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A static image of a musical instrument with overlaid text in an East Asian script, displayed on a warm-toned background.

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A static image of a musical instrument with overlaid text in an East Asian script, displayed on a warm-toned background.

A static image of a musical instrument with overlaid text in an East Asian script, displayed on a warm-toned background. Animated 47×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Music Bud…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The icon shows a close-up view of a stringed musical instrument's body and neck against a gradient orange-brown background. White pixelated characters in East Asian script are overlaid across the middle section. The image has visible compression artifacts typical of early web graphics, with distinct horizontal bands of color variation on the instrument surface. A thin black border frames the entire icon.

Description

  • A static image of a musical instrument with overlaid text in an East Asian script, displayed on a warm-toned background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Music Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Music Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: bands
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Music Avatar Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Music Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • musical instrument icon
  • East Asian text overlay
  • orange-brown background
  • pixelated music icon
  • stringed instrument graphic
  • text: 音楽試聴
  • low-resolution music image
  • compression artifacts

Visible Text

  • 音楽試聴

Wordwall

  • stringed musical instrument
  • orange-brown gradient background
  • white pixelated East Asian text
  • compression artifacts
  • black border

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 9, 2026

GifCities Music Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
music6a
Era
GeoCities Music Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities Music Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
music6a
Era
GeoCities Music Avatar Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
47×40 pixels
File size
9.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/2b/2b382889d07e3abdc94ff914db6b5281481450b9dd894aec527496851de9d53d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:36 UTC
Archive ID
2b382889d07e3abd
SHA-256
2b382889d07e3abdc94ff914db6b5281481450b9dd894aec527496851de9d53d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 11:44 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000037

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083039

OpenAI category scores

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A static image of a musical instrument with overlaid text in an East Asian script, displayed on a warm-toned background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 11:40 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,173 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 624

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • musical instrument (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The icon shows a close-up view of a stringed musical instrument's body and neck against a gradient orange-brown background. White pixelated characters in East Asian script are overlaid across the middle section. The image has visible compression artifacts typical of early web graphics, with distinct horizontal bands of color variation on the instrument surface. A thin black border frames the entire icon.

Description

  • A static image of a musical instrument with overlaid text in an East Asian script, displayed on a warm-toned background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Music Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Music Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: bands
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Music Avatar Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Music Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • musical instrument icon
  • East Asian text overlay
  • orange-brown background
  • pixelated music icon
  • stringed instrument graphic
  • text: 音楽試聴
  • low-resolution music image
  • compression artifacts

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grainy

Subjects

  • musical instrument

Visible Text

  • 音楽試聴

Wordwall

  • stringed musical instrument
  • orange-brown gradient background
  • white pixelated East Asian text
  • compression artifacts
  • black border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:11 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 (2)
GifCities Music Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-music-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Music Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
music6a
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:36 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities music buddy-icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/2F2NKHZ5IIQZWSV2FU5X7RD3XMMYW457.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/2F2NKHZ5IIQZWSV2FU5X7RD3XMMYW457.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090803092154/http://hk.geocities.com/music6a/music.gif 
GifCities Music Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-music-avatar-small-mixed-fandom)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Music Avatar Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
music6a
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:55 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities music avatar candidates that overlap buddy-icon use
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/2F2NKHZ5IIQZWSV2FU5X7RD3XMMYW457.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/2F2NKHZ5IIQZWSV2FU5X7RD3XMMYW457.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090803092154/http://hk.geocities.com/music6a/music.gif