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nine grayscale shapes arranged in three and three , with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically

nine grayscale shapes arranged in three and three , with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Sea…

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Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • central vertical text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image shows a 3x3 grid of grayscale shapes on a white background. The left column contains four circular gradient shapes with varying opacity. The middle column has four distinct shapes: a rounded 'P' at the top, a rounded 'A' in the middle, a rounded 'S' below it, and a vertical rectangle at the bottom. The right column mirrors the left column's circular gradients. The central vertical column displays the letters 'P', 'A', 'S', 'S' in bold, solid gray typeface. All shapes have soft edges and gradient transitions. The grid is evenly spaced with consistent cell dimensions.

Description

  • nine grayscale shapes arranged in three and three , with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: away messages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Away-Message Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AIM
  • away messages
  • buddy icons
  • icon
  • GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale
  • central PASS
  • buddy icon
  • geometric shapes
  • white background
  • soft edges
  • gradient transitions

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: A grid of nine grayscale shapes arranged in three rows and three columns, with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically.
  • quarantined wordwall: evenly spaced cells
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical columns
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grayscale grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: away messages
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Away-Message Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Visible Text

  • P
  • A
  • S

Wordwall

  • grayscale shapes
  • circular gradients
  • rounded 'P'
  • rounded 'A'
  • rounded 'S'
  • vertical rectangle
  • central 'PASS'
  • white background
  • soft edges
  • gradient transitions
  • evenly spaced

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM Away-Message Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.6 KB
Motion
Animated (16 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c92c56691d54ca8853857994d7ea0a9091d1d4e967b013deb3a2376fc49bd1b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:21 UTC
Archive ID
8c92c56691d54ca8
SHA-256
8c92c56691d54ca8853857994d7ea0a9091d1d4e967b013deb3a2376fc49bd1b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091073

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

nine grayscale shapes arranged in three and three , with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,856 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,068, response 846

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
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  • minimalist (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • central vertical text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image shows a 3x3 grid of grayscale shapes on a white background. The left column contains four circular gradient shapes with varying opacity. The middle column has four distinct shapes: a rounded 'P' at the top, a rounded 'A' in the middle, a rounded 'S' below it, and a vertical rectangle at the bottom. The right column mirrors the left column's circular gradients. The central vertical column displays the letters 'P', 'A', 'S', 'S' in bold, solid gray typeface. All shapes have soft edges and gradient transitions. The grid is evenly spaced with consistent cell dimensions.

Description

  • nine grayscale shapes arranged in three and three , with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: away messages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Away-Message Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AIM
  • away messages
  • buddy icons
  • icon
  • GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale
  • central PASS
  • buddy icon
  • geometric shapes
  • white background
  • soft edges
  • gradient transitions

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: A grid of nine grayscale shapes arranged in three rows and three columns, with central letters forming 'PASS' vertically.
  • quarantined wordwall: evenly spaced cells
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical columns
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grayscale grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: away messages
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Away-Message Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • grayscale
  • minimalist
  • geometric

Visible Text

  • P
  • A
  • S

Wordwall

  • grayscale shapes
  • circular gradients
  • rounded 'P'
  • rounded 'A'
  • rounded 'S'
  • vertical rectangle
  • central 'PASS'
  • white background
  • soft edges
  • gradient transitions
  • evenly spaced
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:44 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 04:15 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 Away Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-away-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM Away-Message Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:21 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square away-message icon candidates adjacent to buddy-icon culture
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/B3M5CFOHDVMMEK72VADI3KRHSZIT4ETU.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/B3M5CFOHDVMMEK72VADI3KRHSZIT4ETU.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090804134306/http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/5253/basso.html