left side, MESSAGE BOARD on right side. Text is pixelated, blocky, and rendered in a serif style. The word BOARD is in a lighter blue shade than MESSAGE. The image is split vertically by a thin gray line. No animation present.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue text reading MESSAGE on left and MESSAGE BOARD on right, both in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): message-board
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: forums
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: identity graphics
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance topic-coverage: message-board avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background blue text message message board
  • pixelated serif text yellow background
  • message board text yellow
  • blue text yellow background
  • message message board pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • serif
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • MESSAGE
  • BOARD

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • MESSAGE
  • MESSAGE BOARD
  • pixelated font
  • serif style
  • lighter blue BOARD
  • vertical gray line
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:51 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
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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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:21 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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Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-message-board-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
spss5ca2002
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:27 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square message-board avatar candidates adjacent to buddy-icon culture
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/XLPHRSKZHCA4FVZVHBGKWHSQMDBQ24DX.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/XLPHRSKZHCA4FVZVHBGKWHSQMDBQ24DX.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090903082630/http://geocities.com/spss5ca2002/mbani.gif