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Pixelated orange circular face with wide eyes and neutral mouth, some with blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text.

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Pixelated orange circular face with wide eyes and neutral mouth, some with blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text.

Pixelated orange circular face with wide eyes and neutral mouth, some with blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Instant…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • speech bubble text changes from empty to 'HELP'

Animation Summary

The animation shows a static of six orange circular faces with wide eyes. Three faces have blue speech bubbles that change from empty to containing red 'HELP' text

Composition

  • six faces
  • three speech bubbles

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated orange circular faces with wide eyes and neutral mouths arranged in a grid. Three faces have blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text; one face has a blue speech bubble without text. All faces share the same orange skin tone, brown eyebrows, and white eyes with black pupils. The background is solid gray. The faces exhibit subtle variations in mouth shape and speech bubble presence.

Description

  • Pixelated orange circular face with wide eyes and neutral mouth, some with blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text.

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM-era
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive
  • instant messaging
  • instant-messenger
  • avatars
  • avatar
  • GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange face help speech bubble
  • pixelated help speech bubble
  • gray background orange face
  • blue speech bubble help text
  • six orange faces
  • help speech bubble animation
  • orange face neutral mouth
  • pixelated face speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata
  • quarantined animationSummary: The animation shows a static grid of six orange circular faces with wide eyes. Three faces have blue speech bubbles that change from empty to containing red 'HELP' text.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Visible Text

  • HELP

Wordwall

  • orange circular face
  • wide eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • blue speech bubble
  • red 'HELP' text
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • brown eyebrows
  • white eyes
  • black pupils

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Source & archive date

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 03:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/43a6c10cb4a45fe25f4db4f045ce0f0f2763eafc7cc9319bb8c5efeaa03fa615.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 03:27 UTC
Archive ID
43a6c10cb4a45fe2
SHA-256
43a6c10cb4a45fe25f4db4f045ce0f0f2763eafc7cc9319bb8c5efeaa03fa615
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087793

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915648onnx/unsafe0.087793onnx/nsfw0.046053onnx/nsfl0.041740
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated orange circular face with wide eyes and neutral mouth, some with blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,224 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,065, response 880

Review tags

  • speech bubble appears (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • blue speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • aim era (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • orange circular face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • speech bubble appears

Animation

  • speech bubble text changes from empty to 'HELP'

Animation Summary

The animation shows a static of six orange circular faces with wide eyes. Three faces have blue speech bubbles that change from empty to containing red 'HELP' text

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • red
  • gray
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • six faces
  • three speech bubbles

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated orange circular faces with wide eyes and neutral mouths arranged in a grid. Three faces have blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text; one face has a blue speech bubble without text. All faces share the same orange skin tone, brown eyebrows, and white eyes with black pupils. The background is solid gray. The faces exhibit subtle variations in mouth shape and speech bubble presence.

Description

  • Pixelated orange circular face with wide eyes and neutral mouth, some with blue speech bubbles containing red 'HELP' text.

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AIM-era
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive
  • instant messaging
  • instant-messenger
  • avatars
  • avatar
  • GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GifCities search result

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • neutral
  • urgent

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange face help speech bubble
  • pixelated help speech bubble
  • gray background orange face
  • blue speech bubble help text
  • six orange faces
  • help speech bubble animation
  • orange face neutral mouth
  • pixelated face speech bubble

Objects

  • blue speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata
  • quarantined animationSummary: The animation shows a static grid of six orange circular faces with wide eyes. Three faces have blue speech bubbles that change from empty to containing red 'HELP' text.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • AIM-era
  • buddy icon

Subjects

  • orange circular face

Visible Text

  • HELP

Wordwall

  • orange circular face
  • wide eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • blue speech bubble
  • red 'HELP' text
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • brown eyebrows
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 23:51 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)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:21 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 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 03:27 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/D4ILTBGUM6UAMWZDGQMUJIZIR7SGHCQT.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/D4ILTBGUM6UAMWZDGQMUJIZIR7SGHCQT.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025180134/http://geocities.com/torisstarburst/talkingmilies.html