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Pixelated cartoon character with gray skin, red cap, black eye patch, and white teeth; blue sky background; text bubbles change across frames.

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Pixelated cartoon character with gray skin, red cap, black eye patch, and white teeth; blue sky background; text bubbles change across frames.

Pixelated cartoon character with gray skin, red cap, black eye patch, and white teeth; blue sky background; text bubbles change across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • mouth opens
  • mouth closes
  • head turns
  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Character's mouth opens and closes, head turns slightly left to right, and text bubbles change sequentially

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray-skinned cartoon character with black eye patch, red cap, and white teeth; blue sky background with light blue and white clouds; character's mouth opens and closes; text bubbles change across frames: 'AVAST!', 'YARR!', 'SCALAWAG!', 'AHoy!', 'GEE WIZ!'; character's head turns slightly left to right; red and white striped collar visible; pixelated rendering style; 5x5 grid of frames showing sequential animation.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with gray skin, red cap, black eye patch, and white teeth; blue sky background; text bubbles change across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • AIM
  • avatars
  • buddy icons
  • geocities
  • GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray cartoon character
  • red cap eye patch
  • blue sky clouds
  • AVAST YARR SCALAWAG AHoy GEE WIZ
  • pixelated nautical animation
  • animation
  • text bubbles mouth animation
  • gray skin white teeth

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's mouth opens and closes, head turns slightly left to right, and text bubbles change sequentially across 25 frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined composition: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 5x5 grid animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • AVAST!
  • YARR!
  • SCALAWAG!
  • AHoy!
  • GEE WIZ!

Wordwall

  • gray skin
  • red cap
  • black eye patch
  • white teeth
  • blue sky
  • clouds
  • text bubbles
  • AVAST!
  • YARR!
  • SCALAWAG!
  • AHoy!
  • GEE WIZ!
  • head turns
  • mouth opens
  • collar
  • pixelated
  • sequential animation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (25 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/876102c764004bd0042749e2e0b92c373f780101e5a64015297be48f7fc2a757.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Archive ID
876102c764004bd0
SHA-256
876102c764004bd0042749e2e0b92c373f780101e5a64015297be48f7fc2a757
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:05 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067411

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933979onnx/unsafe0.067411onnx/nsfw0.035543onnx/nsfl0.031868
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon character with gray skin, red cap, black eye patch, and white teeth; blue sky background; text bubbles change across frames.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,948 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,653, response 976

Review tags

  • head turns (action, 0.80)
  • mouth closes (action, 0.80)
  • mouth opens (action, 0.80)
  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nautical (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text bubbles (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth opens
  • mouth closes
  • head turns
  • text changes

Animation

  • mouth opens
  • mouth closes
  • head turns
  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Character's mouth opens and closes, head turns slightly left to right, and text bubbles change sequentially

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • light blue

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below character

Dense Caption

Gray-skinned cartoon character with black eye patch, red cap, and white teeth; blue sky background with light blue and white clouds; character's mouth opens and closes; text bubbles change across frames: 'AVAST!', 'YARR!', 'SCALAWAG!', 'AHoy!', 'GEE WIZ!'; character's head turns slightly left to right; red and white striped collar visible; pixelated rendering style; 5x5 grid of frames showing sequential animation.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with gray skin, red cap, black eye patch, and white teeth; blue sky background; text bubbles change across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • AIM
  • avatars
  • buddy icons
  • geocities
  • GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • playful
  • nautical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray cartoon character
  • red cap eye patch
  • blue sky clouds
  • AVAST YARR SCALAWAG AHoy GEE WIZ
  • pixelated nautical animation
  • animation
  • text bubbles mouth animation
  • gray skin white teeth

Objects

  • text bubbles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's mouth opens and closes, head turns slightly left to right, and text bubbles change sequentially across 25 frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined composition: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 5x5 grid animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • AVAST!
  • YARR!
  • SCALAWAG!
  • AHoy!
  • GEE WIZ!

Wordwall

  • gray skin
  • red cap
  • black eye patch
  • white teeth
  • blue sky
  • clouds
  • text bubbles
  • AVAST!
  • YARR!
  • SCALAWAG!
  • AHoy!
  • GEE WIZ!
  • head turns
  • mouth opens
  • collar
  • pixelated
  • sequential animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:54 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:24 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 AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-avatars-plural-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square AIM avatar candidates from pages using avatar wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/7WBPJ534BYNABOH2V4FY7QKM6V56CG46.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/7WBPJ534BYNABOH2V4FY7QKM6V56CG46.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091021143903/http://geocities.com/atlantisadoption/avatarlist.html