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Two pixelated chat icons with 'CHAT' text above, one neutral-faced and one smiling, both with pink cheeks.

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Two pixelated chat icons with 'CHAT' text above, one neutral-faced and one smiling, both with pink cheeks.

Two pixelated chat icons with 'CHAT' text above, one neutral-faced and one smiling, both with pink cheeks. Animated 43×41 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Chat Icon Small Mixed-S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • right icon changes from neutral to smiling expression

Animation Summary

  • Right icon transitions from neutral to smiling expression while maintaining identical head shape, text box, and ear positions.

Composition

  • two icons side-by-side
  • symmetrical layout
  • text above heads

Dense Caption

Left icon: gray rounded head with closed eyes (horizontal lines), straight mouth line, two pink plus signs on cheeks; yellow rectangle with blue border containing black uppercase 'CHAT'; four white circular ears. Right icon: same gray head shape with closed eyes (horizontal lines) and pink cheek marks; red triangular mouth opening; identical yellow-blue 'CHAT' text box; four white ear shapes. Both icons have dark gray shadows below, pixelated rendering style on light gray background.

Description

  • Two pixelated chat icons with 'CHAT' text above, one neutral-faced and one smiling, both with pink cheeks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Chat Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: chat
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Chat Identity Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance topic-coverage: messengers
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chat icons pixel art
  • yellow blue CHAT text
  • pink plus sign cheeks
  • red triangular mouth

Visible Text

  • CHAT

Visually Supported Entities

  • chat icons

Wordwall

  • gray rounded heads
  • closed eyes horizontal lines
  • pink plus sign cheeks
  • yellow blue CHAT text
  • white circular ears
  • red triangular mouth
  • dark gray shadows

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Chat Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Chat Identity Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
43×41 pixels
File size
840 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b8797184dbbef8beb2e23795fc6db527cd406c02eba03790675ec1d152b8845.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:37 UTC
Archive ID
5b8797184dbbef8b
SHA-256
5b8797184dbbef8beb2e23795fc6db527cd406c02eba03790675ec1d152b8845
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078585

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

Two pixelated chat icons with 'CHAT' text above, one neutral-faced and one smiling, both with pink cheeks.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,620 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,098, response 677

Review tags

  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • smiling expression (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cheek marks (object, 0.80)
  • text boxes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • chat icons (subject, 0.80)
  • pixelated characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • neutral expression
  • smiling expression

Animation

  • right icon changes from neutral to smiling expression

Animation Summary

  • Right icon transitions from neutral to smiling expression while maintaining identical head shape, text box, and ear positions.

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • blue
  • black
  • red
  • pink
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • two icons side-by-side
  • symmetrical layout
  • text above heads

Dense Caption

Left icon: gray rounded head with closed eyes (horizontal lines), straight mouth line, two pink plus signs on cheeks; yellow rectangle with blue border containing black uppercase 'CHAT'; four white circular ears. Right icon: same gray head shape with closed eyes (horizontal lines) and pink cheek marks; red triangular mouth opening; identical yellow-blue 'CHAT' text box; four white ear shapes. Both icons have dark gray shadows below, pixelated rendering style on light gray background.

Description

  • Two pixelated chat icons with 'CHAT' text above, one neutral-faced and one smiling, both with pink cheeks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Chat Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: chat
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Chat Identity Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance topic-coverage: messengers
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • GeoCities
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chat icons pixel art
  • yellow blue CHAT text
  • pink plus sign cheeks
  • red triangular mouth

Objects

  • text boxes
  • cheek marks

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • chat icons
  • pixelated characters

Visible Text

  • CHAT

Visually Supported Entities

  • chat icons

Wordwall

  • gray rounded heads
  • closed eyes horizontal lines
  • pink plus sign cheeks
  • yellow blue CHAT text
  • white circular ears
  • red triangular mouth
  • dark gray shadows
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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)
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Full source records (1)
GifCities Chat Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-chat-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Chat Identity Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:37 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities chat icon candidates from messenger-adjacent pages
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4CO2U6BYPK7IG3VADMFYVU3GFA5IRHO5.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/4CO2U6BYPK7IG3VADMFYVU3GFA5IRHO5.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025043357/http://geocities.com/likeorange2001/gif84/gif84.htm