A 6-frame animated contact sheet showing a purple cartoon snail holding a yellow @ symbol, with varying facial expressions and body poses across frames.

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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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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.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple snail holding @ symbol animation
  • 6-frame contact sheet email icon
  • cartoon snail yellow at 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

  • cartoon

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

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)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910345onnx/unsafe0.143405onnx/nsfw0.109011onnx/nsfl0.034394
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
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

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

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

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