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Two side-by-side square icons with silver backgrounds display a blue lowercase 'a' in pixelated font, differing slightly in stroke thickness and shadow placement.

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Two side-by-side square icons with silver backgrounds display a blue lowercase 'a' in pixelated font, differing slightly in stroke thickness and shadow placement.

Two side-by-side square icons with silver backgrounds display a blue lowercase 'a' in pixelated font, differing slightly in stroke thickness and shadow placement. Animated 48×48 G…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Animation

  • stroke thickness changes between frames
  • shadow placement shifts between frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue lowercase 'a' changes from thick-stroked to thin-stroked with corresponding shadow placement shifts between

Composition

  • square frame
  • centered subject
  • two- layout

Dense Caption

The left icon features a solid blue lowercase 'a' with thick strokes on a silver background; the right icon shows a thinner-stroked version of the same letter. Both icons have a metallic sheen with subtle gradients suggesting depth. The left icon's 'a' has a darker shadow beneath it, while the right icon's shadow is lighter and positioned differently. Pixelation is visible in both letters and backgrounds.

Description

Two side-by-side square icons with silver backgrounds display a blue lowercase 'a' in pixelated font, differing slightly in stroke thickness and shadow placement.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Profile Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL profiles
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Profile Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL profiles
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue a silver background
  • pixelated a animation
  • thick stroke vs thin stroke a
  • silver background blue letter

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The blue lowercase 'a' changes from thick-stroked to thin-stroked with corresponding shadow placement shifts between two frames.
  • quarantined composition: two-panel layout

Visible Text

  • a

Wordwall

  • silver background
  • blue lowercase 'a'
  • pixelated font
  • thick stroke (left)
  • thin stroke (right)
  • darker shadow (left)
  • lighter shadow (right)

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AOL Profile Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Profile Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/76f14c2e60c4d0c1e258bd37fa92ffa79e0d51c79ebd3947e3098b9d9bfacfab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:06 UTC
Archive ID
76f14c2e60c4d0c1
SHA-256
76f14c2e60c4d0c1e258bd37fa92ffa79e0d51c79ebd3947e3098b9d9bfacfab
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1047
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068447

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

Two side-by-side square icons with silver backgrounds display a blue lowercase 'a' in pixelated font, differing slightly in stroke thickness and shadow placement.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,998 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,101, response 654

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • shadow placement shifts between frames (other, 0.80)
  • stroke thickness changes between frames (other, 0.80)
  • metallic sheen (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • lowercase a (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • stroke thickness changes between frames
  • shadow placement shifts between frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue lowercase 'a' changes from thick-stroked to thin-stroked with corresponding shadow placement shifts between

Colors

  • silver
  • blue

Composition

  • square frame
  • centered subject
  • two- layout

Dense Caption

The left icon features a solid blue lowercase 'a' with thick strokes on a silver background; the right icon shows a thinner-stroked version of the same letter. Both icons have a metallic sheen with subtle gradients suggesting depth. The left icon's 'a' has a darker shadow beneath it, while the right icon's shadow is lighter and positioned differently. Pixelation is visible in both letters and backgrounds.

Description

Two side-by-side square icons with silver backgrounds display a blue lowercase 'a' in pixelated font, differing slightly in stroke thickness and shadow placement.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Profile Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL profiles
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Profile Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL profiles
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue a silver background
  • pixelated a animation
  • thick stroke vs thin stroke a
  • silver background blue letter

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The blue lowercase 'a' changes from thick-stroked to thin-stroked with corresponding shadow placement shifts between two frames.
  • quarantined composition: two-panel layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • metallic sheen

Subjects

  • lowercase a

Visible Text

  • a

Wordwall

  • silver background
  • blue lowercase 'a'
  • pixelated font
  • thick stroke (left)
  • thin stroke (right)
  • darker shadow (left)
  • lighter shadow (right)
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:43 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 AOL Profile Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-profile-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Profile Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:06 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL profile icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/HCBHPU2FBCS3VMAFVMDTGN5UR35WGNDP.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/HCBHPU2FBCS3VMAFVMDTGN5UR35WGNDP.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027131152/http://www.geocities.com/solocuentos/apuntes/sc-ortografia.html