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Pixelated yellow face with black eyes and open mouth wearing gray over-ear headphones on gray background.

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Pixelated yellow face with black eyes and open mouth wearing gray over-ear headphones on gray background.

Pixelated yellow face with black eyes and open mouth wearing gray over-ear headphones on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, E…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background
  • headphones framing face

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated, circular yellow face with two small black square eyes and a large dark gray oval mouth. The face wears gray over-ear headphones with white ear cushions and a dark gray headband. The background is solid light gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The face has no visible hair or other features. The mouth is open in a surprised or shouting expression. The headphones cover the ears and extend over the top of the head. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow face with black eyes and open mouth wearing gray over-ear headphones on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 098
  • observation file-name (gallery): 098

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face open mouth headphones
  • pixelated face gray headphones
  • surprised face headphones
  • yellow pixelated face
  • gray over-ear headphones
  • open mouth pixel art
  • low-resolution face
  • blocky face headphones

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • black eyes
  • open mouth
  • gray headphones
  • white ear cushions
  • dark gray headband
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • surprised expression
  • over-ear headphones
  • no hair
  • solid background
  • static image
  • low-resolution
  • oval mouth
  • square eyes
  • yellow skin tone
  • gray headband
  • white ear pads

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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/1d/1d30dc344ede05e0ba536d3b54234595f2f18aef0a6b7e5060fabc8290749a00.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
1d30dc344ede05e0
SHA-256
1d30dc344ede05e0ba536d3b54234595f2f18aef0a6b7e5060fabc8290749a00
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079494

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated yellow face with black eyes and open mouth wearing gray over-ear headphones on gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,928 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 749

Review tags

  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • wearing headphones (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • shocked (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • headphones (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • wearing headphones
  • open mouth

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background
  • headphones framing face

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated, circular yellow face with two small black square eyes and a large dark gray oval mouth. The face wears gray over-ear headphones with white ear cushions and a dark gray headband. The background is solid light gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The face has no visible hair or other features. The mouth is open in a surprised or shouting expression. The headphones cover the ears and extend over the top of the head. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow face with black eyes and open mouth wearing gray over-ear headphones on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 098
  • observation file-name (gallery): 098

Mood

  • surprised
  • shocked

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face open mouth headphones
  • pixelated face gray headphones
  • surprised face headphones
  • yellow pixelated face
  • gray over-ear headphones
  • open mouth pixel art
  • low-resolution face
  • blocky face headphones

Objects

  • headphones

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • black eyes
  • open mouth
  • gray headphones
  • white ear cushions
  • dark gray headband
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • surprised expression
  • over-ear headphones
  • no hair
  • solid background
  • static image
  • low-resolution
  • oval mouth
  • square eyes
  • yellow skin tone
  • gray headband
  • white ear pads
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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)
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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
098
Archive entry
Favorites/098.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%2F098.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F098.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons