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Pixelated blue sphere with two circular eyes and a red protrusion at the bottom, set against a solid gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
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Pixelated blue sphere with two circular eyes and a red protrusion at the bottom, set against a solid gray background.

Pixelated blue sphere with two circular eyes and a red protrusion at the bottom, set against a solid gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered sphere
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated blue sphere with a gradient from light blue at the top to darker blue at the bottom. It has two circular eyes with white highlights and dark gray pupils. A small red protrusion extends downward from the bottom center of the sphere. The background is a solid light gray color. The image is static with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue sphere with two circular eyes and a red protrusion at the bottom, set against a solid 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): 055
  • observation file-name (gallery): 055
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue sphere red protrusion
  • pixelated blue eyes
  • gray background sphere
  • red protrusion blue sphere

Wordwall

  • blue sphere
  • two circular eyes
  • white highlights
  • dark gray pupils
  • red protrusion
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • static image

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/27/27c9b9fdaea7250d5ad6e999ce77906655a69e6935f2d3abb49b8422a512f122.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
27c9b9fdaea7250d
SHA-256
27c9b9fdaea7250d5ad6e999ce77906655a69e6935f2d3abb49b8422a512f122
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:03 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022794

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:25 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.051083

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue sphere with two circular eyes and a red protrusion at the bottom, set against a solid gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,609 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 623

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • red protrusion (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • blue sphere (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • white
  • dark gray
  • red
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered sphere
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated blue sphere with a gradient from light blue at the top to darker blue at the bottom. It has two circular eyes with white highlights and dark gray pupils. A small red protrusion extends downward from the bottom center of the sphere. The background is a solid light gray color. The image is static with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue sphere with two circular eyes and a red protrusion at the bottom, set against a solid 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): 055
  • observation file-name (gallery): 055
  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue sphere red protrusion
  • pixelated blue eyes
  • gray background sphere
  • red protrusion blue sphere

Objects

  • red protrusion

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract

Subjects

  • blue sphere

Wordwall

  • blue sphere
  • two circular eyes
  • white highlights
  • dark gray pupils
  • red protrusion
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • static image
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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
055
Archive entry
Favorites/055.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%2F055.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F055.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons