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Animated sequence of starburst and cross-shaped icons with varying sizes, brightness levels, and pixelated edges on a gray background.

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Animated sequence of starburst and cross-shaped icons with varying sizes, brightness levels, and pixelated edges on a gray background.

Animated sequence of starburst and cross-shaped icons with varying sizes, brightness levels, and pixelated edges on a gray background. Animated 36×36 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • size variation
  • brightness pulsing

Animation Summary

  • The animation shows starburst and cross icons changing size and brightness across frames, with no visible text or additional elements.

Composition

  • multiple icons per frame

Dense Caption

The animation consists of multiple starburst and cross-shaped icons displayed in a grid layout. Starbursts have radiating points with central bright white highlights; crosses feature four equal arms. Icon sizes vary from small to large across frames. Brightness alternates between dimmed and fully illuminated states, creating a pulsing effect. Pixelation is visible on all edges due to low resolution. Background remains consistently gray throughout the sequence.

Description

  • Animated sequence of starburst and cross-shaped icons with varying sizes, brightness levels, and pixelated edges on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): x-men
  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): xanga
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): 4BW4Q6OIRFNRS4UZJTNM6WQAU33KCIZI
  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities X-Men Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: comics
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Superhero Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages

Metadata Only Entities

  • x-men
  • xanga
  • GifCities
  • AIM profiles
  • avatars
  • comics
  • fan pages
  • Early-2000s Superhero Fan Icon Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • starburst crosses gray background
  • pixelated icon animation
  • pulsing bright highlights
  • mixed-size monochrome icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Wordwall

  • starburst shapes
  • cross shapes
  • varying icon sizes
  • central bright highlights
  • pulsing brightness
  • pixelated edges
  • gray background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities X-Men Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
Early-2000s Superhero Fan Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:12 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
36×36 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (19 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a883346e33991121f9464a68d515a3780a59b1ddfbba76c5282ca7f4efce8e24.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 01:12 UTC
Archive ID
a883346e33991121
SHA-256
a883346e33991121f9464a68d515a3780a59b1ddfbba76c5282ca7f4efce8e24
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106460

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914599onnx/unsafe0.106460onnx/nsfw0.063876onnx/nsfl0.042585
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated sequence of starburst and cross-shaped icons with varying sizes, brightness levels, and pixelated edges on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 12:04 UTC
Run
50
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,067 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,338, response 751

Review tags

  • changing size (action, 0.80)
  • pulsing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • icons (object, 0.80)
  • size variation (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • crosses (subject, 0.80)
  • starbursts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pulsing
  • changing size

Animation

  • size variation
  • brightness pulsing

Animation Summary

  • The animation shows starburst and cross icons changing size and brightness across frames, with no visible text or additional elements.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • multiple icons per frame

Dense Caption

The animation consists of multiple starburst and cross-shaped icons displayed in a grid layout. Starbursts have radiating points with central bright white highlights; crosses feature four equal arms. Icon sizes vary from small to large across frames. Brightness alternates between dimmed and fully illuminated states, creating a pulsing effect. Pixelation is visible on all edges due to low resolution. Background remains consistently gray throughout the sequence.

Description

  • Animated sequence of starburst and cross-shaped icons with varying sizes, brightness levels, and pixelated edges on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): x-men
  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): xanga
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): 4BW4Q6OIRFNRS4UZJTNM6WQAU33KCIZI
  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities X-Men Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: comics
  • provenance era: Early-2000s Superhero Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages

Metadata Only Entities

  • x-men
  • xanga
  • GifCities
  • AIM profiles
  • avatars
  • comics
  • fan pages
  • Early-2000s Superhero Fan Icon Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • starburst crosses gray background
  • pixelated icon animation
  • pulsing bright highlights
  • mixed-size monochrome icons

Objects

  • icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • starbursts
  • crosses

Wordwall

  • starburst shapes
  • cross shapes
  • varying icon sizes
  • central bright highlights
  • pulsing brightness
  • pixelated edges
  • gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 02:24 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 (2)
GifCities X-Men Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-x-men-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-2000s Superhero Fan Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:12 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities X-Men icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4BW4Q6OIRFNRS4UZJTNM6WQAU33KCIZI.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4BW4Q6OIRFNRS4UZJTNM6WQAU33KCIZI.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027150715/http://geocities.com/aznpride4real/aboutme.htm 
GifCities Xanga Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-xanga-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Xanga Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:49 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square Xanga-style icon candidates from personal web pages
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4BW4Q6OIRFNRS4UZJTNM6WQAU33KCIZI.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4BW4Q6OIRFNRS4UZJTNM6WQAU33KCIZI.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027150715/http://geocities.com/aznpride4real/aboutme.htm