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Blue capsule-shaped object rotates clockwise across four circular frames with crosshairs on gray background.

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Blue capsule-shaped object rotates clockwise across four circular frames with crosshairs on gray background.

Blue capsule-shaped object rotates clockwise across four circular frames with crosshairs on gray background. Animated 60×60 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • rotation sequence

Animation Summary

  • Capsule rotates clockwise through four positions: horizontal, angled left-down, more vertical, nearly upright.

Dense Caption

Four blue capsules rotate clockwise in sequence: first horizontal, then angled left-down, then more vertical, finally nearly upright. Each appears within a thin blue circle containing intersecting crosshairs on light gray background. Capsules have glossy surface with white highlight and darker blue shading. Pixelation visible across all frames.

Description

  • Blue capsule-shaped object rotates clockwise across four circular frames with crosshairs on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): free
  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): user-icon
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM User Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Free AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: free AIM icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • aim
  • animated GIFs
  • buddy icons
  • free AIM icons
  • geocities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue capsule rotating
  • four circular frames crosshairs
  • glossy blue object gray background
  • pixelated animation sequence

Objects

  • circle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: crosshair grid
  • quarantined composition: grid of four frames

Wordwall

  • blue capsule
  • rotating clockwise
  • four circular frames
  • crosshair
  • light gray background
  • glossy surface
  • white highlight
  • darker blue shading
  • pixelated

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
60×60 pixels
File size
13.7 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82793d9745668c7091a8a5613e69a741bf8d96ccf659a9e993c942bb83fdf052.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
82793d9745668c70
SHA-256
82793d9745668c7091a8a5613e69a741bf8d96ccf659a9e993c942bb83fdf052
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079279

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.931605onnx/unsafe0.079279onnx/nsfw0.040517onnx/nsfl0.038763
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue capsule-shaped object rotates clockwise across four circular frames with crosshairs on gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 03:58 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,455 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,080, response 647

Review tags

  • rotating (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • circle (object, 0.80)
  • crosshairs (object, 0.80)
  • rotation sequence (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • capsule (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rotating

Animation

  • rotation sequence

Animation Summary

  • Capsule rotates clockwise through four positions: horizontal, angled left-down, more vertical, nearly upright.

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • white

Dense Caption

Four blue capsules rotate clockwise in sequence: first horizontal, then angled left-down, then more vertical, finally nearly upright. Each appears within a thin blue circle containing intersecting crosshairs on light gray background. Capsules have glossy surface with white highlight and darker blue shading. Pixelation visible across all frames.

Description

  • Blue capsule-shaped object rotates clockwise across four circular frames with crosshairs on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): free
  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): user-icon
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM User Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Free AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: free AIM icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • aim
  • animated GIFs
  • buddy icons
  • free AIM icons
  • geocities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue capsule rotating
  • four circular frames crosshairs
  • glossy blue object gray background
  • pixelated animation sequence

Objects

  • circle
  • crosshairs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: crosshair grid
  • quarantined composition: grid of four frames

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • capsule

Wordwall

  • blue capsule
  • rotating clockwise
  • four circular frames
  • crosshair
  • light gray background
  • glossy surface
  • white highlight
  • darker blue shading
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:38 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
Source semantic tags (3)
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Full source records (3)
GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
maxmadx
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM icon candidates beyond pages that explicitly said buddy icon
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/CEQZHMHNE3IKIEON5KRIWRGF4Z6TBSOB.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/CEQZHMHNE3IKIEON5KRIWRGF4Z6TBSOB.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20020404064609/http://geocities.com:80/maxmadx/blue_pill.gif 
GifCities AIM User Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-user-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM User-Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
maxmadx
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:43 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM user-icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/CEQZHMHNE3IKIEON5KRIWRGF4Z6TBSOB.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/CEQZHMHNE3IKIEON5KRIWRGF4Z6TBSOB.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20020404064609/http://geocities.com:80/maxmadx/blue_pill.gif 
GifCities Free AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-free-aim-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Free AIM Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
maxmadx
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:56 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities graphics from pages using free AIM icon wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/CEQZHMHNE3IKIEON5KRIWRGF4Z6TBSOB.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/CEQZHMHNE3IKIEON5KRIWRGF4Z6TBSOB.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20020404064609/http://geocities.com:80/maxmadx/blue_pill.gif