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A sequence of blue and white abstract shapes with two central dots, transitioning through various rounded and angular forms.

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A sequence of blue and white abstract shapes with two central dots, transitioning through various rounded and angular forms.

A sequence of blue and white abstract shapes with two central dots, transitioning through various rounded and angular forms. Animated 61×60 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Insta…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sequential shape changes from circular to angular to teardrop to elongated forms

Animation Summary

The sequence shows a progression of abstract shapes transforming from circular to angular and elongated forms while maintaining consistent coloration and central dot placement.

Composition

  • horizontal of
  • consistent central dot placement

Dense Caption

The image shows a series of six distinct frames in a horizontal row. Each frame features an abstract shape composed of light gray and dark blue colors with two small dark blue dots near the center. The first three frames are circular or oval shapes with smooth edges; the fourth is more angular, resembling a rounded square; the fifth has a teardrop-like form; the sixth is elongated and narrow. All shapes maintain consistent coloration but vary in outline geometry.

Description

  • A sequence of blue and white abstract shapes with two central dots, transitioning through various rounded and angular forms.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messengers
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue white abstract shape dots
  • central dots blue gray animation
  • shape transformation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row of six frames
  • quarantined retrieval: shape transformation sequential frames

Wordwall

  • blue
  • white
  • two central dots
  • smooth edges
  • angular shape
  • teardrop form
  • elongated shape

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
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Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
61×60 pixels
File size
16.6 KB
Motion
Animated (20 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b2af03b37486bbbf78a1f15c5bacd8e0c021a54a912939d90ccabe92c24243d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
b2af03b37486bbbf
SHA-256
b2af03b37486bbbf78a1f15c5bacd8e0c021a54a912939d90ccabe92c24243d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084400

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A sequence of blue and white abstract shapes with two central dots, transitioning through various rounded and angular forms.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:23 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,960 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,332, response 674

Review tags

  • shape transformation (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • central dots (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shape transformation

Animation

  • sequential shape changes from circular to angular to teardrop to elongated forms

Animation Summary

The sequence shows a progression of abstract shapes transforming from circular to angular and elongated forms while maintaining consistent coloration and central dot placement.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal of
  • consistent central dot placement

Dense Caption

The image shows a series of six distinct frames in a horizontal row. Each frame features an abstract shape composed of light gray and dark blue colors with two small dark blue dots near the center. The first three frames are circular or oval shapes with smooth edges; the fourth is more angular, resembling a rounded square; the fifth has a teardrop-like form; the sixth is elongated and narrow. All shapes maintain consistent coloration but vary in outline geometry.

Description

  • A sequence of blue and white abstract shapes with two central dots, transitioning through various rounded and angular forms.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messengers
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue white abstract shape dots
  • central dots blue gray animation
  • shape transformation

Objects

  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row of six frames
  • quarantined retrieval: shape transformation sequential frames

Style

  • abstract
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • abstract shapes
  • central dots

Wordwall

  • blue
  • white
  • two central dots
  • smooth edges
  • angular shape
  • teardrop form
  • elongated shape
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:43 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)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Instant Messenger Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant-Messenger Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
bb k00l
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities instant-messenger icon candidates that may not mention AIM or AOL directly
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