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Pixelated yellow circular character with black limbs and white shoes, displaying multiple facial expressions

Pixelated yellow circular character with black limbs and white shoes, displaying multiple facial expressions. Animated 47×37 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Instant Messenger Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • eye state changes (open, squinted, closed) across frames

Animation Summary

  • Character maintains static body pose while eye expressions change across frames: open eyes, squinted eyes, closed eyes.

Composition

  • four of four characters
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated circle head with black arms and legs; white shoes on feet. Facial features include: triangular eyes (some closed), wide open eyes, smiling mouth. Four rows of four identical characters each show variations in eye state (open, squinted, closed) while maintaining consistent body pose and background.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow circular character with black limbs and white shoes, displaying multiple facial expressions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated character with changing eyes
  • 8-bit circle head animation
  • gray background of smiling faces
  • pixel art facial expression changes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated yellow circular character with black limbs and white shoes, displaying multiple facial expressions across sequential frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of four characters
  • quarantined composition: four rows of four characters
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: gray background grid of smiling faces

Wordwall

  • yellow circle head
  • black limbs
  • white shoes
  • triangular eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • pixelated style
  • gray background
  • four of four characters

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
47×37 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/7273f94af1603fd2c6cf2a44fdb15c605765fb5a6152bafcdaf71ac0609b9554.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 02:47 UTC
Archive ID
7273f94af1603fd2
SHA-256
7273f94af1603fd2c6cf2a44fdb15c605765fb5a6152bafcdaf71ac0609b9554
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092618

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

Pixelated yellow circular character with black limbs and white shoes, displaying multiple facial expressions

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:51 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,889 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 656

Review tags

  • facial expression change eyes (action, 0.80)
  • static pose (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • yellow circular character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • facial expression change (eyes)
  • static pose

Animation

  • eye state changes (open, squinted, closed) across frames

Animation Summary

  • Character maintains static body pose while eye expressions change across frames: open eyes, squinted eyes, closed eyes.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four of four characters
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated circle head with black arms and legs; white shoes on feet. Facial features include: triangular eyes (some closed), wide open eyes, smiling mouth. Four rows of four identical characters each show variations in eye state (open, squinted, closed) while maintaining consistent body pose and background.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow circular character with black limbs and white shoes, displaying multiple facial expressions

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icon
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance topic-coverage: instant messaging
  • provenance collection-attribute: instant-messenger
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
  • Internet Archive GifCities search result

Mood

  • playful
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated character with changing eyes
  • 8-bit circle head animation
  • gray background of smiling faces
  • pixel art facial expression changes

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of four characters
  • quarantined composition: four rows of four characters
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: gray background grid of smiling faces

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • yellow circular character

Wordwall

  • yellow circle head
  • black limbs
  • white shoes
  • triangular eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • pixelated style
  • gray background
  • four of four characters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:56 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 Instant Messenger Buddy Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-buddy-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Buddy-Icon Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:48 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities buddy-icon candidates using generic instant-messenger wording
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UOHM7QEGUGCKQFH3L665VMJWGHLKUL5D.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/UOHM7QEGUGCKQFH3L665VMJWGHLKUL5D.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091022135812/http://geocities.com/samasinelli/Page4.html