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Yellow circular smiley faces with black eyes and red mouths in various expressions on a gray background.

Yellow circular smiley faces with black eyes and red mouths in various expressions on a gray background. Animated 38×38 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • icons
  • uniform spacing
  • circular shapes

Dense Caption

The image shows 25 yellow circular icons arranged in a grid. Each icon features a stylized smiley face with two black oval eyes and a mouth rendered in red pixels. The mouths vary across the icons: some are wide open smiles, others are closed or partially open, and several have jagged edges suggesting teeth or cracks. All faces share the same yellow base color and rounded shape. The background is solid gray. No text appears on any icon.

Description

  • Yellow circular smiley faces with black eyes and red mouths in various expressions on a gray background.

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 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 collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • GeoCities
  • buddy icons
  • instant-messenger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces with red mouths
  • pixelated smiley
  • varied mouth expressions yellow icons
  • gray background smiley collection

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid of 5x5 icons
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated smiley grid

Wordwall

  • yellow circular smiley faces
  • black oval eyes
  • red pixel mouths
  • varied mouth expressions
  • gray background
  • arrangement

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
38×38 pixels
File size
37 KB
Motion
Animated (24 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2ed4b638286bee60ac2001cb6982fe053a9ffec9bb6642e8c724da87d89374fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Archive ID
2ed4b638286bee60
SHA-256
2ed4b638286bee60ac2001cb6982fe053a9ffec9bb6642e8c724da87d89374fc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079002

OpenAI category scores

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

Yellow circular smiley faces with black eyes and red mouths in various expressions on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,773 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,645, response 632

Review tags

  • varying mouth expressions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • smiley faces (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • varying mouth expressions

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • icons
  • uniform spacing
  • circular shapes

Dense Caption

The image shows 25 yellow circular icons arranged in a grid. Each icon features a stylized smiley face with two black oval eyes and a mouth rendered in red pixels. The mouths vary across the icons: some are wide open smiles, others are closed or partially open, and several have jagged edges suggesting teeth or cracks. All faces share the same yellow base color and rounded shape. The background is solid gray. No text appears on any icon.

Description

  • Yellow circular smiley faces with black eyes and red mouths in various expressions on a gray background.

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 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 collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • GeoCities
  • buddy icons
  • instant-messenger

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces with red mouths
  • pixelated smiley
  • varied mouth expressions yellow icons
  • gray background smiley collection

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid of 5x5 icons
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated smiley grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • simplified

Subjects

  • smiley faces

Wordwall

  • yellow circular smiley faces
  • black oval eyes
  • red pixel mouths
  • varied mouth expressions
  • gray background
  • arrangement
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:48 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)
Raw JSON
Full source records (1)
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
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:36 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
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