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A series of pink @ symbols in various 3D orientations with a glossy metallic texture, displayed on a gray background.

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A series of pink @ symbols in various 3D orientations with a glossy metallic texture, displayed on a gray background.

A series of pink @ symbols in various 3D orientations with a glossy metallic texture, displayed on a gray background. Animated 38×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Icon Sma…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Animation

  • continuous rotation through multiple angles
  • two vertical bar shapes appear in sequence

Animation Summary

  • The @ symbol rotates through multiple angles showing front, side, and angled views with two vertical bar shapes appearing in sequence.

Composition

  • multiple views of single object

Dense Caption

@ symbol rendered as a continuous looped ribbon; multiple views show rotation from front-facing to side and angled perspectives; two vertical bar shapes appear among the @ forms; all elements share consistent bright magenta coloration with gradient shading indicating curved surfaces; pixelated edges suggest low-resolution digital rendering; gray background is uniform across all frames.

Description

  • A series of pink @ symbols in various 3D orientations with a glossy metallic texture, displayed on a gray background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta 3D @ symbol
  • @ symbol rotation animation
  • glossy ribbon @ icon
  • multiple orientations magenta @

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Wordwall

  • @ symbol
  • magenta
  • 3D ribbon
  • glossy texture
  • multiple orientations
  • gray background
  • pixelated edges

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Source & archive date

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 16:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
38×40 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (8 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
e2d423f012a592d3
SHA-256
e2d423f012a592d3e568b316d312180bfac167a5d2cb39d3bbfce767545241b1
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 00:29 UTC
Run
1230
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000014

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

A series of pink @ symbols in various 3D orientations with a glossy metallic texture, displayed on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,929 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 630

Review tags

  • reorientation (action, 0.80)
  • rotation (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • ribbon like structure (object, 0.80)
  • continuous rotation through multiple angles (other, 0.80)
  • two vertical bar shapes appear in sequence (other, 0.80)
  • 3d rendering (style, 0.80)
  • glossy (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • vertical bar shapes (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rotation
  • reorientation

Animation

  • continuous rotation through multiple angles
  • two vertical bar shapes appear in sequence

Animation Summary

  • The @ symbol rotates through multiple angles showing front, side, and angled views with two vertical bar shapes appearing in sequence.

Colors

  • magenta
  • gray

Composition

  • multiple views of single object

Dense Caption

@ symbol rendered as a continuous looped ribbon; multiple views show rotation from front-facing to side and angled perspectives; two vertical bar shapes appear among the @ forms; all elements share consistent bright magenta coloration with gradient shading indicating curved surfaces; pixelated edges suggest low-resolution digital rendering; gray background is uniform across all frames.

Description

  • A series of pink @ symbols in various 3D orientations with a glossy metallic texture, displayed on a gray background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL
  • GeoCities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta 3D @ symbol
  • @ symbol rotation animation
  • glossy ribbon @ icon
  • multiple orientations magenta @

Objects

  • ribbon-like structure

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • 3D rendering
  • glossy
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • @ symbol
  • vertical bar shapes

Wordwall

  • @ symbol
  • magenta
  • 3D ribbon
  • glossy texture
  • multiple orientations
  • gray background
  • pixelated edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:41 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 16:54 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/QRBFOIFNK77QFWHJQTRWQCJRK7EMEV7F.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/QRBFOIFNK77QFWHJQTRWQCJRK7EMEV7F.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027061549/http://geocities.com/phreakbutterfly/home