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nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background

nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background. Animated 44×43 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search, GeoCit…

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Style

Color

Composition

  • three

Dense Caption

Nine identical pixelated capital 'A' characters arranged in three rows of three. Each 'A' features a light blue top section, dark brown middle section, and small blue accents at the bottom left and right corners. The background is solid medium gray. All nine instances show no visible differences between them.

Description

  • nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated A letter
  • blue brown gray A icons
  • nine identical A characters
  • low-resolution A

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of three
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: low-resolution A grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated A letter grid

Visible Text

  • A

Wordwall

  • capital A
  • pixelated
  • blue top
  • brown middle
  • gray background
  • nine identical copies
  • three of three

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
44×43 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bddab3602df46ba07213d14d7ef7ca5f0edcca68b591d96f41c35b424cb3725d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
bddab3602df46ba0
SHA-256
bddab3602df46ba07213d14d7ef7ca5f0edcca68b591d96f41c35b424cb3725d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.181566

OpenAI category scores

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

nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:10 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,706 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,066, response 565

Review tags

  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • medium gray (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • letter a (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark brown
  • medium gray

Composition

  • three

Dense Caption

Nine identical pixelated capital 'A' characters arranged in three rows of three. Each 'A' features a light blue top section, dark brown middle section, and small blue accents at the bottom left and right corners. The background is solid medium gray. All nine instances show no visible differences between them.

Description

  • nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated A letter
  • blue brown gray A icons
  • nine identical A characters
  • low-resolution A

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of nine identical pixelated 'A' letters with blue and brown coloration on a gray background.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of three
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: low-resolution A grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated A letter grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • letter 'A'

Visible Text

  • A

Wordwall

  • capital A
  • pixelated
  • blue top
  • brown middle
  • gray background
  • nine identical copies
  • three of three
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:41 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 AOL Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL icon candidates from pages that did not necessarily say buddy icon
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/LS34KTCIN4NL3UXFMVK7S5LUPIRJZYN5.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/LS34KTCIN4NL3UXFMVK7S5LUPIRJZYN5.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027110555/http://geocities.com/povitaly/siberia/pages/way.htm