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Pixelated character with spiky hair holds rectangular sign; yellow, pink, and orange signs alternate with 'E-MAIL' text on yellow signs.

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Pixelated character with spiky hair holds rectangular sign; yellow, pink, and orange signs alternate with 'E-MAIL' text on yellow signs.

Pixelated character with spiky hair holds rectangular sign; yellow, pink, and orange signs alternate with 'E-MAIL' text on yellow signs. Animated 64×54 GIF AIM buddy icon from Gif…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Six identical pixelated characters with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and gray skin hold rectangular signs against a gray background. The signs alternate between solid yellow, solid pink, and solid orange. Three yellow signs display 'E-MAIL' in black pixelated text; the pink and orange signs are blank. Each character has two arms, two legs, and a rounded nose. The image is a static grid of six identical figures arranged in two rows of three.

Description

  • Pixelated character with spiky hair holds rectangular sign; yellow, pink, and orange signs alternate with 'E-MAIL' text on yellow signs.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): message-board
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): OIWJ5QBLZBUBXMR27AMP3OPDC5RJA757
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: forums
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: identity graphics
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance topic-coverage: message-board avatars

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • E-MAIL sign
  • yellow pink orange signs
  • pixelated character
  • gray background
  • six figures
  • closed eyes
  • spiky hair
  • 8-bit art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined composition: grid

Visible Text

  • E-MAIL

Wordwall

  • spiky hair
  • closed eyes
  • gray skin
  • yellow sign
  • pink sign
  • orange sign
  • E-MAIL text
  • gray background
  • six figures
  • two
  • three
  • pixelated
  • solid colors
  • blank signs
  • rounded nose
  • two arms
  • two legs

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
64×54 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/db6396f29ece237dabf8f6fe1082d95ef1afb79aeb91e396d05a3c660715d8e2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Archive ID
db6396f29ece237d
SHA-256
db6396f29ece237dabf8f6fe1082d95ef1afb79aeb91e396d05a3c660715d8e2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089850

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character with spiky hair holds rectangular sign; yellow, pink, and orange signs alternate with 'E-MAIL' text on yellow signs.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,211 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 746

Review tags

  • holds sign (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • sign (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holds sign

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • pink
  • orange
  • black

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Six identical pixelated characters with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and gray skin hold rectangular signs against a gray background. The signs alternate between solid yellow, solid pink, and solid orange. Three yellow signs display 'E-MAIL' in black pixelated text; the pink and orange signs are blank. Each character has two arms, two legs, and a rounded nose. The image is a static grid of six identical figures arranged in two rows of three.

Description

  • Pixelated character with spiky hair holds rectangular sign; yellow, pink, and orange signs alternate with 'E-MAIL' text on yellow signs.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): message-board
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): OIWJ5QBLZBUBXMR27AMP3OPDC5RJA757
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: forums
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: identity graphics
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance topic-coverage: message-board avatars

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

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  • E-MAIL sign
  • yellow pink orange signs
  • pixelated character
  • gray background
  • six figures
  • closed eyes
  • spiky hair
  • 8-bit art

Objects

  • sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined composition: grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Visible Text

  • E-MAIL

Wordwall

  • spiky hair
  • closed eyes
  • gray skin
  • yellow sign
  • pink sign
  • orange sign
  • E-MAIL text
  • gray background
  • six figures
  • two
  • three
  • pixelated
  • solid colors
  • blank signs
  • rounded nose
  • two arms
  • two legs
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:54 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)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:24 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 Message Board Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-message-board-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Message Board Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square message-board avatar candidates adjacent to buddy-icon culture
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/OIWJ5QBLZBUBXMR27AMP3OPDC5RJA757.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/OIWJ5QBLZBUBXMR27AMP3OPDC5RJA757.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090804030747/http://hk.geocities.com/wing_shing/mainleft.htm