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Two yellow pixelated smiley faces with black outlines on gray background; top face has cross eyes, bottom face has one horizontal and one vertical eye.

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Two yellow pixelated smiley faces with black outlines on gray background; top face has cross eyes, bottom face has one horizontal and one vertical eye.

Two yellow pixelated smiley faces with black outlines on gray background; top face has cross eyes, bottom face has one horizontal and one vertical eye. Animated 37×38 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Composition

  • two icons stacked vertically
  • centered horizontally
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct yellow circular icons against a solid light gray background. Both icons are rendered in 8-bit style with visible pixelation and soft drop shadows creating a slight 3D effect. Each icon features a black curved smiley mouth. The top icon has two black plus signs (+) as eyes positioned horizontally. The bottom icon has one horizontal black line (−) for the left eye and one vertical black line (|) for the right eye. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Two yellow pixelated smiley faces with black outlines on gray background; top face has cross eyes, bottom face has one horizontal and one vertical eye.

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 cross eyes line eyes pixel art
  • plus sign and horizontal vertical eye smiley
  • 8-bit yellow icons gray background

Wordwall

  • yellow circular icons
  • black curved smiley mouth
  • plus sign eyes
  • horizontal and vertical line eyes
  • light gray background
  • pixelated 8-bit style
  • soft drop shadows

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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 02:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
37×38 pixels
File size
946 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 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 02:34 UTC
Archive ID
c98639e4e30bc0cf
SHA-256
c98639e4e30bc0cfe1fea2fc7abb2066c4397399d4ce61eab95d3a4854ce4299
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098884

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

Two yellow pixelated smiley faces with black outlines on gray background; top face has cross eyes, bottom face has one horizontal and one vertical eye.

Reviewed
July 26, 2026 at 22:18 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,487 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • smiley faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • two icons stacked vertically
  • centered horizontally
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct yellow circular icons against a solid light gray background. Both icons are rendered in 8-bit style with visible pixelation and soft drop shadows creating a slight 3D effect. Each icon features a black curved smiley mouth. The top icon has two black plus signs (+) as eyes positioned horizontally. The bottom icon has one horizontal black line (−) for the left eye and one vertical black line (|) for the right eye. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Two yellow pixelated smiley faces with black outlines on gray background; top face has cross eyes, bottom face has one horizontal and one vertical eye.

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

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiley faces cross eyes line eyes pixel art
  • plus sign and horizontal vertical eye smiley
  • 8-bit yellow icons gray background

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • smiley faces

Wordwall

  • yellow circular icons
  • black curved smiley mouth
  • plus sign eyes
  • horizontal and vertical line eyes
  • light gray background
  • pixelated 8-bit style
  • soft drop shadows
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 03:48 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 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 02:34 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
Original: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/JD34PL2ILTHK5FUVOPH3XIP3NCBVCU3Z.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/JD34PL2ILTHK5FUVOPH3XIP3NCBVCU3Z.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20091026235339/http://espanol.geocities.com/alma_rosa_99/