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Two yellow pixelated smiley faces side-by-side, one with solid black eyes and mouth, the other with arched eyes and a red open mouth.

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Two yellow pixelated smiley faces side-by-side, one with solid black eyes and mouth, the other with arched eyes and a red open mouth.

Two yellow pixelated smiley faces side-by-side, one with solid black eyes and mouth, the other with arched eyes and a red open mouth. Animated 35×34 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCit…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • static image with two distinct states shown simultaneously

Composition

  • two side-by-side circular icons
  • centered on gray background

Dense Caption

The image shows two adjacent circular yellow smiley face icons on a gray background. Both have black outlines. The left icon has rectangular black eyes and a straight horizontal black mouth. The right icon has curved arch-shaped black eyes and a red mouth outlined in black with an open shape showing the red interior. All elements are rendered in 8-bit pixel art style.

Description

  • Two yellow pixelated smiley faces side-by-side, one with solid black eyes and mouth, the other with arched eyes and a red open mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • buddy icons
  • GeoCities
  • instant-messenger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces pixel art
  • black eyes red mouth yellow face
  • pixelated smiley two states
  • arched eye straight mouth yellow icon

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • black outline
  • gray background
  • rectangular eyes
  • straight mouth
  • arched eyes
  • red mouth
  • pixelated

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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 02:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
35×34 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 02:31 UTC
Archive ID
6a189c15c5aff314
SHA-256
6a189c15c5aff314325adc1760e3b6ac6894d99348087a110c30bac3a80764ab
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086739

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

Two yellow pixelated smiley faces side-by-side, one with solid black eyes and mouth, the other with arched eyes and a red open mouth.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:15 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,707 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • smiley faces (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with two distinct states shown simultaneously

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray
  • red

Composition

  • two side-by-side circular icons
  • centered on gray background

Dense Caption

The image shows two adjacent circular yellow smiley face icons on a gray background. Both have black outlines. The left icon has rectangular black eyes and a straight horizontal black mouth. The right icon has curved arch-shaped black eyes and a red mouth outlined in black with an open shape showing the red interior. All elements are rendered in 8-bit pixel art style.

Description

  • Two yellow pixelated smiley faces side-by-side, one with solid black eyes and mouth, the other with arched eyes and a red open mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities
  • AOL Instant Messenger
  • buddy icons
  • GeoCities
  • instant-messenger

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces pixel art
  • black eyes red mouth yellow face
  • pixelated smiley two states
  • arched eye straight mouth yellow icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • smiley faces

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • black outline
  • gray background
  • rectangular eyes
  • straight mouth
  • arched eyes
  • red mouth
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:47 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 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 02:31 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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