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Animated sequence of blue capital A characters in various sizes and positions on white background.

Animated sequence of blue capital A characters in various sizes and positions on white background. Animated 46×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixe…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • frame 0: single dark blue dot
  • frame 1: vertical dark blue line segment appears above large dark blue A
  • frame 2: two stacked dark blue As (large and small) with white triangular cutouts
  • frame 3: large dark blue A at top, medium-sized dark blue A below it, tiny dark blue dot at bottom

Animation Summary

  • Animated sequence showing size and position changes of dark blue capital A characters across on white background

Composition

  • top-left dot
  • vertical line above large A
  • stacked As in third frame
  • large A top, medium A middle, small dot bottom in fourth frame

Dense Caption

Four sequential frames show a single animated asset: top-left frame contains small dark blue dot; second frame shows vertical dark blue line segment above large dark blue A with white triangular cutout; third frame displays two stacked dark blue As (large above small) with white triangular cutouts and subtle shading; fourth frame features large dark blue A at top, medium-sized dark blue A below it, and tiny dark blue dot at bottom. All elements are on solid white background.

Description

  • Animated sequence of blue capital A characters in various sizes and positions on white background.

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
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark blue a animation
  • capital letter a pixelated
  • shaded a character
  • stacked a letters

Objects

  • dot

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined animationSummary: Animated sequence showing size and position changes of dark blue capital A characters across four frames on white background.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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): D5E6WNOQYQMCSZ5TCYSGUXKX2DY4MGPV
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Visible Text

  • A

Visually Supported Entities

  • capital letter A

Wordwall

  • dark blue capital A
  • white background
  • small dot
  • vertical line segment
  • shaded rendering
  • stacked characters

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

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 02:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
46×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/5588d88a4bf8f67ffe29994330f555ff08e3b2acc2562f3e08a756d3bf0a9316.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:44 UTC
Archive ID
5588d88a4bf8f67f
SHA-256
5588d88a4bf8f67ffe29994330f555ff08e3b2acc2562f3e08a756d3bf0a9316
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.163851

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913276onnx/unsafe0.163851onnx/nsfw0.122811onnx/nsfl0.041040
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated sequence of blue capital A characters in various sizes and positions on white background.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:41 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,642 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 926

Review tags

  • position shifting (action, 0.80)
  • size variation (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dot (object, 0.80)
  • line segment (object, 0.80)
  • frame 0 single dark blue dot (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • shaded (style, 0.80)
  • capital letter a (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • size variation
  • position shifting

Animation

  • frame 0: single dark blue dot
  • frame 1: vertical dark blue line segment appears above large dark blue A
  • frame 2: two stacked dark blue As (large and small) with white triangular cutouts
  • frame 3: large dark blue A at top, medium-sized dark blue A below it, tiny dark blue dot at bottom

Animation Summary

  • Animated sequence showing size and position changes of dark blue capital A characters across on white background

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • top-left dot
  • vertical line above large A
  • stacked As in third frame
  • large A top, medium A middle, small dot bottom in fourth frame

Dense Caption

Four sequential frames show a single animated asset: top-left frame contains small dark blue dot; second frame shows vertical dark blue line segment above large dark blue A with white triangular cutout; third frame displays two stacked dark blue As (large above small) with white triangular cutouts and subtle shading; fourth frame features large dark blue A at top, medium-sized dark blue A below it, and tiny dark blue dot at bottom. All elements are on solid white background.

Description

  • Animated sequence of blue capital A characters in various sizes and positions on white background.

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
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark blue a animation
  • capital letter a pixelated
  • shaded a character
  • stacked a letters

Objects

  • dot
  • line segment

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined animationSummary: Animated sequence showing size and position changes of dark blue capital A characters across four frames on white background.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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): D5E6WNOQYQMCSZ5TCYSGUXKX2DY4MGPV
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Style

  • pixelated
  • shaded

Subjects

  • capital letter A

Visible Text

  • A

Visually Supported Entities

  • capital letter A

Wordwall

  • dark blue capital A
  • white background
  • small dot
  • vertical line segment
  • shaded rendering
  • stacked characters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:53 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)
Raw JSON
Full source records (1)
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 02:44 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/D5E6WNOQYQMCSZ5TCYSGUXKX2DY4MGPV.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/D5E6WNOQYQMCSZ5TCYSGUXKX2DY4MGPV.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091024141109/http://geocities.com/esadnet/gulistansite3.htm