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Pixelated figure with teal outline and white face, brown eyes, orange smile, next to large maroon question mark on gray background.

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Pixelated figure with teal outline and white face, brown eyes, orange smile, next to large maroon question mark on gray background.

Pixelated figure with teal outline and white face, brown eyes, orange smile, next to large maroon question mark on gray background. Animated 80×80 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCitie…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned figure
  • right-aligned question mark
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Teal-outlined pixel art figure has a white facial area with two small square brown eyes and an orange curved mouth. The body consists of intersecting teal lines forming triangular shapes against a light gray background. To the right is a solid maroon question mark composed of blocky pixels, positioned vertically below the figure's head level.

Description

  • Pixelated figure with teal outline and white face, brown eyes, orange smile, next to large maroon question mark on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (query-selected): pregunton
  • observation category (query-selected): researchtriangle
  • observation category (query-selected): station
  • observation category (query-selected): 4126
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): OGG253WPIMWOZE546ORANGMDPQX72BO3
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Avatar
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal figure brown eyes orange smile maroon question mark gray background
  • pixel art figure with triangular body shapes
  • maroon question mark next to teal outline character
  • gray background pixelated art

Subjects

  • figure
  • question mark

Wordwall

  • teal outline
  • white face
  • brown square eyes
  • orange smile
  • maroon question mark
  • gray background
  • pixelated art style
  • triangular body shapes

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

GifCities AOL Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
researchtriangle / station / 4126 / pregunton
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:55 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
80×80 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:55 UTC
Archive ID
81f732d98b219d77
SHA-256
81f732d98b219d77ab95823624036b1b50157be01ac6cb78f20df2410c885e69
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:26 UTC
Run
1103
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089814

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated figure with teal outline and white face, brown eyes, orange smile, next to large maroon question mark on gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,119 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 686

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • maroon (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • question mark (subject, 0.80)

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  • teal
  • white
  • brown
  • orange
  • maroon
  • gray

Composition

  • left-aligned figure
  • right-aligned question mark
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Teal-outlined pixel art figure has a white facial area with two small square brown eyes and an orange curved mouth. The body consists of intersecting teal lines forming triangular shapes against a light gray background. To the right is a solid maroon question mark composed of blocky pixels, positioned vertically below the figure's head level.

Description

  • Pixelated figure with teal outline and white face, brown eyes, orange smile, next to large maroon question mark on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (query-selected): pregunton
  • observation category (query-selected): researchtriangle
  • observation category (query-selected): station
  • observation category (query-selected): 4126
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): OGG253WPIMWOZE546ORANGMDPQX72BO3
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Avatar
  • GeoCities

Mood

  • neutral
  • curious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixel art figure with triangular body shapes
  • maroon question mark next to teal outline character
  • gray background pixelated art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • figure
  • question mark

Wordwall

  • teal outline
  • white face
  • brown square eyes
  • orange smile
  • maroon question mark
  • gray background
  • pixelated art style
  • triangular body shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:17 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 Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
researchtriangle / station / 4126 / pregunton
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:55 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL avatar candidates from pages that may not say AIM explicitly
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