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Pixelated character with monitor head, yellow limbs, and blue screen display showing various states including sunglasses and blank screen.

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Pixelated character with monitor head, yellow limbs, and blue screen display showing various states including sunglasses and blank screen.

Pixelated character with monitor head, yellow limbs, and blue screen display showing various states including sunglasses and blank screen. Animated 40×32 GIF AIM buddy icon from G…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • screen display changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • The character's screen display changes : sunglasses with red mouth, empty blue screen, grayed-out screen, and back to empty blue screen

Composition

  • character centered in each frame

Dense Caption

Four pixel-art frames of a single character: top-left shows a blue screen displaying black sunglasses and red mouth; top-right has an empty blue screen; bottom-left displays a grayed-out screen; bottom-right returns to the empty blue screen. The character has yellow arms, legs, silver body frame, green indicator light on right side, and white border around monitor head.

Description

  • Pixelated character with monitor head, yellow limbs, and blue screen display showing various states including sunglasses and blank screen.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Video Game Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: actors
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: console fandom
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Video-Game Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities Video Game Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • GeoCities Video-Game Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • gifcities
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy icon
  • unconfirmed namedEntities not promoted: buddy icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated monitor head character
  • yellow limbs blue screen
  • sunglasses screen display
  • grayed out screen animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The character's screen display changes across four frames: sunglasses with red mouth, empty blue screen, grayed-out screen, and back to empty blue screen.
  • quarantined composition: four-frame grid

Wordwall

  • monitor head
  • yellow limbs
  • blue screen
  • sunglasses display
  • grayed-out screen
  • green indicator light
  • silver body frame
  • white border

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities Video Game Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Video-Game Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
40×32 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a324821639c936faa337d2bbd5c3226f1a7ac9bc7f28101c615c3f2a8c0a700c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Archive ID
a324821639c936fa
SHA-256
a324821639c936faa337d2bbd5c3226f1a7ac9bc7f28101c615c3f2a8c0a700c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110944

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.931924onnx/unsafe0.110944onnx/nsfw0.074105onnx/nsfl0.036839
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Pixelated character with monitor head, yellow limbs, and blue screen display showing various states including sunglasses and blank screen.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 09:12 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,565 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 737

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue screen (object, 0.80)
  • grayed out screen (object, 0.80)
  • green indicator light (object, 0.80)
  • monitor head (object, 0.80)
  • yellow limbs (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • screen changes from sunglasses to blank to grayed-out

Animation

  • screen display changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • The character's screen display changes : sunglasses with red mouth, empty blue screen, grayed-out screen, and back to empty blue screen

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • silver
  • green
  • red
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • character centered in each frame

Dense Caption

Four pixel-art frames of a single character: top-left shows a blue screen displaying black sunglasses and red mouth; top-right has an empty blue screen; bottom-left displays a grayed-out screen; bottom-right returns to the empty blue screen. The character has yellow arms, legs, silver body frame, green indicator light on right side, and white border around monitor head.

Description

  • Pixelated character with monitor head, yellow limbs, and blue screen display showing various states including sunglasses and blank screen.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Video Game Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: actors
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: console fandom
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Video-Game Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities Video Game Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • GeoCities Video-Game Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • gifcities
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy icon
  • unconfirmed namedEntities not promoted: buddy icon

Mood

  • playful
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated monitor head character
  • yellow limbs blue screen
  • sunglasses screen display
  • grayed out screen animation

Objects

  • monitor head
  • yellow limbs
  • green indicator light
  • blue screen
  • grayed-out screen

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The character's screen display changes across four frames: sunglasses with red mouth, empty blue screen, grayed-out screen, and back to empty blue screen.
  • quarantined composition: four-frame grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Wordwall

  • monitor head
  • yellow limbs
  • blue screen
  • sunglasses display
  • grayed-out screen
  • green indicator light
  • silver body frame
  • white border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:43 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 (2)
GifCities TV Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-tv-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities TV Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities television buddy-icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/237TJRI6GU5SUCMQXHCEGO5V6YBNTWTS.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/237TJRI6GU5SUCMQXHCEGO5V6YBNTWTS.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027044418/http://us.geocities.com/s_analysis/mean.html 
GifCities Video Game Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-video-game-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Video-Game Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:34 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities video-game icon candidates that may not use buddy-icon wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/237TJRI6GU5SUCMQXHCEGO5V6YBNTWTS.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/237TJRI6GU5SUCMQXHCEGO5V6YBNTWTS.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027035624/http://hk.geocities.com/justin0712/flash.htm