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Pixelated circular icon with cream face, black eyebrows, blue tears streaming down, yellow side accents, gray base, and scattered blue droplets.

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Pixelated circular icon with cream face, black eyebrows, blue tears streaming down, yellow side accents, gray base, and scattered blue droplets.

Pixelated circular icon with cream face, black eyebrows, blue tears streaming down, yellow side accents, gray base, and scattered blue droplets. Animated 40×40 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • tear streams remain static; blue droplets shift position between frames

Animation Summary

The icon shows a crying face with blue tears streaming down; the only visible change is that scattered blue droplets shift position between frames.

Composition

  • circular face
  • symmetrical layout
  • centralized expression

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated circular icon with a cream-colored face. It has two thick vertical blue tear streams flowing from the top of its head. A single black zigzag line represents eyebrows above the tears. On both sides of the circle are small yellow square accents. Below the main shape, there is a gray base and scattered blue droplets. The left frame shows more blue droplets near the bottom-left of the icon; the right frame has fewer blue droplets overall.

Description

Pixelated circular icon with cream face, black eyebrows, blue tears streaming down, yellow side accents, gray base, and scattered blue droplets.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected: sad)
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • crying pixel art face
  • blue tear streams yellow accents
  • sad emoji animation

Wordwall

  • cream face
  • blue tears
  • black zigzag eyebrows
  • yellow side accents
  • gray base
  • scattered blue droplets

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
search / gifcities
Era
GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
40×40 pixels
File size
586 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 10, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/8378eec8bf1b90c03261bc8e9fb5a2f21684ee7ee402371a93d62d08374ede9d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 00:03 UTC
Archive ID
8378eec8bf1b90c0
SHA-256
8378eec8bf1b90c03261bc8e9fb5a2f21684ee7ee402371a93d62d08374ede9d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
1111
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082229

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925298onnx/unsafe0.082229onnx/nsfw0.045411onnx/nsfl0.036818
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated circular icon with cream face, black eyebrows, blue tears streaming down, yellow side accents, gray base, and scattered blue droplets.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 14:13 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,967 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,101, response 702

Review tags

  • droplets falling (action, 0.80)
  • tears streaming down (action, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • blue droplets (object, 0.80)
  • blue tear streams (object, 0.80)
  • gray base (object, 0.80)
  • yellow square accents (object, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • crying face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • tears streaming down
  • droplets falling

Animation

  • tear streams remain static; blue droplets shift position between frames

Animation Summary

The icon shows a crying face with blue tears streaming down; the only visible change is that scattered blue droplets shift position between frames.

Colors

  • cream
  • black
  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • circular face
  • symmetrical layout
  • centralized expression

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated circular icon with a cream-colored face. It has two thick vertical blue tear streams flowing from the top of its head. A single black zigzag line represents eyebrows above the tears. On both sides of the circle are small yellow square accents. Below the main shape, there is a gray base and scattered blue droplets. The left frame shows more blue droplets near the bottom-left of the icon; the right frame has fewer blue droplets overall.

Description

Pixelated circular icon with cream face, black eyebrows, blue tears streaming down, yellow side accents, gray base, and scattered blue droplets.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected: sad)
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM profiles
  • provenance topic-coverage: emotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: gifcities
  • provenance collection-attribute: icon
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive GifCities search result
  • provenance collection-attribute: mixed-size

Metadata Only Entities

  • GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search
  • GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section

Mood

  • sad
  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • crying pixel art face
  • blue tear streams yellow accents
  • sad emoji animation

Objects

  • blue tear streams
  • yellow square accents
  • gray base
  • blue droplets

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon style

Subjects

  • crying face

Wordwall

  • cream face
  • blue tears
  • black zigzag eyebrows
  • yellow side accents
  • gray base
  • scattered blue droplets
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:38 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 Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-sad-icon-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Sad Icon Personal Web Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
search / gifcities
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 00:03 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities sad icon candidates common in AIM expression culture
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/75SF45U7NKT2PRTURMJVKVTNTZB5HG47.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/75SF45U7NKT2PRTURMJVKVTNTZB5HG47.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025110803/http://geocities.com/rox_roswell/kare_kano_historia.htm