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Pixelated blue hedgehog character on retro computer monitor with red text and arrow animations.

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Pixelated blue hedgehog character on retro computer monitor with red text and arrow animations.

Pixelated blue hedgehog character on retro computer monitor with red text and arrow animations. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Sonic Icon Small Mixed-Size Search…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • text 'BACK' blurs into arrow
  • arrow changes from solid to dotted
  • hedgehog head turns right

Animation Summary

  • Text 'BACK' blurs into left-pointing arrow, which transitions from solid to dotted lines while hedgehog head turns right.

Composition

  • monitors
  • central character focus

Dense Caption

Fourteen pixel-art monitors display a blue hedgehog character (Sonic) in motion. The top-left monitor shows 'BACK' in red block letters; adjacent monitors show the same text with increasing blur, then transition to solid red arrows pointing left. Lower rows show the hedgehog's head turning right while the arrow changes from solid to dotted lines and finally disappears. All monitors have gray frames on black backgrounds.

Description

  • Pixelated blue hedgehog character on retro computer monitor with red text and arrow animations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sonic
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): BFZWMIZRHYARK2AF5DX3MHWZRO6UD7WS
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sonic Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sonic Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Sonic blue hedgehog retro monitor
  • pixel art back text arrow animation
  • dotted line transition Sonic

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid of monitors

Visible Text

  • BACK

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sonic the Hedgehog character

Wordwall

  • blue hedgehog
  • retro monitor
  • red 'BACK' text
  • red arrow animation
  • dotted line transition
  • gray frame
  • black background
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Sonic Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Sonic Fan Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 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 01:14 UTC
Archive ID
c6cffd32f236ae3e
SHA-256
c6cffd32f236ae3ed4ceecf83283e114e1808fbf8458205276add37b0bc27f0a
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.268052

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

Pixelated blue hedgehog character on retro computer monitor with red text and arrow animations.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 12:41 UTC
Run
50
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,807 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 715

Review tags

  • arrow transitioning from solid to dotted (action, 0.80)
  • text changing to arrow (action, 0.80)
  • turning head (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • computer monitor (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro computer interface (style, 0.80)
  • hedgehog character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • turning head
  • text changing to arrow
  • arrow transitioning from solid to dotted

Animation

  • text 'BACK' blurs into arrow
  • arrow changes from solid to dotted
  • hedgehog head turns right

Animation Summary

  • Text 'BACK' blurs into left-pointing arrow, which transitions from solid to dotted lines while hedgehog head turns right.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • monitors
  • central character focus

Dense Caption

Fourteen pixel-art monitors display a blue hedgehog character (Sonic) in motion. The top-left monitor shows 'BACK' in red block letters; adjacent monitors show the same text with increasing blur, then transition to solid red arrows pointing left. Lower rows show the hedgehog's head turning right while the arrow changes from solid to dotted lines and finally disappears. All monitors have gray frames on black backgrounds.

Description

  • Pixelated blue hedgehog character on retro computer monitor with red text and arrow animations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sonic
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): BFZWMIZRHYARK2AF5DX3MHWZRO6UD7WS
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sonic Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance collection-attribute: fan
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan pages
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sonic Fan Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • dynamic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Sonic blue hedgehog retro monitor
  • pixel art back text arrow animation
  • dotted line transition Sonic

Objects

  • computer monitor

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid of monitors

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro computer interface

Subjects

  • hedgehog character

Visible Text

  • BACK

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sonic the Hedgehog character

Wordwall

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  • retro monitor
  • red 'BACK' text
  • red arrow animation
  • dotted line transition
  • gray frame
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  • pixel art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 02:27 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 Sonic Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-sonic-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Sonic Fan Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 01:14 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user/fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities Sonic icon candidates
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