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Pixelated character with purple skin and black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background, text 'DARKHAND' below.

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Pixelated character with purple skin and black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background, text 'DARKHAND' below.

Pixelated character with purple skin and black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background, text 'DARKHAND' below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AIM A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • hand opens from fist to palm

Animation Summary

  • Character's right hand opens from fist to palm across frames while head and background remain static.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with purple skin, black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background. Text 'DARKHAND' appears below the character. The character's right hand moves from a closed fist to an open palm across frames. The background has a brown, textured pattern with white smoke-like effects. The character's head remains static while the hand animates. The text 'DARKHAND' is partially obscured in some frames due to the hand's movement.

Description

  • Pixelated character with purple skin and black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background, text 'DARKHAND' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DARKHAND avatar
  • pixel art character
  • hand movement animation
  • purple skin red eyes
  • brown background smoke
  • text 'DARKHAND'

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate GifCities AIM avatars but pixels confirm character and text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998-2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Visible Text

  • DARKHAND

Visually Supported Entities

  • DARKHAND

Wordwall

  • purple skin
  • black hooded cloak
  • red eyes
  • brown hands
  • brown background
  • text 'DARKHAND'
  • hand movement
  • smoke effects
  • partial text obscuration

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/4346b3cb8e028477580d55ad5993c45113ed55cf3ebad25805d1f0815300ce13.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Archive ID
4346b3cb8e028477
SHA-256
4346b3cb8e028477580d55ad5993c45113ed55cf3ebad25805d1f0815300ce13
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 11:59 UTC
Run
12268
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000534

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000534falsesexual0.000072falseviolence/graphic0.000049falseharassment0.000027falseillicit0.000010falseself-harm0.000007falseharassment/threatening0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000002falsehate0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 13:06 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.071802

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.071802falseviolence/graphic0.002470falsesexual0.000814falseself-harm0.000533falseself-harm/intent0.000220falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.219233

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.899249onnx/unsafe0.219233onnx/nsfw0.184676onnx/nsfl0.034558
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with purple skin and black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background, text 'DARKHAND' below.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,955 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 798

Review tags

  • hand movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • hands (object, 0.80)
  • hand opens from fist to palm (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand movement

Animation

  • hand opens from fist to palm

Animation Summary

  • Character's right hand opens from fist to palm across frames while head and background remain static.

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • red
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with purple skin, black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background. Text 'DARKHAND' appears below the character. The character's right hand moves from a closed fist to an open palm across frames. The background has a brown, textured pattern with white smoke-like effects. The character's head remains static while the hand animates. The text 'DARKHAND' is partially obscured in some frames due to the hand's movement.

Description

  • Pixelated character with purple skin and black hooded cloak, red eyes, brown hands, brown background, text 'DARKHAND' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons

Mood

  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DARKHAND avatar
  • pixel art character
  • hand movement animation
  • purple skin red eyes
  • brown background smoke
  • text 'DARKHAND'

Objects

  • hands

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate GifCities AIM avatars but pixels confirm character and text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998-2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • DARKHAND

Visually Supported Entities

  • DARKHAND

Wordwall

  • purple skin
  • black hooded cloak
  • red eyes
  • brown hands
  • brown background
  • text 'DARKHAND'
  • hand movement
  • smoke effects
  • partial text obscuration
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:18 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 04:46 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 AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-avatars-plural-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square AIM avatar candidates from pages using avatar wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/R5FAGD3DXGX6VMJ2W54KFZ5HR5HPN56O.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/R5FAGD3DXGX6VMJ2W54KFZ5HR5HPN56O.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027090242/http://geocities.com/firetruckbabe/avatars.html