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Two yellow smiley face icons side-by-side, one with simple black eyes and mouth, the other with 'LOL' text overlay on its face.

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Two yellow smiley face icons side-by-side, one with simple black eyes and mouth, the other with 'LOL' text overlay on its face.

Two yellow smiley face icons side-by-side, one with simple black eyes and mouth, the other with 'LOL' text overlay on its face. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal pair
  • centered text on right face

Dense Caption

Two circular yellow smiley faces positioned horizontally adjacent. Left icon: solid yellow fill, two vertical black oval eyes, single curved black line for a smiling mouth. Right icon: identical yellow fill and mouth shape as left; overlaid center text "LOL" in bold white letters with thick black outline, each letter has pixelated edges. Both icons have subtle gray border artifacts around perimeters.

Description

  • Two yellow smiley face icons side-by-side, one with simple black eyes and mouth, the other with 'LOL' text overlay on its face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080120141643984172946
  • 200801201418211172822635

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces with LOL text
  • two side-by-side smileys
  • LOL pixel art smiley
  • smiley face icons with white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray border artifacts present around icon perimeters

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • LOL

Wordwall

  • yellow smiley face
  • two side-by-side
  • black oval eyes
  • curved smiling mouth
  • LOL text overlay
  • white bold letters
  • thick black outline
  • pixelated edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080120141643984172946
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801201418211172822635
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
b1b52de8b678c1d0
SHA-256
b1b52de8b678c1d079e70f17e9c42aac1a2f35385cb5d85608fc94b60b01d9c8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087928

OpenAI category scores

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Two yellow smiley face icons side-by-side, one with simple black eyes and mouth, the other with 'LOL' text overlay on its face.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:52 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,932 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,190, response 735

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • simple cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • smiley faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal pair
  • centered text on right face

Dense Caption

Two circular yellow smiley faces positioned horizontally adjacent. Left icon: solid yellow fill, two vertical black oval eyes, single curved black line for a smiling mouth. Right icon: identical yellow fill and mouth shape as left; overlaid center text "LOL" in bold white letters with thick black outline, each letter has pixelated edges. Both icons have subtle gray border artifacts around perimeters.

Description

  • Two yellow smiley face icons side-by-side, one with simple black eyes and mouth, the other with 'LOL' text overlay on its face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080120141643984172946
  • 200801201418211172822635

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces with LOL text
  • two side-by-side smileys
  • LOL pixel art smiley
  • smiley face icons with white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray border artifacts present around icon perimeters

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • simple cartoon

Subjects

  • smiley faces

Visible Text

  • LOL

Wordwall

  • yellow smiley face
  • two side-by-side
  • black oval eyes
  • curved smiling mouth
  • LOL text overlay
  • white bold letters
  • thick black outline
  • pixelated edges
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Full source records (2)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20080120141643984172946
Archive entry
20080120141643984172946.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080120141643984172946.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080120141643984172946.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200801201418211172822635
Archive entry
200801201418211172822635.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801201418211172822635.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801201418211172822635.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016