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Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions

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Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions

Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions. Animated 64×64 GIF AIM bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • eyes shift

Animation Summary

Character's eyes transition between open and closed states , showing variations in eye position and closure while maintaining consistent facial features and background

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes appears in a 3x3 grid of nine expressions. Top row: left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye closed, right eye closed. Middle row: left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue). Bottom row: left eye closed, right eye closed; left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue). All expressions show a small closed mouth. Character has straight bangs and smooth hair with subtle highlights. Background is solid white. Pixel rendering shows soft shading and rounded features.

Description

Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow-skinned character reddish-brown hair blue eyes
  • blue eyes closed eyes
  • nine expressions
  • yellow skin blue eyes
  • repeated character expressions
  • smooth hair subtle highlights
  • solid white background
  • cartoon style rounded features

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a grid of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's eyes transition between open and closed states across nine frames, showing variations in eye position and closure while maintaining consistent facial features and background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid nine expressions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • reddish-brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • straight bangs
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes
  • small closed mouth
  • solid white background
  • soft shading
  • rounded features
  • smooth hair
  • subtle highlights
  • nine expressions
  • bobbed hair

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:25 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:22 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
64×64 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36e47262671d3ada1ac41fe5281ead82f9ddc827d5cc9f036f38d47234c1632f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Archive ID
36e47262671d3ada
SHA-256
36e47262671d3ada1ac41fe5281ead82f9ddc827d5cc9f036f38d47234c1632f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114193

OpenAI category scores

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

Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
66
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 1,002

Review tags

  • eyes closed (action, 0.80)
  • eyes open (action, 0.80)
  • eyes shift (action, 0.80)
  • reddish brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • rounded features (style, 0.80)
  • soft shading (style, 0.80)
  • yellow skinned character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • eyes shift

Animation

  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • eyes shift

Animation Summary

Character's eyes transition between open and closed states , showing variations in eye position and closure while maintaining consistent facial features and background

Colors

  • yellow
  • reddish-brown
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes appears in a 3x3 grid of nine expressions. Top row: left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye closed, right eye closed. Middle row: left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue). Bottom row: left eye closed, right eye closed; left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue); left eye open (blue), right eye open (blue). All expressions show a small closed mouth. Character has straight bangs and smooth hair with subtle highlights. Background is solid white. Pixel rendering shows soft shading and rounded features.

Description

Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow-skinned character reddish-brown hair blue eyes
  • blue eyes closed eyes
  • nine expressions
  • yellow skin blue eyes
  • repeated character expressions
  • smooth hair subtle highlights
  • solid white background
  • cartoon style rounded features

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Yellow-skinned character with reddish-brown bobbed hair and blue eyes in a grid of nine expressions showing open eyes, closed eyes, and varied eye positions.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's eyes transition between open and closed states across nine frames, showing variations in eye position and closure while maintaining consistent facial features and background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid nine expressions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • rounded features
  • soft shading

Subjects

  • yellow-skinned character

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • reddish-brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • straight bangs
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes
  • small closed mouth
  • solid white background
  • soft shading
  • rounded features
  • smooth hair
  • subtle highlights
  • nine expressions
  • bobbed hair
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:49 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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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:19 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 (2)
GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square instant-messenger avatar candidates adjacent to AIM buddy icons
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/VHHYM6BTW6ACHUQNUO3EK4HVLMH2RFP4.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/VHHYM6BTW6ACHUQNUO3EK4HVLMH2RFP4.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090829224126/http://geocities.com/tweetybird_200409/smileys1.html 
GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-instant-messenger-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:22 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger avatar candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/VHHYM6BTW6ACHUQNUO3EK4HVLMH2RFP4.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/VHHYM6BTW6ACHUQNUO3EK4HVLMH2RFP4.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090829224126/http://geocities.com/tweetybird_200409/smileys1.html