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Two side-by-side red and white devices with blue screens; left screen shows Japanese text and a bird, right screen displays TV color bars.

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Two side-by-side red and white devices with blue screens; left screen shows Japanese text and a bird, right screen displays TV color bars.

Two side-by-side red and white devices with blue screens; left screen shows Japanese text and a bird, right screen displays TV color bars. Animated 80×80 GIF AIM buddy icon from G…

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Animation

  • screen content changes between frames: left device displays Japanese text and bird, right device shows TV color bars

Animation Summary

  • Screen content changes between frames: left device displays Japanese text and bird, right device shows TV color bars.

Composition

  • two devices side-by-side
  • identical frame design
  • left screen content differs from right screen

Dense Caption

Red and white device with three colored buttons (yellow, green, cyan) at bottom. Left screen: light blue background with black Japanese characters しはらくおまちください and small dark blue cloud-like shape; pixelated teal bird with yellow beak on right side of screen. Right screen: standard TV color bars pattern with vertical stripes in white, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, blue, plus lower section with alternating black/white/blue squares. Both devices have identical button layout and frame design.

Description

  • Two side-by-side red and white devices with blue screens; left screen shows Japanese text and a bird, right screen displays TV color bars.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: actors
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities TV Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities TV Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Japanese text bird screen
  • TV color bars screen
  • red white buttons yellow green cyan
  • pixelated teal bird

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • しはらくおまちください

Wordwall

  • red device
  • white base
  • three buttons
  • yellow button
  • green button
  • cyan button
  • light blue screen
  • Japanese text
  • teal bird
  • color bars
  • TV test pattern

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July 9, 2026

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Source title
GifCities
Category
march16 2001 / img
Era
GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:24 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities TV Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
march16 2001 / img
Era
GeoCities TV Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:28 UTC

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GifCities TV Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
march16 2001 / img
Era
GeoCities TV Avatar Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
80×80 pixels
File size
7.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/8705136728ffefa549b3f7b69e0fe421b6a24f85d26d59c4641a21a31228cb76.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:24 UTC
Archive ID
8705136728ffefa5
SHA-256
8705136728ffefa549b3f7b69e0fe421b6a24f85d26d59c4641a21a31228cb76
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078789

OpenAI category scores

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Two side-by-side red and white devices with blue screens; left screen shows Japanese text and a bird, right screen displays TV color bars.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 10:26 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,636 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 752

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • buttons (object, 0.80)
  • color bars (object, 0.80)
  • screen (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • bird (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • screen content changes between frames: left device displays Japanese text and bird, right device shows TV color bars

Animation Summary

  • Screen content changes between frames: left device displays Japanese text and bird, right device shows TV color bars.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • yellow
  • green
  • cyan
  • light blue
  • teal
  • black
  • magenta
  • blue
  • orange
  • purple

Composition

  • two devices side-by-side
  • identical frame design
  • left screen content differs from right screen

Dense Caption

Red and white device with three colored buttons (yellow, green, cyan) at bottom. Left screen: light blue background with black Japanese characters しはらくおまちください and small dark blue cloud-like shape; pixelated teal bird with yellow beak on right side of screen. Right screen: standard TV color bars pattern with vertical stripes in white, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, blue, plus lower section with alternating black/white/blue squares. Both devices have identical button layout and frame design.

Description

  • Two side-by-side red and white devices with blue screens; left screen shows Japanese text and a bird, right screen displays TV color bars.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: actors
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities TV Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities TV Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Japanese text bird screen
  • TV color bars screen
  • red white buttons yellow green cyan
  • pixelated teal bird

Objects

  • buttons
  • screen
  • color bars

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • bird
  • text characters

Visible Text

  • しはらくおまちください

Wordwall

  • red device
  • white base
  • three buttons
  • yellow button
  • green button
  • cyan button
  • light blue screen
  • Japanese text
  • teal bird
  • color bars
  • TV test pattern
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:57 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 (3)
GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-tv-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
march16 2001 / img
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:24 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities television buddy-icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4JZFFCJ42NXS2BA3AGX6UFMQLG3ME5LL.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4JZFFCJ42NXS2BA3AGX6UFMQLG3ME5LL.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027115739/http://geocities.com/March16_2001/img/tv.gif 
GifCities TV Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-tv-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities TV Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
march16 2001 / img
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:28 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities television icon candidates that may not use buddy-icon wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4JZFFCJ42NXS2BA3AGX6UFMQLG3ME5LL.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4JZFFCJ42NXS2BA3AGX6UFMQLG3ME5LL.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027115739/http://geocities.com/March16_2001/img/tv.gif 
GifCities TV Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-tv-avatar-small-mixed-fandom)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities TV Avatar Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
march16 2001 / img
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:49 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities television avatar candidates that overlap buddy-icon use
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4JZFFCJ42NXS2BA3AGX6UFMQLG3ME5LL.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4JZFFCJ42NXS2BA3AGX6UFMQLG3ME5LL.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027115739/http://geocities.com/March16_2001/img/tv.gif