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Pixelated circular face with closed eyes and blue tears, three variations showing different tear shapes against gray background.

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Pixelated circular face with closed eyes and blue tears, three variations showing different tear shapes against gray background.

Pixelated circular face with closed eyes and blue tears, three variations showing different tear shapes against gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • tear shape changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue tear shapes change between frames while all other visual elements remain constant.

Composition

  • three circular faces arranged in pattern on solid background

Dense Caption

Three pixel-art facial expressions on a solid light gray background. Each is a round beige head with black outline, two short black lines for closed eyes, and three thin black spiky hair tufts at top. Leftmost face has wide blue tears flowing down cheeks; middle face shows narrower vertical tear shapes; bottom face displays wider but shorter tears. All faces share identical eye position and hair style.

Description

  • Pixelated circular face with closed eyes and blue tears, three variations showing different tear shapes against gray background.

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): RROMROXAGPRNRBMKWHJIPJRPBLDFWV55
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AIM profiles
  • emotion
  • icon
  • mixed-size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art sad face
  • tear shape variations
  • three crying faces
  • beige head pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three circular faces arranged in grid pattern on solid background

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • beige head
  • closed eyes
  • blue tears
  • gray background
  • three variations
  • spiky hair tufts

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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 00:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1013 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:06 UTC
Archive ID
52c3e781439d3684
SHA-256
52c3e781439d3684ade448e9f0d7222f5e17c0f5cf31abccfa639e702a9e3e6d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated circular face with closed eyes and blue tears, three variations showing different tear shapes against gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,934 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,066, response 694

Review tags

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  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • tears (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • crying

Animation

  • tear shape changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue tear shapes change between frames while all other visual elements remain constant.

Colors

  • beige
  • black
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • three circular faces arranged in pattern on solid background

Dense Caption

Three pixel-art facial expressions on a solid light gray background. Each is a round beige head with black outline, two short black lines for closed eyes, and three thin black spiky hair tufts at top. Leftmost face has wide blue tears flowing down cheeks; middle face shows narrower vertical tear shapes; bottom face displays wider but shorter tears. All faces share identical eye position and hair style.

Description

  • Pixelated circular face with closed eyes and blue tears, three variations showing different tear shapes against gray background.

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): RROMROXAGPRNRBMKWHJIPJRPBLDFWV55
  • 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

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  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AIM profiles
  • emotion
  • icon
  • mixed-size

Mood

  • sad
  • melancholic

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  • tear shape variations
  • three crying faces
  • beige head pixel art

Objects

  • tears

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three circular faces arranged in grid pattern on solid background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • beige head
  • closed eyes
  • blue tears
  • gray background
  • three variations
  • spiky hair tufts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:43 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 (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 00:06 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
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