Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.

Permanent icon record

Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.

Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames. Animated 64×64 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • mouth changes between frown, open teeth, closed line
  • tear count varies (one or two tears)

Animation Summary

  • Mouth and tear count change across frames; consistent yellow circular base with glossy highlight.

Composition

  • six icons in two of three
  • identical base shape
  • varied facial features

Dense Caption

Yellow circular icon with glossy surface. Six distinct facial configurations: left eye black pupil with blue tear drop; right eye red-veined white sclera with dark blue shadow. Mouths vary between downturned frown (two instances), slightly open teeth (two instances), and closed tight line (two instances). Tears visible on three icons, one icon has single tear, two have double tears. All icons share identical yellow base color and glossy highlight at top.

Description

  • Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.

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): HIW3O65424HOY76GGEZMWQS7LI4VBDGM
  • 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

  • sad face icon
  • tearful eyes cartoon
  • yellow sad emoji animation
  • glossy yellow circle tears

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six icons in two rows of three

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • sad face
  • tearful eyes

Wordwall

  • yellow circular
  • glossy surface
  • sad expression
  • black pupil eye
  • red-veined eye
  • blue tear drop
  • downturned mouth
  • slightly open teeth
  • closed tight line

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

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 00:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
64×64 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/5189e511d672b3423c317719d82626b2bc7472a2c42fe9a5a78a4d6d6aa9a0aa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:17 UTC
Archive ID
5189e511d672b342
SHA-256
5189e511d672b3423c317719d82626b2bc7472a2c42fe9a5a78a4d6d6aa9a0aa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100486

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909160onnx/unsafe0.100486onnx/nsfw0.061032onnx/nsfl0.039454
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,204 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,128, response 739

Review tags

  • frowning (action, 0.80)
  • mouth movement (action, 0.80)
  • tearing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • tear drops (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • tearing
  • frowning
  • mouth movement

Animation

  • mouth changes between frown, open teeth, closed line
  • tear count varies (one or two tears)

Animation Summary

  • Mouth and tear count change across frames; consistent yellow circular base with glossy highlight.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • six icons in two of three
  • identical base shape
  • varied facial features

Dense Caption

Yellow circular icon with glossy surface. Six distinct facial configurations: left eye black pupil with blue tear drop; right eye red-veined white sclera with dark blue shadow. Mouths vary between downturned frown (two instances), slightly open teeth (two instances), and closed tight line (two instances). Tears visible on three icons, one icon has single tear, two have double tears. All icons share identical yellow base color and glossy highlight at top.

Description

  • Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.

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): HIW3O65424HOY76GGEZMWQS7LI4VBDGM
  • 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
  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sad face icon
  • tearful eyes cartoon
  • yellow sad emoji animation
  • glossy yellow circle tears

Objects

  • tear drops

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six icons in two rows of three

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • sad face
  • tearful eyes

Wordwall

  • yellow circular
  • glossy surface
  • sad expression
  • black pupil eye
  • red-veined eye
  • blue tear drop
  • downturned mouth
  • slightly open teeth
  • closed tight line
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "5189e511d672b3423c317719d82626b2bc7472a2c42fe9a5a78a4d6d6aa9a0aa",
  "description": "Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.",
  "denseCaption": "Yellow circular icon with glossy surface. Six distinct facial configurations: left eye black pupil with blue tear drop; right eye red-veined white sclera with dark blue shadow. Mouths vary between downturned frown (two instances), slightly open teeth (two instances), and closed tight line (two instances). Tears visible on three icons, one icon has single tear, two have double tears. All icons share identical yellow base color and glossy highlight at top.",
  "wordwall": [
    "yellow circular",
    "glossy surface",
    "sad expression",
    "black pupil eye",
    "red-veined eye",
    "blue tear drop",
    "downturned mouth",
    "slightly open teeth",
    "closed tight line"
  ],
  "visibleText": [],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "face"
  ],
  "actions": [
    "tearing",
    "frowning",
    "mouth movement"
  ],
  "objects": [
    "tear drops"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "yellow",
    "black",
    "blue",
    "red"
  ],
  "style": [
    "cartoon",
    "pixelated"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "six icons in two of three",
    "identical base shape",
    "varied facial features"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "sad",
    "melancholic"
  ],
  "animation": [
    "mouth changes between frown, open teeth, closed line",
    "tear count varies (one or two tears)"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "quarantined composition: six icons in two rows of three"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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): HIW3O65424HOY76GGEZMWQS7LI4VBDGM",
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [
    "sad face",
    "tearful eyes"
  ],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "Mouth and tear count change across frames; consistent yellow circular base with glossy highlight.",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "sad face icon",
    "tearful eyes cartoon",
    "yellow sad emoji animation",
    "glossy yellow circle tears"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "face",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: face"
    },
    {
      "tag": "tearing",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: tearing"
    },
    {
      "tag": "frowning",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: frowning"
    },
    {
      "tag": "mouth movement",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: mouth movement"
    },
    {
      "tag": "tear drops",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: tear drops"
    },
    {
      "tag": "cartoon",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cartoon"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "sad",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: sad"
    },
    {
      "tag": "melancholic",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: melancholic"
    },
    {
      "tag": "yellow",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: yellow"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "5189e511d672b3423c317719d82626b2bc7472a2c42fe9a5a78a4d6d6aa9a0aa",
        "description": "Six yellow circular icons with sad expressions, each showing different eye and mouth positions across frames.",
        "denseCaption": "Yellow circular icon with glossy surface. Six distinct facial configurations: left eye black pupil with blue tear drop; right eye red-veined white sclera with dark blue shadow. Mouths vary between downturned frown (two instances), slightly open teeth (two instances), and closed tight line (two instances). Tears visible on three icons, one icon has single tear, two have double tears. All icons share identical yellow base color and glossy highlight at top.",
        "wordwall": [
          "yellow circular",
          "glossy surface",
          "sad expression",
          "black pupil eye",
          "red-veined eye",
          "blue tear drop",
          "downturned mouth",
          "slightly open teeth",
          "closed tight line"
        ],
        "visibleText": [],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "face"
        ],
        "actions": [
          "tearing",
          "frowning",
          "mouth movement"
        ],
        "objects": [
          "tear drops"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "yellow",
          "black",
          "blue",
          "red"
        ],
        "style": [
          "cartoon",
          "pixelated"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "six icons in two rows of three",
          "identical base shape",
          "varied facial features"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "sad",
          "melancholic"
        ],
        "animation": [
          "mouth changes between frown, open teeth, closed line",
          "tear count varies (one or two tears)"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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): HIW3O65424HOY76GGEZMWQS7LI4VBDGM",
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [
          "sad face",
          "tearful eyes"
        ],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "Mouth and tear count change across frames; consistent yellow circular base with glossy highlight.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "sad face icon",
          "tearful eyes cartoon",
          "yellow sad emoji animation",
          "glossy yellow circle tears"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:54 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 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 00:17 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/HIW3O65424HOY76GGEZMWQS7LI4VBDGM.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/HIW3O65424HOY76GGEZMWQS7LI4VBDGM.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090829224126/http://geocities.com/tweetybird_200409/smileys1.html