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Pixelated icon with blue text on a checkered background, showing sequential changes in orientation and a small pink square in the corner.

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Pixelated icon with blue text on a checkered background, showing sequential changes in orientation and a small pink square in the corner.

Pixelated icon with blue text on a checkered background, showing sequential changes in orientation and a small pink square in the corner. Animated 40×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from Gi…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • orientation changes
  • position shifting
  • folding

Animation Summary

The icon changes orientation across frames: tilted left, tilted right, folded, with a small pink square shifting position relative to the icon's edges.

Composition

  • checkered background
  • text on surface
  • small square corner

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated, checkered-patterned rectangle with blue text 'SOS' on its surface. It appears in five sequential views: top-left view shows the icon tilted left with a small pink square in the top-right corner; top-middle view shows the icon tilted right with the pink square in the top-left corner; top-right view shows the icon tilted right with the pink square in the top-right corner; bottom-left view shows the icon tilted left with the pink square in the bottom-right corner; bottom-middle view shows the icon folded with the pink square in the bottom-right corner. The background is solid gray. The icon's orientation changes across views, with the pink square's position shifting relative to the icon's edges.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with blue text on a checkered background, showing sequential changes in orientation and a small pink square in the corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SOS icon
  • checkered pattern
  • blue text
  • pink square
  • gray background
  • tilted icon
  • folded icon
  • pixelated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated content but no motion is visible in the static frames provided

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Message 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

  • SOS

Wordwall

  • checkered pattern
  • blue text 'SOS'
  • small pink square
  • gray background
  • tilted left
  • tilted right
  • folded
  • pink square top-right
  • pink square bottom-right

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Instant Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant Message Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
40×40 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f427c896047ec036b1fbe1529105fcb1e92ecb0800a06356f68ab15e1ffccd5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:54 UTC
Archive ID
6f427c896047ec03
SHA-256
6f427c896047ec036b1fbe1529105fcb1e92ecb0800a06356f68ab15e1ffccd5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115502

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909737onnx/unsafe0.115502onnx/nsfw0.078985onnx/nsfl0.036517
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with blue text on a checkered background, showing sequential changes in orientation and a small pink square in the corner.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 23:34 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,134 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 884

Review tags

  • folding (action, 0.80)
  • position shifting (action, 0.80)
  • tilting (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pink square (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • tilting
  • folding
  • position shifting

Animation

  • orientation changes
  • position shifting
  • folding

Animation Summary

The icon changes orientation across frames: tilted left, tilted right, folded, with a small pink square shifting position relative to the icon's edges.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • blue
  • pink
  • brown

Composition

  • checkered background
  • text on surface
  • small square corner

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated, checkered-patterned rectangle with blue text 'SOS' on its surface. It appears in five sequential views: top-left view shows the icon tilted left with a small pink square in the top-right corner; top-middle view shows the icon tilted right with the pink square in the top-left corner; top-right view shows the icon tilted right with the pink square in the top-right corner; bottom-left view shows the icon tilted left with the pink square in the bottom-right corner; bottom-middle view shows the icon folded with the pink square in the bottom-right corner. The background is solid gray. The icon's orientation changes across views, with the pink square's position shifting relative to the icon's edges.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with blue text on a checkered background, showing sequential changes in orientation and a small pink square in the corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SOS icon
  • checkered pattern
  • blue text
  • pink square
  • gray background
  • tilted icon
  • folded icon
  • pixelated icon

Objects

  • pink square

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated content but no motion is visible in the static frames provided

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Message 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
  • low-resolution
  • retro

Subjects

  • icon

Visible Text

  • SOS

Wordwall

  • checkered pattern
  • blue text 'SOS'
  • small pink square
  • gray background
  • tilted left
  • tilted right
  • folded
  • pink square top-right
  • pink square bottom-right
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:44 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 05:11 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 Instant Message Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-message-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant Message Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:54 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities instant-message icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UDNIDZBPITOLI6FDGIKAODBXGKBZKPZP.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UDNIDZBPITOLI6FDGIKAODBXGKBZKPZP.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091024102123/http://geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/4640/