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Four Teletubbies characters in rounded square frames with black backgrounds, each in distinct colors and poses.

Four Teletubbies characters in rounded square frames with black backgrounds, each in distinct colors and poses. Animated 86×69 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Buddy Icon Avatar…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • four separate frames
  • black background
  • rounded square borders

Dense Caption

Four Teletubbies characters displayed in separate rounded square frames against black backgrounds. Top-left: Tinky Winky in blue costume with large ears and a smiling expression. Top-right: Dipsy in yellow costume with orange accents and a slight smile. Bottom-left: Laa-Laa in orange costume with a raised arm and a neutral expression. Bottom-right: Po in red costume with a single antenna and a neutral expression. All characters have large round eyes and simple facial features. The image uses a pixelated rendering style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Four Teletubbies characters in rounded square frames with black backgrounds, each in distinct colors and poses.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po
  • blue yellow orange red Teletubbies
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po costumes
  • Teletubbies four characters
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po expressions
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po poses
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po backgrounds
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Buddy Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Style

  • cartoon

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tinky Winky
  • Dipsy
  • Laa-Laa
  • Po

Wordwall

  • Tinky Winky
  • Dipsy
  • Laa-Laa
  • Po
  • blue costume
  • yellow costume
  • orange costume
  • red costume
  • large round eyes
  • black background
  • rounded square frames
  • pixelated rendering
  • smiling expression
  • neutral expression
  • raised arm
  • single antenna
  • large ears
  • orange accents

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Buddy Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Buddy Icon Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
86×69 pixels
File size
10.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Archive ID
b5e3fa62e1f88ea1
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
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1136
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Four Teletubbies characters in rounded square frames with black backgrounds, each in distinct colors and poses.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 23:41 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,092 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,073, response 949

Review tags

  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • raised arm (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • antenna (object, 0.80)
  • costumes (object, 0.80)
  • ears (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dipsy (subject, 0.80)
  • laa laa (subject, 0.80)
  • po (subject, 0.80)
  • tinky winky (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • raised arm

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • four separate frames
  • black background
  • rounded square borders

Dense Caption

Four Teletubbies characters displayed in separate rounded square frames against black backgrounds. Top-left: Tinky Winky in blue costume with large ears and a smiling expression. Top-right: Dipsy in yellow costume with orange accents and a slight smile. Bottom-left: Laa-Laa in orange costume with a raised arm and a neutral expression. Bottom-right: Po in red costume with a single antenna and a neutral expression. All characters have large round eyes and simple facial features. The image uses a pixelated rendering style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Four Teletubbies characters in rounded square frames with black backgrounds, each in distinct colors and poses.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • cheerful
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po
  • blue yellow orange red Teletubbies
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po costumes
  • Teletubbies four characters
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po expressions
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po poses
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po backgrounds
  • Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa-Laa Po colors

Objects

  • antenna
  • ears
  • costumes

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Buddy Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • Tinky Winky
  • Dipsy
  • Laa-Laa
  • Po

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tinky Winky
  • Dipsy
  • Laa-Laa
  • Po

Wordwall

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  • Dipsy
  • Laa-Laa
  • Po
  • blue costume
  • yellow costume
  • orange costume
  • red costume
  • large round eyes
  • black background
  • rounded square frames
  • pixelated rendering
  • smiling expression
  • neutral expression
  • raised arm
  • single antenna
  • large ears
  • orange accents
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:46 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 05:12 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 Buddy Icon Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-buddy-icon-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Buddy Icon Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities graphics where buddy-icon and avatar terms overlap
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/SY4624BZNNGGIKIN6OTETIK64L7GFPQM.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/SY4624BZNNGGIKIN6OTETIK64L7GFPQM.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025063226/http://geocities.com/pbs_kid/Teletubbies.html 
GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-instant-messenger-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:39 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger avatar candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/SY4624BZNNGGIKIN6OTETIK64L7GFPQM.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/SY4624BZNNGGIKIN6OTETIK64L7GFPQM.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025063226/http://geocities.com/pbs_kid/Teletubbies.html