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Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with headphones holding a broken envelope, then a solid envelope, then red Chinese characters.

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Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with headphones holding a broken envelope, then a solid envelope, then red Chinese characters.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • envelope changes from broken to solid to Chinese characters

Animation Summary

  • Character holds wire connected to black outline; envelope inside outline changes from broken to solid to red Chinese characters.

Composition

  • character on cloud
  • envelope in outline
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Yellow cartoon character with black headphones, large white eyes with black pupils, red mouth, and black antennae sits on a white cloud with two black eyes and a red mouth. Character holds a black wire connected to a rectangular black outline. First frame: black outline contains a broken envelope with jagged lines. Second frame: black outline contains a solid black envelope. Third frame: black outline contains red Chinese characters. Background is gray with scattered multicolored pixels. Character and cloud remain static; only the envelope inside the black outline changes.

Description

Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with headphones holding a broken envelope, then a solid envelope, then red Chinese characters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Icons Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character with headphones
  • envelope changes in black outline
  • red Chinese characters in envelope
  • gray background with multicolored pixels

Objects

  • black outline
  • envelope

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Chinese characters

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon character
  • black headphones
  • white cloud
  • black antennae
  • red mouth
  • gray background
  • broken envelope
  • solid envelope
  • red Chinese characters
  • black wire
  • multicolored pixels

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Icons Plural Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
89×99 pixels
File size
9.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71ca80c676b049830a4c314e31b9aa89ee75f1fb476640d7117fc83b47fc394a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:30 UTC
Archive ID
71ca80c676b04983
SHA-256
71ca80c676b049830a4c314e31b9aa89ee75f1fb476640d7117fc83b47fc394a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070027

OpenAI category scores

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

Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with headphones holding a broken envelope, then a solid envelope, then red Chinese characters.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 20:12 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,558 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,071, response 709

Review tags

  • envelope changes (action, 0.80)
  • holds wire (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black outline (object, 0.80)
  • black wire (object, 0.80)
  • chinese characters (object, 0.80)
  • envelope (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • white cloud (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holds wire
  • envelope changes

Animation

  • envelope changes from broken to solid to Chinese characters

Animation Summary

  • Character holds wire connected to black outline; envelope inside outline changes from broken to solid to red Chinese characters.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray
  • multicolored

Composition

  • character on cloud
  • envelope in outline
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Yellow cartoon character with black headphones, large white eyes with black pupils, red mouth, and black antennae sits on a white cloud with two black eyes and a red mouth. Character holds a black wire connected to a rectangular black outline. First frame: black outline contains a broken envelope with jagged lines. Second frame: black outline contains a solid black envelope. Third frame: black outline contains red Chinese characters. Background is gray with scattered multicolored pixels. Character and cloud remain static; only the envelope inside the black outline changes.

Description

Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with headphones holding a broken envelope, then a solid envelope, then red Chinese characters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Icons Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character with headphones
  • envelope changes in black outline
  • red Chinese characters in envelope
  • gray background with multicolored pixels

Objects

  • black wire
  • black outline
  • envelope
  • Chinese characters

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • animated

Subjects

  • yellow cartoon character
  • white cloud

Visible Text

  • Chinese characters

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon character
  • black headphones
  • white cloud
  • black antennae
  • red mouth
  • gray background
  • broken envelope
  • solid envelope
  • red Chinese characters
  • black wire
  • multicolored pixels
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:57 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 04:26 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 AOL Instant Messenger Icons Plural Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-instant-messenger-icons-plural-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:30 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square AOL Instant Messenger icon candidates from pages using plural wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/EJIVJRIQAMPZUV26J2U6L56PHQHFWEJ4.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/EJIVJRIQAMPZUV26J2U6L56PHQHFWEJ4.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027081756/http://hk.geocities.com/littlepig0c/2ndhand/material/material.html