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Four identical orange circular heads with red collars, each showing different facial expressions including smiling and mouthed red shapes.

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Four identical orange circular heads with red collars, each showing different facial expressions including smiling and mouthed red shapes.

Four identical orange circular heads with red collars, each showing different facial expressions including smiling and mouthed red shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from M…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • mouth changes from brown smile to red shape

Animation Summary

  • The mouth changes from a brown smile to a red shape across the sequence.

Composition

  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four identical orange circular heads with red collars arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left head has two white eyes with black pupils and a brown smile. Top-right head has two white eyes with black pupils and a red mouth shape. Bottom-left head has two white eyes with black pupils and a brown smile. Bottom-right head has two white eyes with black pupils and a red mouth shape. All heads have smooth gradients and pixelated edges. Background is solid gray.

Description

  • Four identical orange circular heads with red collars, each showing different facial expressions including smiling and mouthed red shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange heads red collars
  • white eyes black pupils
  • brown smiles red mouth shapes
  • smooth gradients
  • pixelated edges
  • solid gray background
  • mouth changes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 104
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Wordwall

  • orange circular heads
  • red collars
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • brown smiles
  • red mouth shapes
  • solid gray background
  • smooth gradients
  • pixelated edges

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/7812a21e134d73925f298bceb39d3bbde646529e337b4a59bc67c4037de24e82.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Archive ID
7812a21e134d7392
SHA-256
7812a21e134d73925f298bceb39d3bbde646529e337b4a59bc67c4037de24e82
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
1053
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081289

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920125onnx/unsafe0.081289onnx/nsfw0.047434onnx/nsfl0.033855
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical orange circular heads with red collars, each showing different facial expressions including smiling and mouthed red shapes.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,271 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 882

Review tags

  • mouthed red shapes (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • smooth gradients (style, 0.80)
  • orange heads (subject, 0.80)
  • red collars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • mouthed red shapes

Animation

  • mouth changes from brown smile to red shape

Animation Summary

  • The mouth changes from a brown smile to a red shape across the sequence.

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four identical orange circular heads with red collars arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left head has two white eyes with black pupils and a brown smile. Top-right head has two white eyes with black pupils and a red mouth shape. Bottom-left head has two white eyes with black pupils and a brown smile. Bottom-right head has two white eyes with black pupils and a red mouth shape. All heads have smooth gradients and pixelated edges. Background is solid gray.

Description

  • Four identical orange circular heads with red collars, each showing different facial expressions including smiling and mouthed red shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange heads red collars
  • white eyes black pupils
  • brown smiles red mouth shapes
  • smooth gradients
  • pixelated edges
  • solid gray background
  • mouth changes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 104
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • pixelated
  • smooth gradients

Subjects

  • orange heads
  • red collars

Wordwall

  • orange circular heads
  • red collars
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • brown smiles
  • red mouth shapes
  • solid gray background
  • smooth gradients
  • pixelated edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:27 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)
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Full source records (1)
My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites (wayback-my-buddy-icons-v4-2006-extracted-favorites)
Kind
local-directory
Era
2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
Type
safely extracted official animated Favorites library from an archived AIM utility
Title
104
Archive entry
104.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Rights
vendor-authored commercial utility assets; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
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