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Animated sequence showing a stylized white 'A' character forming and transforming against dark background with brown frame.

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Animated sequence showing a stylized white 'A' character forming and transforming against dark background with brown frame.

Animated sequence showing a stylized white 'A' character forming and transforming against dark background with brown frame. Animated 35×43 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AIM Sc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • frame 0: partial vertical stroke
  • frame 1: horizontal crossbar added
  • frame 2: complete 'A' formed
  • frame 3: rightward tail extended
  • frame 4: small dot above right leg
  • frame 5: orange particle trail beneath

Animation Summary

  • Character 'A' forms from partial stroke to complete letter with added tail, dot, and particle trail.

Composition

  • centered character
  • consistent framing
  • sequential transformation

Dense Caption

Six sequential frames show a white, pixelated 'A' character on black background within brown wooden frame. Initial frame shows partial vertical stroke; second adds horizontal crossbar; third forms complete uppercase 'A'; fourth extends rightward tail; fifth adds small dot above right leg; sixth displays orange particle trail beneath the letter. All frames share identical dark background and brown frame.

Description

  • Animated sequence showing a stylized white 'A' character forming and transforming against dark background with brown frame.

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM Screen Name Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities AIM Screen Name Personal Web Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): screen-name

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized white A animation
  • pixelated character formation
  • brown frame black background
  • orange particle trail

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): screen-name
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): QX6SLIQUN7RE5EZULYE5QIC6VNMBZ2AA
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Screen Name Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Screen Name Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: identity graphics
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Visible Text

  • A

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  • white pixelated character
  • black background
  • brown wooden frame
  • sequential animation
  • vertical stroke
  • horizontal crossbar
  • rightward tail
  • small dot
  • orange particles

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AIM Screen Name Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AIM Screen Name Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
35×43 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e145773ad77d0d877432f899da6bb51413889846648d2f29c3216b90fd595dac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Archive ID
e145773ad77d0d87
SHA-256
e145773ad77d0d877432f899da6bb51413889846648d2f29c3216b90fd595dac
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105348

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924985onnx/unsafe0.105348onnx/nsfw0.070274onnx/nsfl0.035075
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated sequence showing a stylized white 'A' character forming and transforming against dark background with brown frame.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:32 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,932 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,081, response 794

Review tags

  • adding detail (action, 0.80)
  • emitting particles (action, 0.80)
  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • forming (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • black background (object, 0.80)
  • brown wooden frame (object, 0.80)
  • animated sequence (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized a character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • forming
  • extending
  • adding detail
  • emitting particles

Animation

  • frame 0: partial vertical stroke
  • frame 1: horizontal crossbar added
  • frame 2: complete 'A' formed
  • frame 3: rightward tail extended
  • frame 4: small dot above right leg
  • frame 5: orange particle trail beneath

Animation Summary

  • Character 'A' forms from partial stroke to complete letter with added tail, dot, and particle trail.

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • orange

Composition

  • centered character
  • consistent framing
  • sequential transformation

Dense Caption

Six sequential frames show a white, pixelated 'A' character on black background within brown wooden frame. Initial frame shows partial vertical stroke; second adds horizontal crossbar; third forms complete uppercase 'A'; fourth extends rightward tail; fifth adds small dot above right leg; sixth displays orange particle trail beneath the letter. All frames share identical dark background and brown frame.

Description

  • Animated sequence showing a stylized white 'A' character forming and transforming against dark background with brown frame.

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM Screen Name Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities AIM Screen Name Personal Web Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): screen-name

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized white A animation
  • pixelated character formation
  • brown frame black background
  • orange particle trail

Objects

  • brown wooden frame
  • black background

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): screen-name
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): QX6SLIQUN7RE5EZULYE5QIC6VNMBZ2AA
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AIM Screen Name Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AIM Screen Name Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: identity graphics
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated sequence

Subjects

  • stylized 'A' character

Visible Text

  • A

Wordwall

  • white pixelated character
  • black background
  • brown wooden frame
  • sequential animation
  • vertical stroke
  • horizontal crossbar
  • rightward tail
  • small dot
  • orange particles
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:51 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 Screen Name Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aim-screen-name-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AIM Screen Name Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AIM screen-name icon candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/QX6SLIQUN7RE5EZULYE5QIC6VNMBZ2AA.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/QX6SLIQUN7RE5EZULYE5QIC6VNMBZ2AA.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090728025956/http://geocities.com/johnb_sgs2/