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Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets

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Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets

Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets. Animated 50×40 GIF AIM buddy icon from GifCities Sad Icon Small Mixed-Size Search, GeoCities Sad Icon Perso…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Animation

  • sequential facial expression changes
  • progressive sweat droplet appearance

Animation Summary

The red sphere transitions through expressions: neutral face with downturned mouth, closed eyes with downturned mouth, then open mouths showing black mustache shapes while sweat droplets appear on the left side.

Dense Caption

A red sphere displays sequential emotional states: initial neutral face, then closed eyes with downturned mouth, followed by open mouths showing black mustache-like shapes. Sweat droplets appear progressively on the left side of the sphere in later frames. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of late-1990s digital media.

Description

  • Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sad
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): FYKFVW4UWR753K4S4Z42TC26EVYVZTQB
  • 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

  • red spherical icon
  • anxious facial expression animation
  • sweat droplets pixel art
  • low-resolution emotion icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets across multiple frames.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout of 12 frames

Wordwall

  • red spherical shape
  • gray background
  • closed eyes
  • downturned mouth
  • black mustache-like shapes
  • sweat droplets
  • pixelated texture

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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 00:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×40 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (11 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 00:12 UTC
Archive ID
cbba37b83dc7b385
SHA-256
cbba37b83dc7b385f84d5cea5437ac175aef0ab83dcbc6eb7729a3a5f6a38f8e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102052

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

Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,214 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,078, response 718

Review tags

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  • sweat droplets appear (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • anxious (mood, 0.80)
  • distressed (mood, 0.80)
  • sweat droplets (object, 0.80)
  • sequential facial expression changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red sphere (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • facial expression changes
  • sweat droplets appear

Animation

  • sequential facial expression changes
  • progressive sweat droplet appearance

Animation Summary

The red sphere transitions through expressions: neutral face with downturned mouth, closed eyes with downturned mouth, then open mouths showing black mustache shapes while sweat droplets appear on the left side.

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • black

Dense Caption

A red sphere displays sequential emotional states: initial neutral face, then closed eyes with downturned mouth, followed by open mouths showing black mustache-like shapes. Sweat droplets appear progressively on the left side of the sphere in later frames. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of late-1990s digital media.

Description

  • Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (query-selected; hint): sad
  • observation category (query-selected): gifcities
  • observation category (query-selected): search
  • observation title (query-selected): GifCities
  • observation file-name (query-selected): FYKFVW4UWR753K4S4Z42TC26EVYVZTQB
  • 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

  • anxious
  • distressed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red spherical icon
  • anxious facial expression animation
  • sweat droplets pixel art
  • low-resolution emotion icon

Objects

  • sweat droplets

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red spherical icon with changing facial expressions and sweat droplets across multiple frames.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout of 12 frames

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • red sphere

Wordwall

  • red spherical shape
  • gray background
  • closed eyes
  • downturned mouth
  • black mustache-like shapes
  • sweat droplets
  • pixelated texture
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 14, 2026 at 00:51 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 00:12 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/FYKFVW4UWR753K4S4Z42TC26EVYVZTQB.gif Download: https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/FYKFVW4UWR753K4S4Z42TC26EVYVZTQB.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090725194035/http://uk.geocities.com/matt_hod_website/animations