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Pixelated white blob with black outline and shadow, displaying three distinct expressions: neutral face, crying eyes, and open-mouthed surprise.

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Pixelated white blob with black outline and shadow, displaying three distinct expressions: neutral face, crying eyes, and open-mouthed surprise.

Pixelated white blob with black outline and shadow, displaying three distinct expressions: neutral face, crying eyes, and open-mouthed surprise. Animated 42×43 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • teardrops appear under eyes
  • mouth opens from square to oval
  • bubbles and question mark emerge

Animation Summary

The blob character transitions from neutral to crying with blue teardrops, then to surprised with open mouth and floating bubbles while retaining tears.

Composition

  • three views
  • central subject on plain background

Dense Caption

White pixelated blob-shaped character with rounded top and flat base. Top-left view shows closed eyes (two small black rectangles) and single square mouth on gray background. Top-right view adds two blue teardrop shapes under eyes. Bottom view shows wide-open oval mouth, blue tears beneath eyes, floating white bubbles, and a question mark above left side; all views share black outline and shadow.

Description

Pixelated white blob with black outline and shadow, displaying three distinct expressions: neutral face, crying eyes, and open-mouthed surprise.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sad
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): UPWDON7OOEWL6GY7C67LCKTYKG4WAFD7
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sad 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixelated blob crying
  • blob with blue tears surprise
  • pixel art sad confused icon
  • teardrop bubble question mark animation

Objects

  • question mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three views arranged in grid

Visually Supported Entities

  • blob character

Wordwall

  • white blob
  • black outline
  • gray background
  • closed eyes
  • square mouth
  • blue teardrops
  • open mouth
  • bubbles
  • question mark

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
42×43 pixels
File size
747 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 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 00:02 UTC
Archive ID
0a4eb7e22156ce01
SHA-256
0a4eb7e22156ce01f671da609375ef51fb32f44a2b7e1f675e07c16a08451a19
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085256

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated white blob with black outline and shadow, displaying three distinct expressions: neutral face, crying eyes, and open-mouthed surprise.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 14:03 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,678 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,069, response 742

Review tags

  • confused (action, 0.80)
  • crying (action, 0.80)
  • surprised (action, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • bubbles (object, 0.80)
  • question mark (object, 0.80)
  • teardrops (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • simple shapes (style, 0.80)
  • blob character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • crying
  • surprised
  • confused

Animation

  • teardrops appear under eyes
  • mouth opens from square to oval
  • bubbles and question mark emerge

Animation Summary

The blob character transitions from neutral to crying with blue teardrops, then to surprised with open mouth and floating bubbles while retaining tears.

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • blue

Composition

  • three views
  • central subject on plain background

Dense Caption

White pixelated blob-shaped character with rounded top and flat base. Top-left view shows closed eyes (two small black rectangles) and single square mouth on gray background. Top-right view adds two blue teardrop shapes under eyes. Bottom view shows wide-open oval mouth, blue tears beneath eyes, floating white bubbles, and a question mark above left side; all views share black outline and shadow.

Description

Pixelated white blob with black outline and shadow, displaying three distinct expressions: neutral face, crying eyes, and open-mouthed surprise.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sad
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): UPWDON7OOEWL6GY7C67LCKTYKG4WAFD7
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sad 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

Mood

  • sad
  • surprised
  • confused

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixelated blob crying
  • blob with blue tears surprise
  • pixel art sad confused icon
  • teardrop bubble question mark animation

Objects

  • teardrops
  • bubbles
  • question mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three views arranged in grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • simple shapes

Subjects

  • blob character

Visually Supported Entities

  • blob character

Wordwall

  • white blob
  • black outline
  • gray background
  • closed eyes
  • square mouth
  • blue teardrops
  • open mouth
  • bubbles
  • question mark
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:36 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)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-sad-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:02 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities sad icon candidates common in AIM expression culture
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