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Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling, with a blue lightbulb icon appearing on the right side.

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Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling, with a blue lightbulb icon appearing on the right side.

Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling, with a blue lightbulb icon appearing on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • lightbulb appears on right side

Animation Summary

  • The blue lightbulb icon appears on the right side of the character's head between the two views.

Composition

  • character centered
  • lightbulb upper right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling. Left view shows only the character. Right view shows the same character with a blue lightbulb icon positioned to the upper right of the head. The lightbulb has a blue glass bulb and gray base. The character's hair is styled in a side-swept manner. The background is solid gray. The image uses pixelated rendering with visible dithering. The character's mouth is a white curved line. The sunglasses have gray frames and black lenses. The lightbulb icon is a separate object added to the right side of the composition.

Description

  • Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling, with a blue lightbulb icon appearing on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red character yellow hair sunglasses lightbulb
  • spherical character blue lightbulb
  • yellow hair black sunglasses red character
  • lightbulb appears on right

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated content but only one visible change is present

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 015
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • red spherical character
  • yellow hair
  • black sunglasses
  • smiling mouth
  • blue lightbulb
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • side-swept hair
  • gray frame sunglasses
  • blue glass bulb
  • white curved mouth
  • gray base lightbulb
  • solid gray background
  • dithered pixels
  • separate lightbulb object

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/15/15cb8e7cdf39006d4cbbde8a5c9296987dabae11d6cc29cb3468a34596381c89.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Archive ID
15cb8e7cdf39006d
SHA-256
15cb8e7cdf39006d4cbbde8a5c9296987dabae11d6cc29cb3468a34596381c89
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099870

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.901868onnx/unsafe0.099870onnx/nsfw0.067173onnx/nsfl0.032697
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling, with a blue lightbulb icon appearing on the right side.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,893 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 935

Review tags

  • appears (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • blue lightbulb (subject, 0.80)
  • red spherical character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • appears

Animation

  • lightbulb appears on right side

Animation Summary

  • The blue lightbulb icon appears on the right side of the character's head between the two views.

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray
  • blue

Composition

  • character centered
  • lightbulb upper right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling. Left view shows only the character. Right view shows the same character with a blue lightbulb icon positioned to the upper right of the head. The lightbulb has a blue glass bulb and gray base. The character's hair is styled in a side-swept manner. The background is solid gray. The image uses pixelated rendering with visible dithering. The character's mouth is a white curved line. The sunglasses have gray frames and black lenses. The lightbulb icon is a separate object added to the right side of the composition.

Description

  • Red spherical character with yellow hair and black sunglasses, smiling, with a blue lightbulb icon appearing on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red character yellow hair sunglasses lightbulb
  • spherical character blue lightbulb
  • yellow hair black sunglasses red character
  • lightbulb appears on right

Objects

  • blue lightbulb

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated content but only one visible change is present

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 015
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • simplified

Subjects

  • red spherical character
  • blue lightbulb

Wordwall

  • red spherical character
  • yellow hair
  • black sunglasses
  • smiling mouth
  • blue lightbulb
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • side-swept hair
  • gray frame sunglasses
  • blue glass bulb
  • white curved mouth
  • gray base lightbulb
  • solid gray background
  • dithered pixels
  • separate lightbulb object
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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
Source semantic tags (3)
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Full source records (1)
My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites (wayback-my-buddy-icons-v4-2006-extracted-favorites)
Kind
local-directory
Era
2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
Type
safely extracted official animated Favorites library from an archived AIM utility
Title
015
Archive entry
015.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Rights
vendor-authored commercial utility assets; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#015.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#015.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060314182033/http://www.buddy-icons.com/download.htm