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Pixelated envelope icon with black outline and white interior, showing sequential animation of a skull emerging from the open flap.

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Pixelated envelope icon with black outline and white interior, showing sequential animation of a skull emerging from the open flap.

Pixelated envelope icon with black outline and white interior, showing sequential animation of a skull emerging from the open flap. Animated 32×32 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCitie…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • skull emerges from envelope flap
  • skull retracts into envelope

Animation Summary

  • Skull emerges from envelope flap, then retracts back into the envelope.

Composition

  • three

Dense Caption

Six pixel-art frames arranged in three rows show an envelope's transformation: first frame is closed envelope; second frame shows envelope opening to reveal dark interior; third frame reveals partial skull (white eyes, black pupils) inside; fourth and fifth frames show full skull with white teeth and black nose; sixth frame returns to open envelope without skull. All elements are monochrome black-and-white on gray background.

Description

  • Pixelated envelope icon with black outline and white interior, showing sequential animation of a skull emerging from the open flap.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Away Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: away messages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • away-message
  • GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated skull envelope animation
  • monochrome envelope skull sequence
  • gray background pixel art skull
  • envelope opening skull emergence

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six frames
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Subjects

  • envelope
  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • GifCities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • envelope
  • skull
  • black outline
  • white interior
  • gray background
  • sequential animation
  • open flap
  • dark interior
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • white teeth
  • black nose

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

GifCities Away Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
heartland / acres / 5819
Era
GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
32×32 pixels
File size
626 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 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 23:58 UTC
Archive ID
554b1de3e06001e0
SHA-256
554b1de3e06001e055ea15f477935bb3ee6f068695cb184bd9fb14fbc8afebf9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083581

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated envelope icon with black outline and white interior, showing sequential animation of a skull emerging from the open flap.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 13:41 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,400 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,068, response 640

Review tags

  • emerging (action, 0.80)
  • opening (action, 0.80)
  • retracting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • creepy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • flap (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • envelope (subject, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • opening
  • emerging
  • retracting

Animation

  • skull emerges from envelope flap
  • skull retracts into envelope

Animation Summary

  • Skull emerges from envelope flap, then retracts back into the envelope.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three

Dense Caption

Six pixel-art frames arranged in three rows show an envelope's transformation: first frame is closed envelope; second frame shows envelope opening to reveal dark interior; third frame reveals partial skull (white eyes, black pupils) inside; fourth and fifth frames show full skull with white teeth and black nose; sixth frame returns to open envelope without skull. All elements are monochrome black-and-white on gray background.

Description

  • Pixelated envelope icon with black outline and white interior, showing sequential animation of a skull emerging from the open flap.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Away Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: away messages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • away-message
  • GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section

Mood

  • creepy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated skull envelope animation
  • monochrome envelope skull sequence
  • gray background pixel art skull
  • envelope opening skull emergence

Objects

  • flap

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six frames
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • envelope
  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • GifCities

Wordwall

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  • envelope
  • skull
  • black outline
  • white interior
  • gray background
  • sequential animation
  • open flap
  • dark interior
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • white teeth
  • black nose
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:32 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Away Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-away-message-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
heartland / acres / 5819
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:58 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities away-message icon candidates
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