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Yellow-clad figure in mid-air pose against red background with 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark, showing subtle facial expression changes across frames.

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Yellow-clad figure in mid-air pose against red background with 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark, showing subtle facial expression changes across frames.

Yellow-clad figure in mid-air pose against red background with 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark, showing subtle facial expression changes across frames. Animated 90×90 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • facial expression shift
  • neutral to open-mouthed

Animation Summary

  • Subtle facial expression shift from neutral to open-mouthed across frames while maintaining consistent mid-air pose and background.

Composition

  • square frame
  • central figure
  • diagonal watermark

Dense Caption

Red square background with diagonal 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark text. Yellow martial arts uniform with black trim. Figure in mid-air pose with left arm extended forward, right arm bent back, legs bent at knees. Black shoes with gray soles. Facial features include dark hair, dark eyebrows, and mouth. Expression shifts from neutral to open-mouthed across frames. No visible props or additional symbols. Consistent composition across all nine frames.

Description

Yellow-clad figure in mid-air pose against red background with 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark, showing subtle facial expression changes across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: AIM

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow martial arts uniform red background
  • animation factory watermark
  • mid air pose
  • facial expression shift
  • buddy icon
  • martial arts avatar
  • red square background
  • yellow and black uniform

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • ANIMATION FACTORY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow uniform
  • black trim
  • mid-air pose
  • left arm extended
  • right arm bent
  • bent knees
  • black shoes
  • gray soles
  • dark hair
  • dark eyebrows
  • ANIMATION FACTORY watermark
  • facial expression shift
  • neutral to open-mouthed
  • consistent composition
  • no props
  • diagonal watermark
  • martial arts uniform
  • bent legs
  • extended arm

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
mi1798
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
90×90 pixels
File size
32.5 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/952482ad7efa44f797fc5fc182c03aae8707facaa21e4344ac499f0fd282913d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:23 UTC
Archive ID
952482ad7efa44f7
SHA-256
952482ad7efa44f797fc5fc182c03aae8707facaa21e4344ac499f0fd282913d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084776

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924500onnx/unsafe0.084776onnx/nsfw0.050515onnx/nsfl0.034261
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow-clad figure in mid-air pose against red background with 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark, showing subtle facial expression changes across frames.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,137 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 975

Review tags

  • arm bending (action, 0.80)
  • arm extension (action, 0.80)
  • facial expression shift (action, 0.80)
  • mid air pose (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • action oriented (mood, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • 3d rendered (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • martial arts (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mid-air pose
  • arm extension
  • arm bending
  • facial expression shift

Animation

  • facial expression shift
  • neutral to open-mouthed

Animation Summary

  • Subtle facial expression shift from neutral to open-mouthed across frames while maintaining consistent mid-air pose and background.

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • square frame
  • central figure
  • diagonal watermark

Dense Caption

Red square background with diagonal 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark text. Yellow martial arts uniform with black trim. Figure in mid-air pose with left arm extended forward, right arm bent back, legs bent at knees. Black shoes with gray soles. Facial features include dark hair, dark eyebrows, and mouth. Expression shifts from neutral to open-mouthed across frames. No visible props or additional symbols. Consistent composition across all nine frames.

Description

Yellow-clad figure in mid-air pose against red background with 'ANIMATION FACTORY' watermark, showing subtle facial expression changes across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

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  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: AIM

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Mood

  • dynamic
  • action-oriented

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow martial arts uniform red background
  • animation factory watermark
  • mid air pose
  • facial expression shift
  • buddy icon
  • martial arts avatar
  • red square background
  • yellow and black uniform

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Style

  • cartoon
  • 3D-rendered
  • martial arts

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • ANIMATION FACTORY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow uniform
  • black trim
  • mid-air pose
  • left arm extended
  • right arm bent
  • bent knees
  • black shoes
  • gray soles
  • dark hair
  • dark eyebrows
  • ANIMATION FACTORY watermark
  • facial expression shift
  • neutral to open-mouthed
  • consistent composition
  • no props
  • diagonal watermark
  • martial arts uniform
  • bent legs
  • extended arm
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:46 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 04:16 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 (1)
TagConf.Evidencemi17980.80gifcities-aim-avatars-plural-small-mixed · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · query-selected · observation-category
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
mi1798
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:23 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/5M626CWFOOSKPY6VWDEHW2VZ7EPYPKS3.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/5M626CWFOOSKPY6VWDEHW2VZ7EPYPKS3.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027114239/http://geocities.com/mi1798/4966418.gif