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Pixelated character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

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1
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0

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Pixelated character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

Pixelated character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, E…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a character's head and shoulders. The character has brown hair with darker brown highlights and a side-swept fringe. Skin is rendered in yellow tones with orange shading. Eyes are black with white highlights; the right eye shows a blue pupil. The mouth is a thin horizontal line. The character wears a purple jacket over a white shirt with a purple collar. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout the image. No text or symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a 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
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • observation title (gallery): 220
  • observation file-name (gallery): 220

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair yellow skin purple jacket
  • pixel art character gray background
  • yellow skin blue pupil purple collar
  • brown hair side-swept fringe white shirt
  • neutral expression pixel art character
  • gray background pixel art head
  • blue eye pupil yellow skin
  • purple jacket white shirt gray background

Style

  • 2D

Wordwall

  • brown hair
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  • purple jacket
  • white shirt
  • gray background
  • black eyes
  • white highlights
  • blue pupil
  • thin mouth
  • side-swept fringe
  • orange shading
  • pixelated
  • static
  • head and shoulders
  • light gray background
  • purple collar
  • white highlights on shirt
  • blue eye pupil
  • brown hair highlights
  • yellow skin shading

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 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
24937f0dccc11acd
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 10:28 UTC
Run
1298
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,759 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,026, response 733

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • purple
  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • blue
  • orange

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a character's head and shoulders. The character has brown hair with darker brown highlights and a side-swept fringe. Skin is rendered in yellow tones with orange shading. Eyes are black with white highlights; the right eye shows a blue pupil. The mouth is a thin horizontal line. The character wears a purple jacket over a white shirt with a purple collar. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout the image. No text or symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a 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
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • observation title (gallery): 220
  • observation file-name (gallery): 220

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow skin blue pupil purple collar
  • brown hair side-swept fringe white shirt
  • neutral expression pixel art character
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Style

  • pixel art
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  • 2D

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

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  • gray background
  • black eyes
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  • thin mouth
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  • orange shading
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  • static
  • head and shoulders
  • light gray background
  • purple collar
  • white highlights on shirt
  • blue eye pupil
  • brown hair highlights
  • yellow skin shading
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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)
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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
220
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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%2F220.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F220.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons