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A blue circular shape with a white center transitions through multiple states of distortion and fragmentation against a gray background.

A blue circular shape with a white center transitions through multiple states of distortion and fragmentation against a gray background. Animated 45×35 GIF AIM buddy icon from Gif…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • progressive distortion
  • fragmentation into partial arcs
  • shifting positions across frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue ring distorts into fragmented pieces, shifting from concentric rings to scattered partial arcs

Composition

  • four
  • five

Dense Caption

The icon begins as a solid blue ring on the left, then progressively distorts into fragmented segments. The fragments shift from concentric rings to scattered pieces, forming partial arcs and broken shapes across four rows. Blue and white colors dominate with varying opacity levels; some frames show pixelated edges and motion blur effects. The background remains consistently gray throughout all states.

Description

  • A blue circular shape with a white center transitions through multiple states of distortion and fragmentation against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): yahoo-messenger
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • yahoo-messenger
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue ring distortion
  • fragmented circular shape
  • gray background animation
  • pixelated motion blur

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • consistent background color
  • quarantined animationSummary: The blue ring distorts into fragmented pieces, shifting from concentric rings to scattered partial arcs across multiple frames.
  • quarantined composition: five columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): yahoo-messenger
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): SBAQUVUSHI4GXXZ2AHTJYMZMXBGQ6ZED
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Wordwall

  • blue ring
  • white center
  • distortion
  • fragmentation
  • gray background
  • pixelated edges
  • motion blur
  • partial arcs

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
45×35 pixels
File size
14.9 KB
Motion
Animated (20 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/99/992050d474e71b11658ebcabff405ec2c8ef68c56ee7446a80069c52f2df4411.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:46 UTC
Archive ID
992050d474e71b11
SHA-256
992050d474e71b11658ebcabff405ec2c8ef68c56ee7446a80069c52f2df4411
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099132

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919128onnx/unsafe0.099132onnx/nsfw0.065375onnx/nsfl0.033756
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A blue circular shape with a white center transitions through multiple states of distortion and fragmentation against a gray background.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:47 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,692 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,324, response 888

Review tags

  • distorts (action, 0.80)
  • fragments (action, 0.80)
  • shifts (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blue ring (object, 0.80)
  • gray background (object, 0.80)
  • white center (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • circular shape (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • distorts
  • fragments
  • shifts

Animation

  • progressive distortion
  • fragmentation into partial arcs
  • shifting positions across frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue ring distorts into fragmented pieces, shifting from concentric rings to scattered partial arcs

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • five

Dense Caption

The icon begins as a solid blue ring on the left, then progressively distorts into fragmented segments. The fragments shift from concentric rings to scattered pieces, forming partial arcs and broken shapes across four rows. Blue and white colors dominate with varying opacity levels; some frames show pixelated edges and motion blur effects. The background remains consistently gray throughout all states.

Description

  • A blue circular shape with a white center transitions through multiple states of distortion and fragmentation against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): yahoo-messenger
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • yahoo-messenger
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue ring distortion
  • fragmented circular shape
  • gray background animation
  • pixelated motion blur

Objects

  • blue ring
  • white center
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • consistent background color
  • quarantined animationSummary: The blue ring distorts into fragmented pieces, shifting from concentric rings to scattered partial arcs across multiple frames.
  • quarantined composition: five columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): yahoo-messenger
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): SBAQUVUSHI4GXXZ2AHTJYMZMXBGQ6ZED
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • circular shape

Wordwall

  • blue ring
  • white center
  • distortion
  • fragmentation
  • gray background
  • pixelated edges
  • motion blur
  • partial arcs
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:55 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 Yahoo Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-yahoo-messenger-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Messenger Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:46 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square Yahoo Messenger icon candidates adjacent to AIM-era identity graphics
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/SBAQUVUSHI4GXXZ2AHTJYMZMXBGQ6ZED.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/SBAQUVUSHI4GXXZ2AHTJYMZMXBGQ6ZED.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091028095010/http://www.geocities.com/youngdragonclass/reunionparty.html