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nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear

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nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear

nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear. Animated 62×58 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities…

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Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • circular cropping
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Nine distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top row: leftmost figure wears dark military uniform with yellow shoulder stripes and black mustache; second figure wears dark helmet with goggles and headphones; third figure wears red helmet with goggles and red uniform; fourth figure wears black helmet with green glowing eyes. Middle row: leftmost figure wears green gas mask; second figure wears blue helmet with silver visor; third figure wears green and white helmet with red cross; fourth figure wears dark helmet with yellow accents. Bottom row: leftmost figure has red face paint and green cap; second figure has green skin and red eyes; third figure has red eyes and brown beard; fourth figure wears dark mask with visible wires. All portraits use low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palettes, each cropped to head and shoulders.

Description

  • nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • military character portraits
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution avatars
  • character
  • military uniform goggles
  • green gas mask
  • red cross helmet
  • red eyes character

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates contact sheet or asset collection
  • quarantined description: Grid of nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 character grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Wordwall

  • military uniform
  • yellow shoulder stripes
  • black mustache
  • goggles
  • headphones
  • red helmet
  • green gas mask
  • blue helmet
  • red cross
  • green cap
  • red eyes
  • brown beard
  • green glowing eyes
  • wires
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • head and shoulders
  • limited color palette

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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 03:25 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
62×58 pixels
File size
24.9 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c619c3aaca1999475ae46fbbfd8d1b7fdc180d2710c7fe2d500a7c96379ca982.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Archive ID
c619c3aaca199947
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 24, 2026 at 22:58 UTC
Run
1336
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001564

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 01:03 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.083066

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.083066falseviolence/graphic0.009030falsesexual0.002794falseself-harm0.000545falseself-harm/intent0.000225falseself-harm/instructions0.000212falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
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1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.278023

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906759onnx/unsafe0.278023onnx/nsfw0.200652onnx/nsfl0.077371
Enrichment records (3)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
66
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,193 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,078, response 991

Review tags

  • goggles (object, 0.80)
  • headphones (object, 0.80)
  • helmet (object, 0.80)
  • alien (subject, 0.80)
  • astronaut (subject, 0.80)
  • cyborg (subject, 0.80)
  • humanoid (subject, 0.80)
  • mechanic (subject, 0.80)
  • military figure (subject, 0.80)
  • pilot (subject, 0.80)
  • robot (subject, 0.80)
  • soldier (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • brown
  • orange

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • circular cropping
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Nine distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top row: leftmost figure wears dark military uniform with yellow shoulder stripes and black mustache; second figure wears dark helmet with goggles and headphones; third figure wears red helmet with goggles and red uniform; fourth figure wears black helmet with green glowing eyes. Middle row: leftmost figure wears green gas mask; second figure wears blue helmet with silver visor; third figure wears green and white helmet with red cross; fourth figure wears dark helmet with yellow accents. Bottom row: leftmost figure has red face paint and green cap; second figure has green skin and red eyes; third figure has red eyes and brown beard; fourth figure wears dark mask with visible wires. All portraits use low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palettes, each cropped to head and shoulders.

Description

  • nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Avatars Plural Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Personal Web Cross-Section

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • serious
  • intense
  • military
  • futuristic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • military character portraits
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution avatars
  • character
  • military uniform goggles
  • green gas mask
  • red cross helmet
  • red eyes character

Objects

  • goggles
  • headphones
  • helmet
  • gas mask
  • red cross
  • wires

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates contact sheet or asset collection
  • quarantined description: Grid of nine pixelated character portraits with varied attire and expressions, including military uniforms, helmets, and futuristic gear.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 character grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro
  • video game

Subjects

  • military figure
  • soldier
  • pilot
  • astronaut
  • mechanic
  • alien
  • cyborg
  • robot
  • humanoid

Wordwall

  • military uniform
  • yellow shoulder stripes
  • black mustache
  • goggles
  • headphones
  • red helmet
  • green gas mask
  • blue helmet
  • red cross
  • green cap
  • red eyes
  • brown beard
  • green glowing eyes
  • wires
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • head and shoulders
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:47 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)
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:18 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 03:25 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/P2EXJOX5G6JMJFVD6DQIW2HXAPBDIXAR.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/P2EXJOX5G6JMJFVD6DQIW2HXAPBDIXAR.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091024140812/http://geocities.com/eliteterranforce/index1.html