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Circular icon with orange border containing blue cityscape silhouette and stylized orange text over water, rendered in pixelated style.

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Circular icon with orange border containing blue cityscape silhouette and stylized orange text over water, rendered in pixelated style.

Circular icon with orange border containing blue cityscape silhouette and stylized orange text over water, rendered in pixelated style. 49×47 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX B…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central cityscape
  • text overlay on water

Dense Caption

Circular icon with orange border. Inside the circle: dark blue cityscape silhouette with tall buildings against light background. Below skyline: large orange stylized text reading "Mets" (partially obscured). Text sits on layered blue shapes representing water or landscape. Pixelation is visible throughout, indicating low-resolution rendering. No additional elements beyond these visual components.

Description

  • Circular icon with orange border containing blue cityscape silhouette and stylized orange text over water, rendered in pixelated style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddydepot
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): mets
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mets
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): images
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures Relaxed
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: BuddyDepot portal graphics and likely AIM buddy-icon material
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Named Entities

  • Mets

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mets cityscape icon
  • orange border blue text icon
  • pixelated mets logo
  • circular orange blue icon

Visible Text

  • Mets

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mets

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  • circular shape
  • orange border
  • blue cityscape silhouette
  • staple orange text
  • water-like layers
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures

Source title
mets
Category
buddyicons / images
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:13 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
mets
Category
buddyicons / images
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:21 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
49×47 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5cb19ffad6fc598ff33c74c2b31b70b3b7117cbe32ecb6a621b2e57c11521d44.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Archive ID
5cb19ffad6fc598f
SHA-256
5cb19ffad6fc598ff33c74c2b31b70b3b7117cbe32ecb6a621b2e57c11521d44
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067144

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Circular icon with orange border containing blue cityscape silhouette and stylized orange text over water, rendered in pixelated style.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 08:36 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,486 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 667

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • buildings (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • silhouette (style, 0.80)
  • stylized text (style, 0.80)
  • cityscape (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central cityscape
  • text overlay on water

Dense Caption

Circular icon with orange border. Inside the circle: dark blue cityscape silhouette with tall buildings against light background. Below skyline: large orange stylized text reading "Mets" (partially obscured). Text sits on layered blue shapes representing water or landscape. Pixelation is visible throughout, indicating low-resolution rendering. No additional elements beyond these visual components.

Description

  • Circular icon with orange border containing blue cityscape silhouette and stylized orange text over water, rendered in pixelated style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddydepot
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): mets
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mets
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): images
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures Relaxed
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: BuddyDepot portal graphics and likely AIM buddy-icon material
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Named Entities

  • Mets

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mets cityscape icon
  • orange border blue text icon
  • pixelated mets logo
  • circular orange blue icon

Objects

  • buildings
  • water

Style

  • pixelated
  • stylized text
  • silhouette

Subjects

  • cityscape
  • text

Visible Text

  • Mets

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mets

Wordwall

  • circular shape
  • orange border
  • blue cityscape silhouette
  • staple orange text
  • water-like layers
  • pixelated style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:36 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
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures (wayback-buddydepot-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / images
Alt
mets
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
BuddyDepot portal graphics and likely AIM buddy-icon material
Original: http://www.buddydepot.com/buddyicons/images/mets.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20031112011812id_/http://www.buddydepot.com:80/buddyicons/images/mets.gif 
Wayback CDX BuddyDepot.com GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddydepot-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / images
Alt
mets
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:21 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size BuddyDepot portal graphics and likely AIM buddy-icon candidates
Original: http://www.buddydepot.com/buddyicons/images/mets.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20031112011812id_/http://www.buddydepot.com:80/buddyicons/images/mets.gif