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A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a of twelve static frames on a gray background

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A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a of twelve static frames on a gray background

A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a of twelve static frames on a gray background. Animated 33×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from Gif…

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Style

Color

Composition

  • three of four
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Twelve identical pixelated letter A shapes arranged in three rows of four. Each A features a vertical gradient transitioning from dark blue at the top to bright green at the bottom, with intermediate shades of cyan and light blue. The background is solid medium gray. All twelve instances share identical dimensions, position, color scheme, and rendering style; no visible differences exist between any frames.

Description

  • A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a of twelve static frames on a gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green gradient letter A
  • pixelated a shape
  • 12 identical blue to green a icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a grid of twelve static frames on a gray background.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated a shape grid

Style

  • gradient

Wordwall

  • letter A
  • gradient color transition
  • blue to green gradient
  • pixelated shape
  • gray background
  • 12 identical copies

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AOL 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 16:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
33×40 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a53d9029b7047f0a496c4e029de83fce3ed6675b4df4cd3c21b517380183afa1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
a53d9029b7047f0a
SHA-256
a53d9029b7047f0a496c4e029de83fce3ed6675b4df4cd3c21b517380183afa1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080529

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926096onnx/unsafe0.080529onnx/nsfw0.044686onnx/nsfl0.035843
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a of twelve static frames on a gray background

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,535 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,079, response 594

Review tags

  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • medium gray (color, 0.80)
  • gradient (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome gradient (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • letter a (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • cyan
  • light blue
  • bright green
  • medium gray

Composition

  • three of four
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Twelve identical pixelated letter A shapes arranged in three rows of four. Each A features a vertical gradient transitioning from dark blue at the top to bright green at the bottom, with intermediate shades of cyan and light blue. The background is solid medium gray. All twelve instances share identical dimensions, position, color scheme, and rendering style; no visible differences exist between any frames.

Description

  • A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a of twelve static frames on a gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green gradient letter A
  • pixelated a shape
  • 12 identical blue to green a icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A stylized letter A with gradient color transitions between blue and green, displayed in a grid of twelve static frames on a gray background.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated a shape grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • gradient
  • monochrome gradient

Subjects

  • letter A

Wordwall

  • letter A
  • gradient color transition
  • blue to green gradient
  • pixelated shape
  • gray background
  • 12 identical copies
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:40 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)
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Full source records (1)
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 8, 2026 at 16:54 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/FITLIMJCHUHT2ZUCE4WEDITFZ2RZZN45.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/FITLIMJCHUHT2ZUCE4WEDITFZ2RZZN45.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090725172833/http://br.geocities.com/letrademusica_p/p.htm