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nine square icons with rounded corners, each containing a stylized letter A in various colors and border styles

nine square icons with rounded corners, each containing a stylized letter A in various colors and border styles. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Icon Small Mi…

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Style

Color

Composition

  • three of three icons each
  • centered letter A in each icon
  • uniform spacing between icons

Dense Caption

Nine square icons arranged in three rows and three columns on a light gray background. Each icon has rounded corners and contains a stylized uppercase 'A' centered within. The first row features borders in beige, brown, purple, and dark blue from left to right; the second row shows borders in dark blue, medium blue, lighter blue, and lavender; the third row displays borders in light gray and beige. All icons have solid fill colors matching their border hues except for the top-left icon which has a beige border with a white interior.

Description

  • nine square icons with rounded corners, each containing a stylized letter A in various colors and border styles

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nine square icons with letter A
  • stylized A in multiple border colors
  • pixelated of nine icons
  • beige brown purple blue lavender borders

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of nine square icons with rounded corners, each containing a stylized letter A in various colors and border styles.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of three icons each
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid of nine icons

Visible Text

  • A

Wordwall

  • nine square icons
  • rounded corners
  • stylized uppercase 'A'
  • light gray background
  • beige border (top-left)
  • brown border (top-middle-left)
  • purple border (top-middle-right)
  • dark blue border (top-right)
  • medium blue border (middle-center)
  • lavender border (bottom-right)

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.4 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
48eb39303ff58d1e
SHA-256
48eb39303ff58d1ee66491bbf70d90a9a3b1b65daad149779bed22ea315b92fb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074443

OpenAI category scores

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

nine square icons with rounded corners, each containing a stylized letter A in various colors and border styles

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,034 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,081, response 705

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • lavender (color, 0.80)
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  • beige
  • brown
  • purple
  • dark blue
  • medium blue
  • lighter blue
  • lavender
  • light gray
  • white
  • gray background

Composition

  • three of three icons each
  • centered letter A in each icon
  • uniform spacing between icons

Dense Caption

Nine square icons arranged in three rows and three columns on a light gray background. Each icon has rounded corners and contains a stylized uppercase 'A' centered within. The first row features borders in beige, brown, purple, and dark blue from left to right; the second row shows borders in dark blue, medium blue, lighter blue, and lavender; the third row displays borders in light gray and beige. All icons have solid fill colors matching their border hues except for the top-left icon which has a beige border with a white interior.

Description

  • nine square icons with rounded corners, each containing a stylized letter A in various colors and border styles

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

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  • stylized A in multiple border colors
  • pixelated of nine icons
  • beige brown purple blue lavender borders

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  • quarantined composition: three rows of three icons each
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  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • simplified design

Subjects

  • letter A

Visible Text

  • A

Wordwall

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  • rounded corners
  • stylized uppercase 'A'
  • light gray background
  • beige border (top-left)
  • brown border (top-middle-left)
  • purple border (top-middle-right)
  • dark blue border (top-right)
  • medium blue border (middle-center)
  • lavender border (bottom-right)
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:41 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 Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL icon candidates from pages that did not necessarily say buddy icon
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