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A black-and-white pirate flag icon with a skull and crossed swords, displayed in multiple variations of brightness and contrast.

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A black-and-white pirate flag icon with a skull and crossed swords, displayed in multiple variations of brightness and contrast.

A black-and-white pirate flag icon with a skull and crossed swords, displayed in multiple variations of brightness and contrast. Animated 48×38 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities P…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • centered skull above crossed swords
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • no additional elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a static icon featuring a white skull centered above two crossed silver swords on a black background. The skull has hollow eye sockets, nasal cavity, and visible teeth. Each sword has a curved blade and hilt with crossguard. The icon appears in 15 distinct variations across the grid: some have high contrast with sharp edges, others show blurred or pixelated effects; some display brighter highlights on swords while others emphasize shadowed areas. All versions maintain identical composition of skull and crossed swords without additional elements.

Description

  • A black-and-white pirate flag icon with a skull and crossed swords, displayed in multiple variations of brightness and contrast.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected): pirates-caribbean
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Pirates Caribbean Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • pirates-caribbean
  • GifCities
  • AIM profiles
  • Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • geocities
  • icon
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull crossed swords black background
  • pirate flag icon monochrome
  • black and white skull sword icon
  • crossed silver swords skull
  • pixelated pirate symbol
  • monochrome skull sword
  • high contrast skull swords
  • blurred pixel art skull

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout contains 15 variations of the same icon; no motion observed in individual frames
  • quarantined retrieval: monochrome skull sword grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected): pirates-caribbean
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): UU7C3XWXGHI7GZ4XHP5FYIYSIFTHNPJY
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Pirates Caribbean Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Subjects

  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • pirate flag symbol

Wordwall

  • skull
  • crossed swords
  • black background
  • white skull
  • silver swords
  • high contrast
  • blurred effect
  • pixelated
  • bright highlights
  • shadowed areas

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Pirates Caribbean Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:22 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×38 pixels
File size
22.2 KB
Motion
Animated (15 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/7c/7c57447f95064e37ae2e45fa2c314ea16512b2bab58cf7bcbfeede796f6d867a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 01:22 UTC
Archive ID
7c57447f95064e37
SHA-256
7c57447f95064e37ae2e45fa2c314ea16512b2bab58cf7bcbfeede796f6d867a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
Run
1075
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100999

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920482onnx/unsafe0.100999onnx/nsfw0.069427onnx/nsfl0.031572
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A black-and-white pirate flag icon with a skull and crossed swords, displayed in multiple variations of brightness and contrast.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Run
50
Version
v5
Elapsed
25,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,073, response 977

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • ominous (mood, 0.80)
  • iconographic (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)
  • swords (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • silver

Composition

  • centered skull above crossed swords
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • no additional elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a static icon featuring a white skull centered above two crossed silver swords on a black background. The skull has hollow eye sockets, nasal cavity, and visible teeth. Each sword has a curved blade and hilt with crossguard. The icon appears in 15 distinct variations across the grid: some have high contrast with sharp edges, others show blurred or pixelated effects; some display brighter highlights on swords while others emphasize shadowed areas. All versions maintain identical composition of skull and crossed swords without additional elements.

Description

  • A black-and-white pirate flag icon with a skull and crossed swords, displayed in multiple variations of brightness and contrast.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected): pirates-caribbean
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Pirates Caribbean Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • pirates-caribbean
  • GifCities
  • AIM profiles
  • Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • geocities
  • icon
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • menacing
  • ominous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull crossed swords black background
  • pirate flag icon monochrome
  • black and white skull sword icon
  • crossed silver swords skull
  • pixelated pirate symbol
  • monochrome skull sword
  • high contrast skull swords
  • blurred pixel art skull

Objects

  • swords

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout contains 15 variations of the same icon; no motion observed in individual frames
  • quarantined retrieval: monochrome skull sword grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected): pirates-caribbean
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): UU7C3XWXGHI7GZ4XHP5FYIYSIFTHNPJY
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Pirates Caribbean Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • monochrome
  • pixel art
  • iconographic

Subjects

  • skull
  • swords

Visually Supported Entities

  • pirate flag symbol

Wordwall

  • skull
  • crossed swords
  • black background
  • white skull
  • silver swords
  • high contrast
  • blurred effect
  • pixelated
  • bright highlights
  • shadowed areas
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 02:45 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 Pirates Caribbean Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-pirates-caribbean-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-2000s Movie Fan Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:22 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities Pirates of the Caribbean icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UU7C3XWXGHI7GZ4XHP5FYIYSIFTHNPJY.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UU7C3XWXGHI7GZ4XHP5FYIYSIFTHNPJY.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025125421/http://geocities.com/marktherat/main.html