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A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a purple cartoon snail holding a yellow @ symbol, with varying facial expressions and body poses across frames.
A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a purple cartoon snail holding a yellow @ symbol, with varying facial expressions and body poses across frames. Animated 65×51 GIF AIM bud…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
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 05:36 UTC
GifCities AOL Buddy Small Mixed-Size Search
- Source title
- GifCities
- Category
- search / gifcities
- Era
- GeoCities AOL Buddy Personal Web Cross-Section
- Observed
- July 9, 2026 at 23:48 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 65×51 pixels
- File size
- 5.2 KB
- Motion
- Animated (6 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/95/957e4f3f4182d389a34c85b65991729aa68bbde14da266952981e8736a8569b0.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
- Archive ID
- 957e4f3f4182d389
- SHA-256
- 957e4f3f4182d389a34c85b65991729aa68bbde14da266952981e8736a8569b0
Content-safety assessments (2)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 06:45 UTC
- Run
- 106
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.143405
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 12, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
- Run
- 28
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-smart
- Overall label
- safe
- Overall score
- 0.950000
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a purple cartoon snail holding a yellow @ symbol, with varying facial expressions and body poses across frames.
- Reviewed
- July 12, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
- Run
- 28
- Version
- v3
- Elapsed
- 12,513 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 3,014, response 976
Review tags
- gray background (background, 0.95)
- yellow at symbol (object, 0.95)
- cartoon snail (subject, 0.95)
- purple snail (subject, 0.95)
- 6 frame contact sheet (layout, 0.90)
- email icon (subject, 0.90)
- pixel art animation (style, 0.85)
- drop shadows (composition, 0.80)
Actions
- holding @ symbol
- shifting head position
- changing eye expression
- adjusting body posture
Animation
- frame 0: head left, wide eyes
- frame 1: head center, squinting eyes
- frame 2: head right, smiling mouth
- frame 3: head left, smiling mouth
- frame 4: head center, squinting eyes
- frame 5: head right, neutral expression
Animation Summary
- Six-frame animation showing a purple snail holding an @ symbol with subtle facial and posture changes across frames.
Colors
- purple
- yellow
- pink
- blue
- gray
Composition
- 6-frame contact sheet layout
- solid gray background
- drop shadows beneath figures
Dense Caption
The image displays a 6-frame animation contact sheet of a stylized cartoon snail. The snail has a light purple shell and body, pink antennae tips, blue eyes with white highlights, and a pink mouth. It holds a large yellow @ symbol in its right arm. Each frame shows subtle variations: the snail's head position shifts left/right, eye expressions change (wide-eyed to squinting), and body posture adjusts slightly while maintaining the same pose relative to the @ symbol. The background is solid gray with visible drop shadows beneath each snail figure. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital art. All frames share identical color schemes, character design, and object placement except for minor facial/body adjustments between frames.
Description
A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a purple cartoon snail holding a yellow @ symbol, with varying facial expressions and body poses across frames.
Identity Hypotheses
- {"name":"AOL buddy icon mascot","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"@ symbol + early internet context"}
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- no visible text confirms 'GifCities' branding
- no explicit AOL logo present
Metadata Supported By Image
- yellow @ symbol aligns with email-related iconography common in early internet culture
Mood
- playful
- cheerful
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- purple snail holding @ symbol animation
- 6-frame contact sheet email icon
- cartoon snail yellow at symbol
Objects
- yellow @ symbol
Preprocessing Notes
- 6 sampled frames from source animation
- contact sheet layout 3x2
- gray transparency background visible in all frames
Safety Notes
- non-explicit cartoon character
- no nudity or explicit content
Source Metadata Interpretation
- source hints suggest 'GifCities' branding and 'aol-buddy-icon' context but do not specify character name or purpose
Style
- pixel art
- cartoon
- low-resolution digital rendering
Subjects
- purple cartoon snail
Visually Supported Entities
- email-themed cartoon character
Wordwall
- purple cartoon snail
- yellow @ symbol
- pink antennae tips
- blue eyes with white highlights
- pink mouth
- drop shadows
- gray background
- pixelated rendering
- 6-frame animation contact sheet
- head position shifts left-right
- eye expressions wide to squinting
- body posture adjustments
- light purple shell and body
- large yellow @ symbol held in right arm
Raw JSON
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}Full source records (2)
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 05:36 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/75DWPTAJWIHEAWC7KLPGDDEY4UY5VLT4.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/75DWPTAJWIHEAWC7KLPGDDEY4UY5VLT4.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090801065118/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/8765/ginaspagef.html
GifCities AOL Buddy Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-buddy-small-mixed)
- Kind
- static-gallery
- Era
- GeoCities AOL Buddy Personal Web Cross-Section
- Type
- Internet Archive GifCities search result
- Category
- search / gifcities
- Title
- GifCities
- Observed
- July 9, 2026 at 23:48 UTC
- Rights
- mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL buddy candidates that may not include icon wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/75DWPTAJWIHEAWC7KLPGDDEY4UY5VLT4.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/75DWPTAJWIHEAWC7KLPGDDEY4UY5VLT4.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090801065118/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/8765/ginaspagef.html