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Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions

Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions. Animated 38×38 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Smal…, GeoCities AOL I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • uniform spacing
  • circular shapes

Dense Caption

The asset is a grid of yellow circular faces on gray background. Each face has two black oval eyes; some have one eye closed or squinted. Mouths vary: some are wide grins, others are small smiles or open mouths with visible teeth. All faces share the same yellow color and rounded shape. The grid contains 25 distinct frames arranged in five rows of five columns.

Description

  • Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: 1999-2009

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces
  • cartoon faces
  • varied facial expressions yellow circle
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears as static grid of 25 distinct frames
  • quarantined description: Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions across multiple frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: five columns
  • quarantined wordwall: five rows
  • quarantined style: repetitive grid
  • quarantined composition: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 5x5 grid of cartoon faces
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow smiley faces grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1999-2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: 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

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • black oval eyes
  • red mouth
  • wide grin
  • small smile
  • open mouth
  • one eye closed
  • gray background
  • five

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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
19.9 KB
Motion
Animated (24 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/5486fff80f5128717ed9399b25e4f419ca424499f6382b249e98c0ffa702c518.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Archive ID
5486fff80f512871
SHA-256
5486fff80f5128717ed9399b25e4f419ca424499f6382b249e98c0ffa702c518
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078895

OpenAI category scores

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

Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,822 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,652, response 733

Review tags

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  • grinning (action, 0.80)
  • opening mouth (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • varied expressions (mood, 0.80)
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  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • grinning
  • smiling
  • opening mouth
  • closing one eye

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • uniform spacing
  • circular shapes

Dense Caption

The asset is a grid of yellow circular faces on gray background. Each face has two black oval eyes; some have one eye closed or squinted. Mouths vary: some are wide grins, others are small smiles or open mouths with visible teeth. All faces share the same yellow color and rounded shape. The grid contains 25 distinct frames arranged in five rows of five columns.

Description

  • Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: 1999-2009

Mood

  • happy
  • playful
  • varied expressions

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces
  • cartoon faces
  • varied facial expressions yellow circle
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears as static grid of 25 distinct frames
  • quarantined description: Yellow circular face with black eyes and red mouth in various expressions across multiple frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: five columns
  • quarantined wordwall: five rows
  • quarantined style: repetitive grid
  • quarantined composition: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 5x5 grid of cartoon faces
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow smiley faces grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • black oval eyes
  • red mouth
  • wide grin
  • small smile
  • open mouth
  • one eye closed
  • gray background
  • five
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:49 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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