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Blue background with white dots, multiple document and envelope icons in black-and-white pixel art style.

Blue background with white dots, multiple document and envelope icons in black-and-white pixel art style. Animated 45×52 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Away Message Icon Small…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • multiple views of same objects

Dense Caption

A blue square filled with scattered white pixels appears first. Next, a sequence of static images shows various document and envelope designs: some documents have handwritten text lines like 'WAS MEL!' and '...THE B...', others show folded corners or torn edges; envelopes display sealed flaps, open tops, or angled positions. All non-blue elements are black-and-white pixel art with visible dithering on gray backgrounds.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots, multiple document and envelope icons in black-and-white pixel art style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): away-message
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white dots document envelope pixel art
  • handwritten text folded corner torn edge sealed flap open top

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Subjects

  • envelope

Visible Text

  • WAS MEL!
  • ...THE B...

Visually Supported Entities

  • document
  • envelope

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dots
  • handwritten text lines
  • folded document corner
  • torn edge
  • sealed envelope flap
  • open envelope top
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Away Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
soho / cafe / 3965
Era
GeoCities Away-Message Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
45×52 pixels
File size
14.7 KB
Motion
Animated (54 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/5795f6ef0973a4020dcde85341b488dbce2f66ede9492d004bc96370eb0655da.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:01 UTC
Archive ID
5795f6ef0973a402
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107622

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue background with white dots, multiple document and envelope icons in black-and-white pixel art style.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 14:02 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,737 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,648, response 607

Review tags

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  • opening (action, 0.80)
  • sealing (action, 0.80)
  • tearing (action, 0.80)
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  • sealing
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  • white
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  • multiple views of same objects

Dense Caption

A blue square filled with scattered white pixels appears first. Next, a sequence of static images shows various document and envelope designs: some documents have handwritten text lines like 'WAS MEL!' and '...THE B...', others show folded corners or torn edges; envelopes display sealed flaps, open tops, or angled positions. All non-blue elements are black-and-white pixel art with visible dithering on gray backgrounds.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots, multiple document and envelope icons in black-and-white pixel art style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): away-message
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white dots document envelope pixel art
  • handwritten text folded corner torn edge sealed flap open top

Objects

  • pen
  • paper

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

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  • pixel art
  • dithered shading
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Subjects

  • document
  • envelope

Visible Text

  • WAS MEL!
  • ...THE B...

Visually Supported Entities

  • document
  • envelope

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dots
  • handwritten text lines
  • folded document corner
  • torn edge
  • sealed envelope flap
  • open envelope top
  • pixelated rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:36 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 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
soho / cafe / 3965
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:01 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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