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Animated character with blue @ symbol head, white eyes and feet, holding a brown stick in various poses against black background.

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Animated character with blue @ symbol head, white eyes and feet, holding a brown stick in various poses against black background.

Animated character with blue @ symbol head, white eyes and feet, holding a brown stick in various poses against black background. Animated 100×100 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCitie…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • left hand alternates between open palm, clenched fist, partial grip; stick shifts position slightly across frames

Animation Summary

Character holds stick in right hand; left hand alternates between open palm, clenched fist, and partial grip while stick shifts position slightly across frames.

Composition

  • character centered
  • tail extends left
  • gray corner bottom-right

Dense Caption

Blue cartoon character with large white eyes and rounded white feet. Body forms an '@' symbol; the tail is a segmented blue tube extending left. Character holds a thin light-brown stick in right hand across all frames. Left hand alternates between open palm, clenched fist, and partial grip. Stick position shifts slightly: held upright at 0° (top-left), angled down-right at ~30° (middle-center), then up-right at ~45° (bottom-right). Eyes remain fixed; no facial expression changes. Background is solid black except for bottom-right corner showing gray area.

Description

  • Animated character with blue @ symbol head, white eyes and feet, holding a brown stick in various poses against black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): buddy
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): ZJSKAWXUP7UP5SR77D5KUPC2QAMGSH24
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Buddy Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy lists
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • @ symbol cartoon character
  • blue segmented tail
  • brown stick animation
  • white eyes black background

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visually Supported Entities

  • @ symbol head
  • blue segmented tail

Wordwall

  • @ symbol head
  • white eyes
  • white feet
  • blue segmented tail
  • brown stick
  • black background
  • gray corner

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

GifCities AOL Buddy Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
100×100 pixels
File size
14.2 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:53 UTC
Archive ID
3bd806ace6764d33
SHA-256
3bd806ace6764d33eba7212d651ff5d82d7d2b0f4c28d15db06dabeeccdf6ac0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085995

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

Animated character with blue @ symbol head, white eyes and feet, holding a brown stick in various poses against black background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 13:18 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,803 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 750

Review tags

  • holding stick (action, 0.80)
  • left hand changing pose (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • stick (object, 0.80)
  • 3d rendered cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding stick
  • left hand changing pose

Animation

  • left hand alternates between open palm, clenched fist, partial grip; stick shifts position slightly across frames

Animation Summary

Character holds stick in right hand; left hand alternates between open palm, clenched fist, and partial grip while stick shifts position slightly across frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • tail extends left
  • gray corner bottom-right

Dense Caption

Blue cartoon character with large white eyes and rounded white feet. Body forms an '@' symbol; the tail is a segmented blue tube extending left. Character holds a thin light-brown stick in right hand across all frames. Left hand alternates between open palm, clenched fist, and partial grip. Stick position shifts slightly: held upright at 0° (top-left), angled down-right at ~30° (middle-center), then up-right at ~45° (bottom-right). Eyes remain fixed; no facial expression changes. Background is solid black except for bottom-right corner showing gray area.

Description

  • Animated character with blue @ symbol head, white eyes and feet, holding a brown stick in various poses against black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): buddy
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): ZJSKAWXUP7UP5SR77D5KUPC2QAMGSH24
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Buddy Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy lists
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • @ symbol cartoon character
  • blue segmented tail
  • brown stick animation
  • white eyes black background

Objects

  • stick

Style

  • 3D-rendered cartoon
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visually Supported Entities

  • @ symbol head
  • blue segmented tail

Wordwall

  • @ symbol head
  • white eyes
  • white feet
  • blue segmented tail
  • brown stick
  • black background
  • gray corner
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:28 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 AOL Buddy Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-buddy-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:53 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL buddy candidates that may not include icon wording
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