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Pixelated character with light skin, dark hair, and blue headband holding a red object against blurred background.

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Pixelated character with light skin, dark hair, and blue headband holding a red object against blurred background.

Pixelated character with light skin, dark hair, and blue headband holding a red object against blurred background. 48×48 JPG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • extending arm

Composition

  • centered character
  • partial background elements

Dense Caption

Character has light brown skin tone. Hair is short, dark gray or black, styled upward. Blue headband wraps around forehead. Eyes are closed; mouth appears neutral. Red cylindrical object held in right hand. Left arm extended with fingers visible. Background contains yellow and green shapes on left side, white and blue areas behind character. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves color blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated character with light skin, dark hair, and blue headband holding a red object against blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): eggman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): AIM
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): AIM
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): AIM
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Dr. Eggman
  • Sonic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character blue headband red object
  • light brown skin dark hair closed eyes
  • yellow green background shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2001-2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters

Visually Supported Entities

  • character

Wordwall

  • light brown skin
  • dark hair
  • blue headband
  • closed eyes
  • red object
  • yellow background shape
  • green background shape

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
JPG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba2622e26c62fe3603f913e037fe3c558eaf5c83c78d95e03122a611f43cc6ad.jpg
Media type
image/jpeg
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
ba2622e26c62fe36
SHA-256
ba2622e26c62fe3603f913e037fe3c558eaf5c83c78d95e03122a611f43cc6ad
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.390893

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.609107onnx/unsafe0.390893onnx/nsfw0.353715onnx/nsfl0.037177
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Pixelated character with light skin, dark hair, and blue headband holding a red object against blurred background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:05 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,866 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,048, response 639

Review tags

  • extending arm (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • red cylindrical object (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending arm

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark gray
  • blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • partial background elements

Dense Caption

Character has light brown skin tone. Hair is short, dark gray or black, styled upward. Blue headband wraps around forehead. Eyes are closed; mouth appears neutral. Red cylindrical object held in right hand. Left arm extended with fingers visible. Background contains yellow and green shapes on left side, white and blue areas behind character. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves color blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated character with light skin, dark hair, and blue headband holding a red object against blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): eggman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): AIM
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): AIM
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): AIM
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Dr. Eggman
  • Sonic

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character blue headband red object
  • light brown skin dark hair closed eyes
  • yellow green background shapes

Objects

  • red cylindrical object

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2001-2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • character

Visually Supported Entities

  • character

Wordwall

  • light brown skin
  • dark hair
  • blue headband
  • closed eyes
  • red object
  • yellow background shape
  • green background shape
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TagConf.Evidenceeggman0.90internet-archive-eggman-empire-aim-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · collection-identity · identity · curated-homogeneous · source-seed
Full source records (1)

Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons (internet-archive-eggman-empire-aim-icons)

Kind
internet-archive-item
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
Type
Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons
Title
AIM
Alt
AIM
Archive entry
AIM.JPG
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Rights
copyrighted game imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Original: https://archive.org/download/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons/AIM.JPG#AIM.JPG Download: https://archive.org/download/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons/AIM.JPG#AIM.JPG Page: https://archive.org/details/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons