Blue 'Y' character with white and gray motion effects on a light gray background, transitioning through multiple animation frames.

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Blue 'Y' character with white and gray motion effects on a light gray background, transitioning through multiple animation frames.

Blue 'Y' character with white and gray motion effects on a light gray background, transitioning through multiple animation frames. Animated 45×35 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities…

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Animation

  • progressive distortion from solid lettering to abstract motion patterns

Animation Summary

The blue 'Y' transitions through five distinct animation states: solid lettering with shadow, partial pixelation, extensive motion blur, swirling distortion, and flowing curve resolution.

Composition

  • central subject on uniform background

Dense Caption

The icon features a blue uppercase 'Y' as the central subject. The 'Y' appears in five distinct states across sequential observations: first as a solid blue letter with subtle shadowing; second showing partial white pixelation around its edges; third displaying more extensive white and light gray motion blur effects; fourth transitioning to a swirling, distorted form with blended blue and white pixels; fifth resolving into a smooth, flowing curve. The background remains consistently light gray throughout all frames. Each frame shows progressive animation changes where the 'Y' transforms from solid lettering to abstract motion patterns while maintaining its core blue color.

Description

  • Blue 'Y' character with white and gray motion effects on a light gray background, transitioning through multiple animation frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): yahoo-messenger
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): A5CVVUTY4UVJTR4BYHAOBNDCVMRALXCA
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue Y animated
  • motion blur Y icon
  • swirling Y transition
  • flowing Y animation

Visually Supported Entities

  • Y character

Wordwall

  • blue Y
  • light gray background
  • white pixelation
  • motion blur effects
  • swirling distortion
  • flowing curve transition

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

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 17:08 UTC

GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
45×35 pixels
File size
12.1 KB
Motion
Animated (20 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3ec75d5588a01d57032acabaa2e8e968aab48e42ec0620dac6b6b3d41262ca9d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
3ec75d5588a01d57
SHA-256
3ec75d5588a01d57032acabaa2e8e968aab48e42ec0620dac6b6b3d41262ca9d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.290596

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue 'Y' character with white and gray motion effects on a light gray background, transitioning through multiple animation frames.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,331, response 747

Review tags

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  • resolves to flowing curves (action, 0.80)
  • transitions through motion states (action, 0.80)
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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • motion blurred (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • y character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transitions through motion states
  • distorts into swirling patterns
  • resolves to flowing curves

Animation

  • progressive distortion from solid lettering to abstract motion patterns

Animation Summary

The blue 'Y' transitions through five distinct animation states: solid lettering with shadow, partial pixelation, extensive motion blur, swirling distortion, and flowing curve resolution.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • light gray

Composition

  • central subject on uniform background

Dense Caption

The icon features a blue uppercase 'Y' as the central subject. The 'Y' appears in five distinct states across sequential observations: first as a solid blue letter with subtle shadowing; second showing partial white pixelation around its edges; third displaying more extensive white and light gray motion blur effects; fourth transitioning to a swirling, distorted form with blended blue and white pixels; fifth resolving into a smooth, flowing curve. The background remains consistently light gray throughout all frames. Each frame shows progressive animation changes where the 'Y' transforms from solid lettering to abstract motion patterns while maintaining its core blue color.

Description

  • Blue 'Y' character with white and gray motion effects on a light gray background, transitioning through multiple animation frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): yahoo-messenger
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): A5CVVUTY4UVJTR4BYHAOBNDCVMRALXCA
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue Y animated
  • motion blur Y icon
  • swirling Y transition
  • flowing Y animation

Style

  • animated
  • pixelated
  • motion-blurred

Subjects

  • Y character

Visually Supported Entities

  • Y character

Wordwall

  • blue Y
  • light gray background
  • white pixelation
  • motion blur effects
  • swirling distortion
  • flowing curve transition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:44 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 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 17:08 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 Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-yahoo-messenger-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square Yahoo Messenger icon candidates adjacent to AIM-era identity graphics