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Pixelated computer monitor with smiling face, blue hands waving against changing backgrounds.

Pixelated computer monitor with smiling face, blue hands waving against changing backgrounds. Animated 57×53 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Sma…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • hands alternate waving left and right across frames
  • background patterns shift between solid, dotted, checkered styles

Animation Summary

The monitor's blue hands alternate waving left and right while the background shifts between yellow with pink dots, red-orange checkered, solid bright yellow, brown, and repeated red-orange checkered patterns.

Composition

  • centered monitor
  • symmetrical hand positions
  • repeating background changes

Dense Caption

A pixel-art computer monitor displays a yellow screen with a black-outlined smiley face (two dots for eyes, curved line mouth). The monitor has gray base and stand. Blue hands wave from both sides of the monitor; left hand waves in first frame, right hand waves in second frame, then left hand again in third frame. Backgrounds change across frames: yellow with pink dots, red-orange checkered, solid bright yellow, red-orange checkered, brown, red-orange checkered.

Description

  • Pixelated computer monitor with smiling face, blue hands waving against changing backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Buddy Icon Archive Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icon archives
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: collection pages

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • buddy icon archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling face computer monitor
  • blue hands pixel art animation
  • yellow screen smiley face
  • red orange checkered background
  • waving hands 8-bit graphics
  • pixel art monitor animation
  • computer monitor yellow screen
  • blue hand waving animation

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Wordwall

  • smiling face
  • blue hands waving
  • yellow screen
  • gray monitor base
  • pink dot background
  • red-orange checkered background
  • brown background
  • pixel art style

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July 10, 2026

GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

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GifCities
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search / gifcities
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GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:31 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities Buddy Icon Archive Small Mixed-Size Search

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GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Archive Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
57×53 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/654dc937f297c258d0b4097ef9e784ea8388d32b64f95d0ae39080caa1854799.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:31 UTC
Archive ID
654dc937f297c258
SHA-256
654dc937f297c258d0b4097ef9e784ea8388d32b64f95d0ae39080caa1854799
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
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1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated computer monitor with smiling face, blue hands waving against changing backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:14 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,039 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,131, response 749

Review tags

  • waving hands (action, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • background patterns (object, 0.80)
  • monitor base (object, 0.80)
  • monitor screen (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • computer monitor (subject, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)
  • smiling face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving hands

Animation

  • hands alternate waving left and right across frames
  • background patterns shift between solid, dotted, checkered styles

Animation Summary

The monitor's blue hands alternate waving left and right while the background shifts between yellow with pink dots, red-orange checkered, solid bright yellow, brown, and repeated red-orange checkered patterns.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray
  • red-orange
  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • centered monitor
  • symmetrical hand positions
  • repeating background changes

Dense Caption

A pixel-art computer monitor displays a yellow screen with a black-outlined smiley face (two dots for eyes, curved line mouth). The monitor has gray base and stand. Blue hands wave from both sides of the monitor; left hand waves in first frame, right hand waves in second frame, then left hand again in third frame. Backgrounds change across frames: yellow with pink dots, red-orange checkered, solid bright yellow, red-orange checkered, brown, red-orange checkered.

Description

  • Pixelated computer monitor with smiling face, blue hands waving against changing backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Buddy Icon Archive Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icon archives
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: collection pages

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • buddy icon archive

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling face computer monitor
  • blue hands pixel art animation
  • yellow screen smiley face
  • red orange checkered background
  • waving hands 8-bit graphics
  • pixel art monitor animation
  • computer monitor yellow screen
  • blue hand waving animation

Objects

  • monitor screen
  • monitor base
  • background patterns

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • computer monitor
  • smiling face
  • hands

Wordwall

  • smiling face
  • blue hands waving
  • yellow screen
  • gray monitor base
  • pink dot background
  • red-orange checkered background
  • brown background
  • pixel art style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:47 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 (2)
GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-instant-messenger-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:31 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger buddy-icon candidates using explicit product wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/J66JEWFRLX6FRM57IDR6QH4X52PQT3KV.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/J66JEWFRLX6FRM57IDR6QH4X52PQT3KV.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090724205635/http://it.geocities.com/tocci65/antichita.htm 
GifCities Buddy Icon Archive Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-buddy-icon-archive-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Archive Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:35 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities graphics from pages using buddy-icon archive wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/J66JEWFRLX6FRM57IDR6QH4X52PQT3KV.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/J66JEWFRLX6FRM57IDR6QH4X52PQT3KV.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090724205635/http://it.geocities.com/tocci65/antichita.htm