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Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a smiling mouth under a dark gray top hat on a light gray background.

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Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a smiling mouth under a dark gray top hat on a light gray background.

Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a smiling mouth under a dark gray top hat on a light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • centered face
  • hat positioned above face

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated digital icon featuring a round blue face with two large black oval eyes outlined in white. Above the eyes are arched gray eyebrows. The face has a curved black smile. A tall rectangular dark gray top hat sits atop the head, extending slightly beyond the circular face on both sides. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges and color blending between adjacent pixels. No text or additional objects appear in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a smiling mouth under a dark gray top hat on a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • categorized
  • 2000s
  • cartoons
  • animals
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue face top hat pixel art
  • smiling blue cartoon character
  • pixelated digital icon happy face
  • top hat smiling blue emoji

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image is static.

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • blue face
  • black eyes
  • gray eyebrows
  • smiling mouth
  • dark gray top hat
  • light gray background
  • pixelated digital art
  • round head shape

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2c/2ce4429ade8ecb0c13de6746f6d06c38ec6a59ac4dc6a556dbfc6e5d38be881f.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:01 UTC
Archive ID
2ce4429ade8ecb0c
SHA-256
2ce4429ade8ecb0c13de6746f6d06c38ec6a59ac4dc6a556dbfc6e5d38be881f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083337

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a smiling mouth under a dark gray top hat on a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,415 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,058, response 556

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • digital icon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • top hat (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • hat positioned above face

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated digital icon featuring a round blue face with two large black oval eyes outlined in white. Above the eyes are arched gray eyebrows. The face has a curved black smile. A tall rectangular dark gray top hat sits atop the head, extending slightly beyond the circular face on both sides. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges and color blending between adjacent pixels. No text or additional objects appear in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a smiling mouth under a dark gray top hat on a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • categorized
  • 2000s
  • cartoons
  • animals
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue face top hat pixel art
  • smiling blue cartoon character
  • pixelated digital icon happy face
  • top hat smiling blue emoji

Objects

  • top hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image is static.

Style

  • pixel art
  • digital icon

Subjects

  • face
  • top hat

Wordwall

  • blue face
  • black eyes
  • gray eyebrows
  • smiling mouth
  • dark gray top hat
  • light gray background
  • pixelated digital art
  • round head shape
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Full source records (1)

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
152
Archive entry
152.ico
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

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