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Pixelated character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair, and a brown hat, wearing an orange garment against a gray background.

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Pixelated character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair, and a brown hat, wearing an orange garment against a gray background.

Pixelated character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair, and a brown hat, wearing an orange garment against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tuc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped upper body
  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a character with orange-yellow skin tone. Character has brown hair styled in a wide-brimmed brown hat. Facial features include black eyes with white highlights, a small black nose, and a closed mouth. Character wears an orange garment with a white trim line across the chest. Background is solid light gray. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. Cropped to show upper body from shoulders up. No visible text or additional props.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair, and a brown hat, wearing an orange garment 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 212
  • mybuddy3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange character pixel art
  • brown hat pixel art
  • gray background pixel art
  • closed mouth pixel art
  • orange garment white trim
  • pixel art character neutral expression
  • low resolution pixel art
  • cropped upper body pixel art

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  • orange-yellow skin
  • brown hat
  • brown hair
  • black eyes
  • white highlights
  • small black nose
  • closed mouth
  • orange garment
  • white trim
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • cropped upper body

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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
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Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
2bf92c21e9aefca2
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113759

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

Pixelated character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair, and a brown hat, wearing an orange garment against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,032 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,026, response 656

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • cropped upper body
  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a character with orange-yellow skin tone. Character has brown hair styled in a wide-brimmed brown hat. Facial features include black eyes with white highlights, a small black nose, and a closed mouth. Character wears an orange garment with a white trim line across the chest. Background is solid light gray. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. Cropped to show upper body from shoulders up. No visible text or additional props.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair, and a brown hat, wearing an orange garment 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 212
  • mybuddy3

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange character pixel art
  • brown hat pixel art
  • gray background pixel art
  • closed mouth pixel art
  • orange garment white trim
  • pixel art character neutral expression
  • low resolution pixel art
  • cropped upper body pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

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  • brown hat
  • brown hair
  • black eyes
  • white highlights
  • small black nose
  • closed mouth
  • orange garment
  • white trim
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • cropped upper body
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:25 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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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
212
Archive entry
Favorites/212.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%2F212.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F212.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons