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Yellow circular face with blue sunglasses, open mouth, and blue-and-white shoes, performing a walking animation with alternating raised feet.

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Yellow circular face with blue sunglasses, open mouth, and blue-and-white shoes, performing a walking animation with alternating raised feet.

Yellow circular face with blue sunglasses, open mouth, and blue-and-white shoes, performing a walking animation with alternating raised feet. Animated 100×82 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • left foot raised
  • right foot raised
  • both feet down

Animation Summary

  • Alternating left and right foot raised in walking motion with consistent facial expression and clothing.

Composition

  • centered

Dense Caption

Yellow circular face with blue-tinted sunglasses, white eyes with black pupils, open mouth showing red interior. Blue-and-white striped shoes with white soles. Yellow flower-shaped hands. White background. Animation sequence shows left foot raised in first frame, right foot raised in second frame, both feet down in third frame, left foot raised in fourth frame. All frames share identical facial features and clothing. No text present.

Description

Yellow circular face with blue sunglasses, open mouth, and blue-and-white shoes, performing a walking animation with alternating raised feet.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face blue sunglasses walking animation
  • blue white shoes yellow flower hands
  • open mouth blue sunglasses yellow face
  • walking animation blue white shoes
  • yellow flower hands blue sunglasses
  • blue white shoes open mouth
  • yellow face blue sunglasses
  • blue sunglasses yellow flower hands

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: repeated frames
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Style

  • cartoon
  • 2D

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • blue sunglasses
  • open mouth
  • blue-and-white shoes
  • yellow flower hands
  • white background
  • walking animation
  • left foot raised
  • right foot raised
  • both feet down

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:31 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 05:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
100×82 pixels
File size
42.4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 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 03:31 UTC
Archive ID
bd080e968a3cfb2d
SHA-256
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July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
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Yellow circular face with blue sunglasses, open mouth, and blue-and-white shoes, performing a walking animation with alternating raised feet.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 20:17 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,226 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 860

Review tags

  • both feet down (action, 0.80)
  • left foot raised (action, 0.80)
  • right foot raised (action, 0.80)
  • walking (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • blue and white shoes (subject, 0.80)
  • blue sunglasses (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow face (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow flower hands (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • walking
  • left foot raised
  • right foot raised
  • both feet down

Animation

  • left foot raised
  • right foot raised
  • both feet down

Animation Summary

  • Alternating left and right foot raised in walking motion with consistent facial expression and clothing.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered

Dense Caption

Yellow circular face with blue-tinted sunglasses, white eyes with black pupils, open mouth showing red interior. Blue-and-white striped shoes with white soles. Yellow flower-shaped hands. White background. Animation sequence shows left foot raised in first frame, right foot raised in second frame, both feet down in third frame, left foot raised in fourth frame. All frames share identical facial features and clothing. No text present.

Description

Yellow circular face with blue sunglasses, open mouth, and blue-and-white shoes, performing a walking animation with alternating raised feet.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face blue sunglasses walking animation
  • blue white shoes yellow flower hands
  • open mouth blue sunglasses yellow face
  • walking animation blue white shoes
  • yellow flower hands blue sunglasses
  • blue white shoes open mouth
  • yellow face blue sunglasses
  • blue sunglasses yellow flower hands

Objects

  • yellow flower hands

Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • 2D

Subjects

  • yellow face
  • blue sunglasses
  • blue-and-white shoes
  • yellow flower hands

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • blue sunglasses
  • open mouth
  • blue-and-white shoes
  • yellow flower hands
  • white background
  • walking animation
  • left foot raised
  • right foot raised
  • both feet down
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:58 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:28 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 (2)
GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:31 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square instant-messenger avatar candidates adjacent to AIM buddy icons
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4O5VP7WERWC6LGSARTT6ENE6XCZZY7KZ.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4O5VP7WERWC6LGSARTT6ENE6XCZZY7KZ.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027175530/http://hk.geocities.com/cuhk_med1994/getting_started.htm 
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 05:23 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/4O5VP7WERWC6LGSARTT6ENE6XCZZY7KZ.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4O5VP7WERWC6LGSARTT6ENE6XCZZY7KZ.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027175530/http://hk.geocities.com/cuhk_med1994/getting_started.htm