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A green and blue pixelated image of a smiling face with a pipe, transitioning to a swirling pattern with concentric circles.

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A green and blue pixelated image of a smiling face with a pipe, transitioning to a swirling pattern with concentric circles.

A green and blue pixelated image of a smiling face with a pipe, transitioning to a swirling pattern with concentric circles. Animated 72×72 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AIM I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • face transitions to swirling circles

Animation Summary

  • The animation begins with a pixelated face holding a pipe, then transitions into a swirling pattern of concentric circles.

Composition

  • central face
  • concentric circles

Dense Caption

The image shows a sequence of pixelated frames. The first frame displays a stylized face with a pipe, rendered in green and blue tones. Subsequent frames transition into a swirling pattern with concentric circles, maintaining the same color scheme. The animation progresses from a recognizable face to an abstract circular motion, with no additional text or objects present.

Description

  • A green and blue pixelated image of a smiling face with a pipe, transitioning to a swirling pattern with concentric circles.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Avatar/Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green blue pixelated face pipe
  • swirling concentric circles animation
  • AIM avatar pixel art
  • 1999 2009 pixel art animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Avatar/Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • green and blue color scheme
  • pixelated face
  • pipe in mouth
  • smiling expression
  • concentric circles
  • swirling motion
  • no text
  • static background

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AIM Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM Avatar/Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
72×72 pixels
File size
20 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/96985d5b60697200344e842fb4ba2a459d3fd00751b90f14da9a759cba5491a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Archive ID
96985d5b60697200
SHA-256
96985d5b60697200344e842fb4ba2a459d3fd00751b90f14da9a759cba5491a3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081847

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930954onnx/unsafe0.081847onnx/nsfw0.044772onnx/nsfl0.037075
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A green and blue pixelated image of a smiling face with a pipe, transitioning to a swirling pattern with concentric circles.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 23:44 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,800 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,076, response 769

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • swirling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • face transitions to swirling circles (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • pipe (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • swirling

Animation

  • face transitions to swirling circles

Animation Summary

  • The animation begins with a pixelated face holding a pipe, then transitions into a swirling pattern of concentric circles.

Colors

  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • central face
  • concentric circles

Dense Caption

The image shows a sequence of pixelated frames. The first frame displays a stylized face with a pipe, rendered in green and blue tones. Subsequent frames transition into a swirling pattern with concentric circles, maintaining the same color scheme. The animation progresses from a recognizable face to an abstract circular motion, with no additional text or objects present.

Description

  • A green and blue pixelated image of a smiling face with a pipe, transitioning to a swirling pattern with concentric circles.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Avatar/Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green blue pixelated face pipe
  • swirling concentric circles animation
  • AIM avatar pixel art
  • 1999 2009 pixel art animation

Objects

  • pipe

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Avatar/Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • stylized

Subjects

  • face
  • pipe

Wordwall

  • green and blue color scheme
  • pixelated face
  • pipe in mouth
  • smiling expression
  • concentric circles
  • swirling motion
  • no text
  • static background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:47 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 05:13 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 AIM Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-icon-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM Avatar/Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities graphics from pages that combine AIM, icon, and avatar wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/KNQL6QRXHGEQ3HPB6MDV7P7KVMXLXMJG.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/KNQL6QRXHGEQ3HPB6MDV7P7KVMXLXMJG.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027090648/http://geocities.com/Area51/Neptune/7110/