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Pixelated circular face with blue hair, red eyes, and a blue mouth on a light gray background.

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Pixelated circular face with blue hair, red eyes, and a blue mouth on a light gray background.

Pixelated circular face with blue hair, red eyes, and a blue mouth on a light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites, 2003-2004…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular face
  • centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated icon featuring a circular face with a light beige skin tone. The face has blue hair styled in a rounded shape around the top and sides. Two blue eyebrows are positioned above red eyes with white highlights. A blue mouth is curved into a smile. The background is a solid light gray color. The icon uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky color transitions.

Description

  • Pixelated circular face with blue hair, red eyes, and a blue mouth on a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 156
  • 156.ico

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red eyes smiling face
  • pixelated face blue mouth
  • low-resolution blue hair red eyes
  • smiling face blue mouth pixel art
  • blue hair red eyes light gray background
  • pixel art face blue mouth
  • blue hair red eyes smiling
  • low-resolution smiling face

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about era, collection, and topic coverage but no visual evidence supports these claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • red eyes
  • blue mouth
  • light beige face
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • smiling
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky color transitions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 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 22:01 UTC
Archive ID
2d420cf12c50ed38
SHA-256
2d420cf12c50ed38ab70461f9d3cb44c95e352501992ed85f3216d8f3df0aabc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074007

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated circular face with blue hair, red eyes, and a blue mouth on a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:44 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,386 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,061, response 688

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • light beige
  • light gray

Composition

  • circular face
  • centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated icon featuring a circular face with a light beige skin tone. The face has blue hair styled in a rounded shape around the top and sides. Two blue eyebrows are positioned above red eyes with white highlights. A blue mouth is curved into a smile. The background is a solid light gray color. The icon uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky color transitions.

Description

  • Pixelated circular face with blue hair, red eyes, and a blue mouth on a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 156
  • 156.ico

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red eyes smiling face
  • pixelated face blue mouth
  • low-resolution blue hair red eyes
  • smiling face blue mouth pixel art
  • blue hair red eyes light gray background
  • pixel art face blue mouth
  • blue hair red eyes smiling
  • low-resolution smiling face

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about era, collection, and topic coverage but no visual evidence supports these claims

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • red eyes
  • blue mouth
  • light beige face
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • smiling
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky color transitions
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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
156
Archive entry
156.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

Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#156.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#156.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons