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Pixelated character with light purple face, black eyes, pink mustache, and red circular emblem on top of head against gray background.

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Pixelated character with light purple face, black eyes, pink mustache, and red circular emblem on top of head against gray background.

Pixelated character with light purple face, black eyes, pink mustache, and red circular emblem on top of head against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • minimalist

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a stylized character with a light purple face, two solid black square eyes, and a thin pink mustache. A red circular emblem sits atop a light gray conical headpiece. The character has a small black curved mouth. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and no additional details or text.

Description

  • Pixelated character with light purple face, black eyes, pink mustache, and red circular emblem on top of head against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 103
  • observation file-name (gallery): 103

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light purple character pink mustache red emblem
  • pixel art character red emblem gray background
  • stylized face black eyes pink mustache
  • red emblem conical headpiece light purple face

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

Wordwall

  • light purple face
  • black square eyes
  • pink mustache
  • red circular emblem
  • light gray conical headpiece
  • solid light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • small curved mouth

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1b/1bd239d963a4817a661053a6e005a4a1c4fd48340deee6c3aed161b32c27e964.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
1bd239d963a4817a
SHA-256
1bd239d963a4817a661053a6e005a4a1c4fd48340deee6c3aed161b32c27e964
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068130

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated character with light purple face, black eyes, pink mustache, and red circular emblem on top of head against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,788 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 677

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • conical headpiece (object, 0.80)
  • red circular emblem (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light purple
  • black
  • pink
  • red
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • minimalist

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a stylized character with a light purple face, two solid black square eyes, and a thin pink mustache. A red circular emblem sits atop a light gray conical headpiece. The character has a small black curved mouth. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and no additional details or text.

Description

  • Pixelated character with light purple face, black eyes, pink mustache, and red circular emblem on top of head against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 103
  • observation file-name (gallery): 103

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light purple character pink mustache red emblem
  • pixel art character red emblem gray background
  • stylized face black eyes pink mustache
  • red emblem conical headpiece light purple face

Objects

  • red circular emblem
  • conical headpiece

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • stylized character

Wordwall

  • light purple face
  • black square eyes
  • pink mustache
  • red circular emblem
  • light gray conical headpiece
  • solid light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • small curved mouth
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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
103
Archive entry
Favorites/103.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%2F103.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F103.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons