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Two large red Chinese characters with yellow glow on gray background, four pink pixelated shapes below including two V's and a circle.

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Two large red Chinese characters with yellow glow on gray background, four pink pixelated shapes below including two V's and a circle.

Two large red Chinese characters with yellow glow on gray background, four pink pixelated shapes below including two V's and a circle. Animated 40×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCi…

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Style

Color

Composition

  • two large central characters
  • four small shapes below
  • horizontal arrangement of lower elements

Dense Caption

Gray background. Two large red Chinese characters: left character is 喜 (xǐ), right character is 莫 (mò). Both have bright yellow glowing outlines. Below the characters are four distinct pink pixelated shapes arranged horizontally: first shape is an inverted V, second is a smaller inverted V, third is a larger inverted V with rounded base, fourth is a circle. All elements are static.

Description

  • Two large red Chinese characters with yellow glow on gray background, four pink pixelated shapes below including two V's and a circle.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red Chinese characters yellow glow gray background pink shapes
  • 喜 莫 pixel art animation static
  • Chinese character 喜 Chinese character 莫
  • pink inverted V circle shapes

Visible Text

  • 喜
  • 莫

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chinese character 喜
  • Chinese character 莫

Wordwall

  • red Chinese character 喜
  • red Chinese character 莫
  • yellow glowing outline
  • gray background
  • pink pixelated shapes
  • inverted V shape
  • circle shape

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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 16:53 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
40×40 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
d6bac6fd9c6d426e
SHA-256
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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two large red Chinese characters with yellow glow on gray background, four pink pixelated shapes below including two V's and a circle.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:02 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,514 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 636

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • glowing outline (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • two large central characters
  • four small shapes below
  • horizontal arrangement of lower elements

Dense Caption

Gray background. Two large red Chinese characters: left character is 喜 (xǐ), right character is 莫 (mò). Both have bright yellow glowing outlines. Below the characters are four distinct pink pixelated shapes arranged horizontally: first shape is an inverted V, second is a smaller inverted V, third is a larger inverted V with rounded base, fourth is a circle. All elements are static.

Description

  • Two large red Chinese characters with yellow glow on gray background, four pink pixelated shapes below including two V's and a circle.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • 喜 莫 pixel art animation static
  • Chinese character 喜 Chinese character 莫
  • pink inverted V circle shapes

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  • pixel art
  • glowing outline
  • static image

Subjects

  • Chinese characters
  • pixelated shapes

Visible Text

  • 喜
  • 莫

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  • Chinese character 喜
  • Chinese character 莫

Wordwall

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  • red Chinese character 莫
  • yellow glowing outline
  • gray background
  • pink pixelated shapes
  • inverted V shape
  • circle shape
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:39 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 16:53 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
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