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Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a with text below each instance

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Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a with text below each instance

Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a with text below each instance. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes across frames

Composition

  • one empty
  • text below each character

Dense Caption

Blue cartoon character with large white-outlined eyes, blue pupils, and a red mouth; pink cheeks; white circular ears; blue body with white accents; repeated in a 4x4 grid with one empty cell; text "SPARDEL" in white lowercase letters on dark blue background below each character; background has light blue with white dots; no visible animation changes across frames.

Description

  • Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a with text below each instance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character spardel
  • spardel avatar
  • buddy icon spardel
  • pixel art spardel
  • spardel
  • blue cartoon spardel
  • spardel text
  • buddy

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • grid layout consistent across all frames
  • quarantined description: Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a grid with text below each instance.
  • quarantined wordwall: one empty cell
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined composition: one empty cell
  • quarantined composition: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: buddy icon grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 4x4 grid spardel

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • SPARDEL

Wordwall

  • blue cartoon character
  • large white-outlined eyes
  • blue pupils
  • red mouth
  • pink cheeks
  • white circular ears
  • blue body
  • white accents
  • SPARDEL text
  • dark blue background
  • light blue with white dots
  • one empty

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (14 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a498d263426698c1f9beb94294606232a10244330695d359fd153711590b0e46.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Archive ID
a498d263426698c1
SHA-256
a498d263426698c1f9beb94294606232a10244330695d359fd153711590b0e46
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077883

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923241onnx/unsafe0.077883onnx/nsfw0.046140onnx/nsfl0.031742
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a with text below each instance

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,515 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,077, response 819

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes across frames

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • pink

Composition

  • one empty
  • text below each character

Dense Caption

Blue cartoon character with large white-outlined eyes, blue pupils, and a red mouth; pink cheeks; white circular ears; blue body with white accents; repeated in a 4x4 grid with one empty cell; text "SPARDEL" in white lowercase letters on dark blue background below each character; background has light blue with white dots; no visible animation changes across frames.

Description

  • Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a with text below each instance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character spardel
  • spardel avatar
  • buddy icon spardel
  • pixel art spardel
  • spardel
  • blue cartoon spardel
  • spardel text
  • buddy

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • grid layout consistent across all frames
  • quarantined description: Blue cartoon character with large eyes and red mouth, repeated in a grid with text below each instance.
  • quarantined wordwall: one empty cell
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined composition: one empty cell
  • quarantined composition: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: buddy icon grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 4x4 grid spardel

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • blue cartoon character

Visible Text

  • SPARDEL

Wordwall

  • blue cartoon character
  • large white-outlined eyes
  • blue pupils
  • red mouth
  • pink cheeks
  • white circular ears
  • blue body
  • white accents
  • SPARDEL text
  • dark blue background
  • light blue with white dots
  • one empty
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:54 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 04:24 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 Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-avatars-plural-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square AIM avatar candidates from pages using avatar wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/7W2DMBPAB7OPRZ333JNQVJFOWUKY3E2E.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/7W2DMBPAB7OPRZ333JNQVJFOWUKY3E2E.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091026215358/http://www.geocities.com/firetruckbabe/avatars.html