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Pixelated cartoon-style head and shoulders of a person with short black hair, light skin tone, dark eyebrows, brown eyes, visible ear, wearing a reddish-brown shirt against gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon-style head and shoulders of a person with short black hair, light skin tone, dark eyebrows, brown eyes, visible ear, wearing a reddish-brown shirt against gray background.

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Style

Mood

Color

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Composition

  • upper body
  • head and shoulders
  • slightly turned left
  • centered on face

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts upper body from neck to top of head. Head is slightly turned left. Hair is solid black blocky style. Skin tone is pale beige with subtle shading. Eyebrows are thick dark brown. Eyes have white pupils and black irises. Left ear visible, light pinkish-brown. Mouth has faint mustache-like shape in gray tones. Shirt is reddish-brown fabric texture. Background is uniform solid gray. Pixelation creates blocky appearance throughout.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style head and shoulders of a person with short black hair, light skin tone, dark eyebrows, brown eyes, visible ear, wearing a reddish-brown shirt against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-icon-pack

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • 2000s
  • buddy-icons
  • commercial-icon-pack

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair person pixel art
  • beige skin brown eyes shirt gray background
  • pixelated cartoon head turned left
  • reddish-brown shirt visible ear

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • light skin tone
  • dark eyebrows
  • brown eyes
  • visible ear
  • reddish-brown shirt
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • upper body view
  • slightly turned head

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:07 UTC
Archive ID
1456b8a4c1839a7d
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated cartoon-style head and shoulders of a person with short black hair, light skin tone, dark eyebrows, brown eyes, visible ear, wearing a reddish-brown shirt against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:47 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,402 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,061, response 655

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • beige
  • brown
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • upper body
  • head and shoulders
  • slightly turned left
  • centered on face

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts upper body from neck to top of head. Head is slightly turned left. Hair is solid black blocky style. Skin tone is pale beige with subtle shading. Eyebrows are thick dark brown. Eyes have white pupils and black irises. Left ear visible, light pinkish-brown. Mouth has faint mustache-like shape in gray tones. Shirt is reddish-brown fabric texture. Background is uniform solid gray. Pixelation creates blocky appearance throughout.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style head and shoulders of a person with short black hair, light skin tone, dark eyebrows, brown eyes, visible ear, wearing a reddish-brown shirt against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-icon-pack

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • 2000s
  • buddy-icons
  • commercial-icon-pack

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair person pixel art
  • beige skin brown eyes shirt gray background
  • pixelated cartoon head turned left
  • reddish-brown shirt visible ear

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light skin tone
  • dark eyebrows
  • brown eyes
  • visible ear
  • reddish-brown shirt
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • upper body view
  • slightly turned head
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Full source records (1)

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
258
Archive entry
258.ico
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 22:07 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#258.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#258.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons