A 4-frame pixel art animation of a yellow cartoon character with pink cheeks, black eyes, and a closed mouth in various states of question marks and stars above its head.

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A 4-frame pixel art animation of a yellow cartoon character with pink cheeks, black eyes, and a closed mouth in various states of question marks and stars above its head.

A 4-frame pixel art animation of a yellow cartoon character with pink cheeks, black eyes, and a closed mouth in various states of question marks and stars above its head. Animated…

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Animation

  • frame 0: star and question mark visible; frame 1: only star visible; frame 2: star and question mark visible; frame 3: only star visible

Animation Summary

The animation alternates between two states across four frames: one where the character holds a glowing yellow star above its head while a blue question mark appears to the right, and another where only the star remains. The character's pose is static throughout all frames.

Composition

  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • consistent background across all frames

Dense Caption

The image shows four sequential frames of a small animated icon featuring a round yellow cartoon character with light green outlines. The character has solid black square eyes, a simple curved line for a mouth, and two pink plus-shaped blush marks on its cheeks. In the top-left frame (frame 0), the character holds a glowing yellow star above its head while a blue question mark appears to the right of its head; in the bottom-left frame (frame 2), this same configuration repeats with identical elements. The top-right frame (frame 1) shows the character holding only the yellow star without the question mark, and the bottom-right frame (frame 3) also displays the character with just the yellow star. All frames share a consistent gray background that appears transparent in the original context. The animation alternates between two states: one where both the star and blue question mark are visible above the head, and another where only the star remains. The character's pose is static across all frames except for the presence or absence of the question mark symbol. Pixel art style with blocky colors and minimal detail typical of early instant messaging icons.

Description

A 4-frame pixel art animation of a yellow cartoon character with pink cheeks, black eyes, and a closed mouth in various states of question marks and stars above its head.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown character | basis both | confidence low | evidence: generic cartoon design with question mark and star symbols

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • exact creator name 'kent19831226' not visible in pixels
  • specific 'GifCities' branding not present on the icon itself

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • kent19831226

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star question mark animation icon
  • pixel art character with pink blushes
  • 4 frame contact sheet yellow blue stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • 4 sampled animation frames arranged in a 2x2 contact sheet layout on gray background transparency

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon style with no nudity or graphic content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'GifCities' branding, possible 'kent19831226' creator reference, and 'aim-buddy-icon' context; these are non-authoritative but consistent with early AOL IM icon style

Visually Supported Entities

  • early AOL instant messaging icon style

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon character
  • round yellow face
  • light green outline
  • black square eyes
  • pink plus-shaped blush marks
  • closed mouth line
  • glowing yellow star above head
  • blue question mark to right of head
  • gray background transparency
  • pixel art animation
  • 4-frame contact sheet
  • frame 0: star and question mark visible
  • frame 1: only star visible
  • frame 2: star and question mark visible
  • frame 3: only star visible
  • static character pose
  • blocky pixel rendering
  • minimal facial features
  • yellow star with yellow glow
  • blue question mark symbol

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AIM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
kent19831226 1 / img / 008
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:50 UTC

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 13:38 UTC

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 14:40 UTC

GifCities AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:32 UTC

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:35 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
40×40 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9f05a2e3eec427218d07392b090fe13642a13ec3540e2105997a235f6576edb8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:08 UTC
Archive ID
9f05a2e3eec42721
SHA-256
9f05a2e3eec427218d07392b090fe13642a13ec3540e2105997a235f6576edb8
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068580

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.943474onnx/unsafe0.068580onnx/nsfl0.034474onnx/nsfw0.034106
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 21:30 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 4-frame pixel art animation of a yellow cartoon character with pink cheeks, black eyes, and a closed mouth in various states of question marks and stars above its head.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 21:30 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
12,966 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,009, response 1,095

Review tags

  • gray background transparency (background, 0.95)
  • pink plus shaped blushes (feature, 0.95)
  • 4 frame contact sheet (layout, 0.95)
  • glowing yellow star (object, 0.95)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.95)
  • yellow cartoon character (subject, 0.95)
  • blue question mark (symbol, 0.95)

Actions

  • holding glowing yellow star above head
  • question mark appears next to head (in some frames)

Animation

  • frame 0: star and question mark visible; frame 1: only star visible; frame 2: star and question mark visible; frame 3: only star visible

Animation Summary

The animation alternates between two states across four frames: one where the character holds a glowing yellow star above its head while a blue question mark appears to the right, and another where only the star remains. The character's pose is static throughout all frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • light green
  • black
  • pink
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • 2x2 contact sheet layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • consistent background across all frames

Dense Caption

The image shows four sequential frames of a small animated icon featuring a round yellow cartoon character with light green outlines. The character has solid black square eyes, a simple curved line for a mouth, and two pink plus-shaped blush marks on its cheeks. In the top-left frame (frame 0), the character holds a glowing yellow star above its head while a blue question mark appears to the right of its head; in the bottom-left frame (frame 2), this same configuration repeats with identical elements. The top-right frame (frame 1) shows the character holding only the yellow star without the question mark, and the bottom-right frame (frame 3) also displays the character with just the yellow star. All frames share a consistent gray background that appears transparent in the original context. The animation alternates between two states: one where both the star and blue question mark are visible above the head, and another where only the star remains. The character's pose is static across all frames except for the presence or absence of the question mark symbol. Pixel art style with blocky colors and minimal detail typical of early instant messaging icons.

Description

A 4-frame pixel art animation of a yellow cartoon character with pink cheeks, black eyes, and a closed mouth in various states of question marks and stars above its head.

Identity Hypotheses

  • unknown character | basis both | confidence low | evidence: generic cartoon design with question mark and star symbols

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • exact creator name 'kent19831226' not visible in pixels
  • specific 'GifCities' branding not present on the icon itself

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • kent19831226

Mood

  • curious
  • puzzled
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star question mark animation icon
  • pixel art character with pink blushes
  • 4 frame contact sheet yellow blue stars

Objects

  • glowing yellow star
  • blue question mark symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • 4 sampled animation frames arranged in a 2x2 contact sheet layout on gray background transparency

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon style with no nudity or graphic content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'GifCities' branding, possible 'kent19831226' creator reference, and 'aim-buddy-icon' context; these are non-authoritative but consistent with early AOL IM icon style

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • cartoon style

Subjects

  • round yellow cartoon character

Visually Supported Entities

  • early AOL instant messaging icon style

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon character
  • round yellow face
  • light green outline
  • black square eyes
  • pink plus-shaped blush marks
  • closed mouth line
  • glowing yellow star above head
  • blue question mark to right of head
  • gray background transparency
  • pixel art animation
  • 4-frame contact sheet
  • frame 0: star and question mark visible
  • frame 1: only star visible
  • frame 2: star and question mark visible
  • frame 3: only star visible
  • static character pose
  • blocky pixel rendering
  • minimal facial features
  • yellow star with yellow glow
  • blue question mark symbol
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GifCities AIM Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
kent19831226 1 / img / 008
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:50 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

GifCities Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-buddy-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 13:38 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities buddy-icon candidates with archived page provenance

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 14:40 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 AIM Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-icon-small-mixed)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM-Era Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:32 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM icon candidates beyond pages that explicitly said buddy icon

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-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 10, 2026 at 04:35 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL icon candidates from pages that did not necessarily say buddy icon