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Yellow circular icon with smiling face, transitioning through pixelated states to a distorted shape on gray background.

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Yellow circular icon with smiling face, transitioning through pixelated states to a distorted shape on gray background.

Yellow circular icon with smiling face, transitioning through pixelated states to a distorted shape on gray background. Animated 65×51 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Happy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 1: clear smile
  • frame 2: eye shift
  • frame 3: partial face distortion
  • frame 4: heavy pixelation

Animation Summary

Animated sequence showing yellow circular face with smile transitioning through four states of increasing pixelation and distortion until nearly unrecognizable.

Composition

  • single subject centered
  • frames

Dense Caption

Yellow circular icon with dark yellow border and light yellow interior shows four distinct animation frames: first frame has two round eyes and curved smile; second frame shifts right eye inward while maintaining smile; third frame distorts into abstract form with partial face elements; fourth frame becomes heavily pixelated, nearly unrecognizable shape. All frames on solid gray background.

Description

  • Yellow circular icon with smiling face, transitioning through pixelated states to a distorted shape on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • happy
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AIM profiles
  • emotion
  • happiness
  • icon
  • collection-attribute: gifcities

Metadata Only Entities

  • kevin3 2001
  • VRMLRV2Z6JVBSBFLYENY7XKNWKKB2X3A
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Happy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Happy Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: happiness
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiling face animation
  • pixelated transition icon
  • distortion
  • gray background animated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout of frames
  • quarantined retrieval: four frame distortion

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular
  • smiling face
  • two round eyes
  • curved mouth
  • dark yellow border
  • light yellow interior
  • four animation states
  • gray background
  • pixelated distortion

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Happy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
kevin3 2001 / images
Era
GeoCities Happy Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
65×51 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/5a/5a0b3f9abd36c80715dafe12ec385670fea6be90a6516198297fe19933e67dab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:10 UTC
Archive ID
5a0b3f9abd36c807
SHA-256
5a0b3f9abd36c80715dafe12ec385670fea6be90a6516198297fe19933e67dab
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092411

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920271onnx/unsafe0.092411onnx/nsfw0.049700onnx/nsfl0.042711
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow circular icon with smiling face, transitioning through pixelated states to a distorted shape on gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,383 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,081, response 666

Review tags

  • distortion (action, 0.80)
  • transition (action, 0.80)
  • dark yellow (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • distorted (mood, 0.80)
  • frame 1 clear smile (other, 0.80)
  • frame 2 eye shift (other, 0.80)
  • frame 3 partial face distortion (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • distortion
  • transition

Animation

  • frame 1: clear smile
  • frame 2: eye shift
  • frame 3: partial face distortion
  • frame 4: heavy pixelation

Animation Summary

Animated sequence showing yellow circular face with smile transitioning through four states of increasing pixelation and distortion until nearly unrecognizable.

Colors

  • yellow
  • dark yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • single subject centered
  • frames

Dense Caption

Yellow circular icon with dark yellow border and light yellow interior shows four distinct animation frames: first frame has two round eyes and curved smile; second frame shifts right eye inward while maintaining smile; third frame distorts into abstract form with partial face elements; fourth frame becomes heavily pixelated, nearly unrecognizable shape. All frames on solid gray background.

Description

  • Yellow circular icon with smiling face, transitioning through pixelated states to a distorted shape on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • happy
  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • AIM profiles
  • emotion
  • happiness
  • icon
  • collection-attribute: gifcities

Metadata Only Entities

  • kevin3 2001
  • VRMLRV2Z6JVBSBFLYENY7XKNWKKB2X3A
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Happy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Happy Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: happiness
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon

Mood

  • happy
  • distorted

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiling face animation
  • pixelated transition icon
  • distortion
  • gray background animated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout of frames
  • quarantined retrieval: four frame distortion

Style

  • pixel art
  • animated

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular
  • smiling face
  • two round eyes
  • curved mouth
  • dark yellow border
  • light yellow interior
  • four animation states
  • gray background
  • pixelated distortion
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:49 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)
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Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Happy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-happy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Happy Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
kevin3 2001 / images
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:10 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities happy icon candidates
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