A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue ghost-like character with varying facial expressions against a gray background.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue ghost-like character with varying facial expressions against a gray background.

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue ghost-like character with varying facial expressions against a gray background. Animated 40×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCi…

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Animation

  • mouth shape changes between frames
  • eyes remain consistent across all frames
  • expression transitions from neutral to open mouth

Animation Summary

12-frame animation sequence showing a blue ghost-like character's changing mouth expressions across frames while maintaining consistent eye position and body orientation.

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • uniform spacing between frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of pixelated animation frames featuring a small, rounded blue character resembling a ghost or cartoon creature. Each frame shows the character from a front-facing perspective with subtle variations in expression and mouth shape across the sequence. The character has simple black dot eyes that remain consistent throughout most frames, while its mouth changes between closed (horizontal line), open (vertical rectangle), and slightly curved forms. A single exclamation mark appears above one of the rightmost frames. Each frame casts a faint gray shadow beneath it on the light gray background. The animation sequence progresses from left to right across each row, showing gradual facial expression transitions without significant body movement or additional props. The character maintains consistent blue coloring with black outlines throughout all visible frames. Pixelation is evident in the rendering style, typical of early digital art and retro game graphics. There are no visible text elements beyond the exclamation mark above one frame.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue ghost-like character with varying facial expressions against a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"ghost character","basis":"visible|both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"consistent blue rounded shape with simple facial features"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: search / gifcities
  • category: search / gifcities - implies generic source without specific content identification

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue ghost pixel art animation
  • 4x3 contact sheet blue character expressions
  • pixelated ghost mouth expression sequence

Objects

  • exclamation mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 12 sampled frames (4 columns x 3 rows)
  • source animation likely had more than 11 total frames based on sourceFrameCount
  • gray background is display context for transparency
  • each frame shows character with faint shadow beneath it

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative hints suggest 'GifCities' and 'lovely surplus / icon cartoon 1' but no specific character name or fandom identified in visible pixels

Visible Text

  • !

Visually Supported Entities

  • blue ghost-like cartoon character

Wordwall

  • blue ghost-like pixel character
  • 4x3 contact sheet grid
  • gray background
  • faint gray shadow beneath character
  • black dot eyes
  • horizontal mouth line
  • vertical rectangle mouth
  • slightly curved mouth
  • exclamation mark above rightmost frame
  • pixelated rendering style
  • consistent blue coloring
  • black outlines
  • no additional props or objects
  • facial expression transitions
  • static body position
  • retro digital art style
  • simple rounded shape
  • gray transparency background
  • frame-to-frame animation sequence
  • character maintains same size and orientation

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AIM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
lovely surplus / icon cartoon 1
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:49 UTC

GifCities AOL Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 13:31 UTC

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 13:31 UTC

GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:31 UTC

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:31 UTC

GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:34 UTC

GifCities IM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:35 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
40×40 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/8771a100d74b565e47886601e41e67dc5f95d722b5aeb5103c0e3bd98b535f41.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:08 UTC
Archive ID
8771a100d74b565e
SHA-256
8771a100d74b565e47886601e41e67dc5f95d722b5aeb5103c0e3bd98b535f41
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082752

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923696onnx/unsafe0.082752onnx/nsfw0.044495onnx/nsfl0.038257
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 21:10 UTC
Run
28
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue ghost-like character with varying facial expressions against a gray background.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 21:10 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
30,283 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,052, response 1,035

Review tags

  • blue ghost character (subject, 0.95)
  • gray background (background, 0.90)
  • 4x3 grid layout (composition, 0.90)
  • exclamation mark (object, 0.90)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.90)
  • simple rounded shape (subject, 0.90)
  • facial expression animation (animation, 0.85)
  • faint shadow effect (rendering, 0.85)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.85)

Actions

  • changing facial expressions

Animation

  • mouth shape changes between frames
  • eyes remain consistent across all frames
  • expression transitions from neutral to open mouth

Animation Summary

12-frame animation sequence showing a blue ghost-like character's changing mouth expressions across frames while maintaining consistent eye position and body orientation.

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • uniform spacing between frames

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 grid of pixelated animation frames featuring a small, rounded blue character resembling a ghost or cartoon creature. Each frame shows the character from a front-facing perspective with subtle variations in expression and mouth shape across the sequence. The character has simple black dot eyes that remain consistent throughout most frames, while its mouth changes between closed (horizontal line), open (vertical rectangle), and slightly curved forms. A single exclamation mark appears above one of the rightmost frames. Each frame casts a faint gray shadow beneath it on the light gray background. The animation sequence progresses from left to right across each row, showing gradual facial expression transitions without significant body movement or additional props. The character maintains consistent blue coloring with black outlines throughout all visible frames. Pixelation is evident in the rendering style, typical of early digital art and retro game graphics. There are no visible text elements beyond the exclamation mark above one frame.

Description

  • A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a blue ghost-like character with varying facial expressions against a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"ghost character","basis":"visible|both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"consistent blue rounded shape with simple facial features"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: search / gifcities
  • category: search / gifcities - implies generic source without specific content identification

Mood

  • neutral to slightly surprised

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue ghost pixel art animation
  • 4x3 contact sheet blue character expressions
  • pixelated ghost mouth expression sequence

Objects

  • exclamation mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 12 sampled frames (4 columns x 3 rows)
  • source animation likely had more than 11 total frames based on sourceFrameCount
  • gray background is display context for transparency
  • each frame shows character with faint shadow beneath it

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative hints suggest 'GifCities' and 'lovely surplus / icon cartoon 1' but no specific character name or fandom identified in visible pixels

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital art
  • cartoon style

Subjects

  • blue ghost-like character

Visible Text

  • !

Visually Supported Entities

  • blue ghost-like cartoon character

Wordwall

  • blue ghost-like pixel character
  • 4x3 contact sheet grid
  • gray background
  • faint gray shadow beneath character
  • black dot eyes
  • horizontal mouth line
  • vertical rectangle mouth
  • slightly curved mouth
  • exclamation mark above rightmost frame
  • pixelated rendering style
  • consistent blue coloring
  • black outlines
  • no additional props or objects
  • facial expression transitions
  • static body position
  • retro digital art style
  • simple rounded shape
  • gray transparency background
  • frame-to-frame animation sequence
  • character maintains same size and orientation
Raw JSON
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GifCities AIM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
lovely surplus / icon cartoon 1
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:49 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

GifCities AOL Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 13:31 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 13:31 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

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
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:31 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

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL icon candidates from pages that did not necessarily say buddy icon

GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities instant-messenger icon candidates that may not mention AIM or AOL directly

GifCities IM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-im-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:35 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities IM icon candidates with terse period wording