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Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes display sequential facial expression changes.

Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes display sequential facial expression changes. Animated 46×46 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Instant Messeng…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • facial expression changes

Animation Summary

The six faces sequentially display different expressions: smiling with closed eyes, neutral mouth with open eyes, closed mouth with open eyes, closed mouth with closed eyes, neutral mouth with open eyes, and closed mouth with open eyes.

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • solid gray background

Dense Caption

Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes arranged in two rows of three. Each face has large rounded cheeks and a small nose. The top-left face has a smiling mouth with closed eyes. The top-middle face has a neutral mouth with eyes open. The top-right face has a closed mouth with eyes open. The bottom-left face has a closed mouth with eyes closed. The bottom-middle face has a neutral mouth with eyes open. The bottom-right face has a closed mouth with eyes open. All faces share identical headband and eye design. The background is solid gray.

Description

  • Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes display sequential facial expression changes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow circular faces red headbands blue eyes
  • pixelated facial expression changes
  • six faces two three
  • solid gray background
  • large rounded cheeks small nose
  • yellow faces red headbands
  • blue eyes closed mouth
  • neutral mouth open eyes

Preprocessing Notes

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  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: six faces two rows three columns

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Wordwall

  • yellow circular faces
  • red headbands
  • blue eyes
  • large rounded cheeks
  • small nose
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated
  • six faces
  • two
  • three
  • facial expression changes

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Added to archive
July 10, 2026

GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
dvdmovie2001
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:33 UTC

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GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search

Source title
GifCities
Category
dvdmovie2001
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
46×46 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 03:33 UTC
Archive ID
b8f77232217b6425
SHA-256
b8f77232217b64254699534f8ee3616c6b02f2df59b27ef5f101b031f8d7acf7
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
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1140
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073310

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Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes display sequential facial expression changes.

Reviewed
August 23, 2026 at 20:33 UTC
Run
67
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,192 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 954

Review tags

  • closed mouth (action, 0.80)
  • eyes closed (action, 0.80)
  • eyes open (action, 0.80)
  • neutral mouth (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue eyes (object, 0.80)
  • large rounded cheeks (object, 0.80)
  • red headbands (object, 0.80)
  • small nose (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • yellow circular faces (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral mouth
  • closed mouth
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed

Animation

  • facial expression changes

Animation Summary

The six faces sequentially display different expressions: smiling with closed eyes, neutral mouth with open eyes, closed mouth with open eyes, closed mouth with closed eyes, neutral mouth with open eyes, and closed mouth with open eyes.

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • solid gray background

Dense Caption

Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes arranged in two rows of three. Each face has large rounded cheeks and a small nose. The top-left face has a smiling mouth with closed eyes. The top-middle face has a neutral mouth with eyes open. The top-right face has a closed mouth with eyes open. The bottom-left face has a closed mouth with eyes closed. The bottom-middle face has a neutral mouth with eyes open. The bottom-right face has a closed mouth with eyes open. All faces share identical headband and eye design. The background is solid gray.

Description

  • Six pixelated yellow circular faces with red headbands and blue eyes display sequential facial expression changes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Mood

  • happy
  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow circular faces red headbands blue eyes
  • pixelated facial expression changes
  • six faces two three
  • solid gray background
  • large rounded cheeks small nose
  • yellow faces red headbands
  • blue eyes closed mouth
  • neutral mouth open eyes

Objects

  • red headbands
  • blue eyes
  • large rounded cheeks
  • small nose

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
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  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
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  • quarantined retrieval: six faces two rows three columns

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 1998
  • provenance era: 1999
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance source-name: GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM-era identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aol
  • provenance topic-coverage: AOL Instant Messenger
  • provenance collection-attribute: avatar
  • provenance topic-coverage: avatars
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: geocities
  • provenance era: GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • yellow circular faces

Wordwall

  • yellow circular faces
  • red headbands
  • blue eyes
  • large rounded cheeks
  • small nose
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated
  • six faces
  • two
  • three
  • facial expression changes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 00:02 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 04:31 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
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Full source records (2)
GifCities Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-instant-messenger-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
dvdmovie2001
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:33 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square instant-messenger avatar candidates adjacent to AIM buddy icons
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/NWBNQIYECH6VBROXLKAIFJHN462ODYNA.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/NWBNQIYECH6VBROXLKAIFJHN462ODYNA.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060513123608/http://www.geocities.com/dvdmovie2001/1.gif 
GifCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Small Mixed-Size Search (gifcities-aol-instant-messenger-avatar-small-mixed)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger Avatar Cross-Section
Type
Internet Archive GifCities search result
Category
dvdmovie2001
Title
GifCities
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 05:35 UTC
Rights
mixed GeoCities user material; research/reference only by default
Slice
search-selected small and near-square GeoCities AOL Instant Messenger avatar candidates
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/NWBNQIYECH6VBROXLKAIFJHN462ODYNA.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/NWBNQIYECH6VBROXLKAIFJHN462ODYNA.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060513123608/http://www.geocities.com/dvdmovie2001/1.gif