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A pixelated character with red eyes and a scythe, wearing a hooded cloak, with the word BEWARE below.

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A pixelated character with red eyes and a scythe, wearing a hooded cloak, with the word BEWARE below.

A pixelated character with red eyes and a scythe, wearing a hooded cloak, with the word BEWARE below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mix…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • none

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image.

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated panels show a hooded figure with white face, red eyes, and a scythe. The figure has a hooded cloak with gray and white tones. The word BEWARE appears in pixelated text below each panel. The background is a gray patterned texture. The figure's mouth is slightly open, showing teeth. The image uses a limited color palette of gray, white, red, and brown. The panels are arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • A pixelated character with red eyes and a scythe, wearing a hooded cloak, with the word BEWARE below.

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported 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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hooded figure red eyes scythe BEWARE
  • pixel art BEWARE text
  • scythe hooded figure red eyes
  • BEWARE pixel art figure
  • red eyes scythe BEWARE
  • hooded figure BEWARE
  • pixel art scythe
  • BEWARE red eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Visible Text

  • BEWARE

Wordwall

  • hooded figure
  • red eyes
  • scythe
  • BEWARE text
  • gray patterned background
  • white face
  • teeth
  • pixelated
  • gray cloak
  • brown scythe handle
  • white hood
  • gray background
  • red pupils
  • teeth visible
  • scythe held
  • gray patterned texture
  • white teeth
  • red eye
  • BEWARE

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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 03:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b4cbabf5d19fc1ce677344f6d6b3f650fd29a194b2ff9877e4570336046e9fd5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:39 UTC
Archive ID
b4cbabf5d19fc1ce
SHA-256
b4cbabf5d19fc1ce677344f6d6b3f650fd29a194b2ff9877e4570336046e9fd5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135003

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.886090onnx/unsafe0.135003onnx/nsfw0.106241onnx/nsfl0.028762
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated character with red eyes and a scythe, wearing a hooded cloak, with the word BEWARE below.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 21:23 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,210 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,069, response 759

Review tags

  • holding scythe (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ominous (mood, 0.80)
  • warning (mood, 0.80)
  • scythe (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hooded figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding scythe

Animation

  • none

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • red
  • brown

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered figure
  • text below figure

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated panels show a hooded figure with white face, red eyes, and a scythe. The figure has a hooded cloak with gray and white tones. The word BEWARE appears in pixelated text below each panel. The background is a gray patterned texture. The figure's mouth is slightly open, showing teeth. The image uses a limited color palette of gray, white, red, and brown. The panels are arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • A pixelated character with red eyes and a scythe, wearing a hooded cloak, with the word BEWARE below.

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported 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 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

Mood

  • ominous
  • warning

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hooded figure red eyes scythe BEWARE
  • pixel art BEWARE text
  • scythe hooded figure red eyes
  • BEWARE pixel art figure
  • red eyes scythe BEWARE
  • hooded figure BEWARE
  • pixel art scythe
  • BEWARE red eyes

Objects

  • scythe

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • hooded figure

Visible Text

  • BEWARE

Wordwall

  • hooded figure
  • red eyes
  • scythe
  • BEWARE text
  • gray patterned background
  • white face
  • teeth
  • pixelated
  • gray cloak
  • brown scythe handle
  • white hood
  • gray background
  • red pupils
  • teeth visible
  • scythe held
  • gray patterned texture
  • white teeth
  • red eye
  • BEWARE
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:14 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 04:43 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 (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 03:39 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/2IFY3RDA5YZP7UQ7VFRUMQHCRLROVLC2.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/2IFY3RDA5YZP7UQ7VFRUMQHCRLROVLC2.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027090242/http://geocities.com/firetruckbabe/avatars.html