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Two yellow circular icons with gray borders, each showing a smiling face; left icon has closed eyes while right shows open eyes.

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Two yellow circular icons with gray borders, each showing a smiling face; left icon has closed eyes while right shows open eyes.

Two yellow circular icons with gray borders, each showing a smiling face; left icon has closed eyes while right shows open eyes. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eyebrow change from closed to open position

Animation Summary

  • Eyebrows transition from closed horizontal lines to arched open shapes while mouth remains static.

Composition

  • two side-by-side circular icons
  • identical base with eyebrow variation

Dense Caption

Yellow circular shape with white checkered pattern and dark gray border. Left icon: two curved black eyebrows above closed eye shapes (horizontal lines), wide dark gray mouth opening. Right icon: same yellow circle with identical border, but eyebrows are arched upward forming open eye shapes (curved lines) while mouth remains unchanged. Both icons share the same base design except for eyebrow configuration.

Description

  • Two yellow circular icons with gray borders, each showing a smiling face; left icon has closed eyes while right shows open eyes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow checkered smiley face
  • closed eyes vs open eyes emoji
  • pixelated yellow circle animation
  • smiling face with eyebrow change

Wordwall

  • yellow circular
  • white checkered pattern
  • dark gray border
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes
  • arched eyebrows
  • wide mouth

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July 10, 2026

GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
satlongthan
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
satlongthan
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/13/13f903ccb6211b81b4f18be7c0ebcb5e03003f4a3ad5abc1e16ba5906c8832ef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:29 UTC
Archive ID
13f903ccb6211b81
SHA-256
13f903ccb6211b81b4f18be7c0ebcb5e03003f4a3ad5abc1e16ba5906c8832ef
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.080291

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

Two yellow circular icons with gray borders, each showing a smiling face; left icon has closed eyes while right shows open eyes.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:11 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,975 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,118, response 669

Review tags

  • eyebrow movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • eyebrow change from closed to open position (other, 0.80)
  • checkered pattern (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simple shapes (style, 0.80)
  • smiling face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • eyebrow movement

Animation

  • eyebrow change from closed to open position

Animation Summary

  • Eyebrows transition from closed horizontal lines to arched open shapes while mouth remains static.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • two side-by-side circular icons
  • identical base with eyebrow variation

Dense Caption

Yellow circular shape with white checkered pattern and dark gray border. Left icon: two curved black eyebrows above closed eye shapes (horizontal lines), wide dark gray mouth opening. Right icon: same yellow circle with identical border, but eyebrows are arched upward forming open eye shapes (curved lines) while mouth remains unchanged. Both icons share the same base design except for eyebrow configuration.

Description

  • Two yellow circular icons with gray borders, each showing a smiling face; left icon has closed eyes while right shows open eyes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • buddy icons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow checkered smiley face
  • closed eyes vs open eyes emoji
  • pixelated yellow circle animation
  • smiling face with eyebrow change

Style

  • pixelated
  • checkered pattern
  • simple shapes

Subjects

  • smiling face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular
  • white checkered pattern
  • dark gray border
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes
  • arched eyebrows
  • wide mouth
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:46 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 (2)
GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-instant-messenger-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
satlongthan
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:29 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger buddy-icon candidates using explicit product wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UT5UEGLUNARKNFBNWYPOJQXJKRLAW4UP.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UT5UEGLUNARKNFBNWYPOJQXJKRLAW4UP.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20040530151713/http://www.geocities.com:80/satlongthan/lol_small.gif 
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
satlongthan
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:38 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UT5UEGLUNARKNFBNWYPOJQXJKRLAW4UP.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UT5UEGLUNARKNFBNWYPOJQXJKRLAW4UP.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20040530151713/http://www.geocities.com:80/satlongthan/lol_small.gif