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Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled upward, neutral expression, and visible neck against gray background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled upward, neutral expression, and visible neck against gray background.

Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled upward, neutral expression, and visible neck against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive /…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and neck centered
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a person's head and upper neck. Hair is light brown with yellowish highlights, styled upward and slightly tousled. Skin tone is light with subtle shading. Eyes are closed or squinted, nose is straight, mouth is neutral. Background is solid light gray. Rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering. No clothing or accessories are visible. Image is cropped to show only the head and neck.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled upward, neutral expression, and visible neck against 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 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
  • mybuddy3
  • 074

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair neutral expression
  • pixelated head gray background
  • closed eyes low-resolution
  • yellowish highlights dithered rendering

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • yellowish highlights
  • closed eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution
  • visible dithering
  • head and neck only
  • no clothing

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/308f170b4d62f916396be12e2e411140aa9078cd838666bddfe6daaa94e1dcd1.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
308f170b4d62f916
SHA-256
308f170b4d62f916396be12e2e411140aa9078cd838666bddfe6daaa94e1dcd1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073465

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled upward, neutral expression, and visible neck against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,095 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 734

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellowish (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • light brown
  • yellowish
  • beige

Composition

  • head and neck centered
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a person's head and upper neck. Hair is light brown with yellowish highlights, styled upward and slightly tousled. Skin tone is light with subtle shading. Eyes are closed or squinted, nose is straight, mouth is neutral. Background is solid light gray. Rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering. No clothing or accessories are visible. Image is cropped to show only the head and neck.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with light brown hair styled upward, neutral expression, and visible neck against 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 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
  • mybuddy3
  • 074

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair neutral expression
  • pixelated head gray background
  • closed eyes low-resolution
  • yellowish highlights dithered rendering

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • yellowish highlights
  • closed eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution
  • visible dithering
  • head and neck only
  • no clothing
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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
074
Archive entry
Favorites/074.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%2F074.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F074.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons