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Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a dark blue fedora with a white band, light brown eyes, and a green and white checkered shirt against a gray background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a dark blue fedora with a white band, light brown eyes, and a green and white checkered shirt against a gray background.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a person's head and shoulders. The person wears a dark blue fedora with a white band across the crown. The fedora has a flat brim with a slight upward curve on the right side. The person has light brown eyes, a straight nose, and a neutral mouth expression. The hair is dark brown and visible on the sides of the head. The shirt is green and white checkered with a white collar. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation is prominent throughout the image, with visible blocky artifacts. The image is cropped to show only the head and upper shoulders.

Description

Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a dark blue fedora with a white band, light brown eyes, and a green and white checkered shirt against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 073
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fedora white band
  • green checkered shirt
  • pixelated person
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

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  • dark blue fedora
  • white band
  • light brown eyes
  • green and white checkered shirt
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • dark brown hair
  • flat brim
  • white collar

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 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 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
170f3ea562df614a
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:07 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a dark blue fedora with a white band, light brown eyes, and a green and white checkered shirt against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,361 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 720

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • fedora (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • light brown
  • green
  • gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a person's head and shoulders. The person wears a dark blue fedora with a white band across the crown. The fedora has a flat brim with a slight upward curve on the right side. The person has light brown eyes, a straight nose, and a neutral mouth expression. The hair is dark brown and visible on the sides of the head. The shirt is green and white checkered with a white collar. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation is prominent throughout the image, with visible blocky artifacts. The image is cropped to show only the head and upper shoulders.

Description

Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a dark blue fedora with a white band, light brown eyes, and a green and white checkered shirt against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 073
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fedora white band
  • green checkered shirt
  • pixelated person
  • gray background

Objects

  • fedora
  • shirt

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • white band
  • light brown eyes
  • green and white checkered shirt
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • dark brown hair
  • flat brim
  • white collar
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:24 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)
Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons (internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Downloadware
Type
safely extracted archived Windows utility icon library
Category
Favorites
Title
073
Archive entry
Favorites/073.ico
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Rights
publisher-described original utility-bundled icons; research/reference only by default
Slice
desktop utility bundled icon collections
Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F073.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F073.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons