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Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions

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Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions

Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions. Animated 35×35 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered faces
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Yellow circular face with solid black oval eyes. Top-left: curved black smile. Top-right: red lips with white highlights and black horizontal line across center. Bottom-left: large red lips with white highlights and black interior shape. Bottom-right: small red lips with white highlights and black horizontal line. All faces have thick black outlines on gray background.

Description

  • Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • instant messaging
  • buddy icons
  • personal web

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces
  • pixel art red lips mouth expressions
  • 8-bit yellow face black eyes gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a 2x2 grid on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow smiley faces 2x2 grid

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • black oval eyes
  • gray background
  • top-left curved smile
  • top-right red lips
  • bottom-left large red lips
  • bottom-right small red lips
  • white lip highlights

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July 10, 2026

GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
irene groundwater
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:44 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
35×35 pixels
File size
495 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:44 UTC
Archive ID
3ec796a0c3e89f37
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:39 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,066 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 636

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • smiley faces (subject, 0.80)

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  • yellow
  • black
  • red
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered faces
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Yellow circular face with solid black oval eyes. Top-left: curved black smile. Top-right: red lips with white highlights and black horizontal line across center. Bottom-left: large red lips with white highlights and black interior shape. Bottom-right: small red lips with white highlights and black horizontal line. All faces have thick black outlines on gray background.

Description

  • Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size
  • provenance collection-attribute: personal-web

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • instant messaging
  • buddy icons
  • personal web

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces
  • pixel art red lips mouth expressions
  • 8-bit yellow face black eyes gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four yellow pixelated smiley faces with black eyes arranged in a 2x2 grid on gray background, each displaying distinct mouth expressions.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
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Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

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  • smiley faces

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • black oval eyes
  • gray background
  • top-left curved smile
  • top-right red lips
  • bottom-left large red lips
  • bottom-right small red lips
  • white lip highlights
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:53 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 Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
irene groundwater
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:44 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities buddy-icon candidates using generic instant-messenger wording
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