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Red oval-shaped face with yellow spiky hair, downturned mouth, and wide eyes on a gray background.

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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
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Red oval-shaped face with yellow spiky hair, downturned mouth, and wide eyes on a gray background.

Red oval-shaped face with yellow spiky hair, downturned mouth, and wide eyes on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, Early-20…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a red oval-shaped face with a downturned mouth. The face has wide eyes with black pupils and white sclera. Yellow spiky hair extends from the top of the head, with individual strands rendered in yellow and light yellow pixels. The background is solid gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped face with yellow spiky hair, downturned mouth, and wide eyes on 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
  • 232
  • mybuddy3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval face yellow hair sad
  • pixelated sad face gray background
  • yellow spiky hair red face
  • downturned mouth pixel art

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • red oval face
  • yellow spiky hair
  • downturned mouth
  • wide eyes
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • limited color palette
  • solid background
  • no text
  • 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
3.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d227ae89ec3172ddab86b8dfba0d5d5e6f6a71f1f422d39041d3ca397506040.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
3d227ae89ec3172d
SHA-256
3d227ae89ec3172ddab86b8dfba0d5d5e6f6a71f1f422d39041d3ca397506040
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077928

OpenAI category scores

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

Red oval-shaped face with yellow spiky hair, downturned mouth, and wide eyes on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,557 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • unhappy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a red oval-shaped face with a downturned mouth. The face has wide eyes with black pupils and white sclera. Yellow spiky hair extends from the top of the head, with individual strands rendered in yellow and light yellow pixels. The background is solid gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped face with yellow spiky hair, downturned mouth, and wide eyes on 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
  • 232
  • mybuddy3

Mood

  • sad
  • unhappy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval face yellow hair sad
  • pixelated sad face gray background
  • yellow spiky hair red face
  • downturned mouth pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • red oval face
  • yellow spiky hair
  • downturned mouth
  • wide eyes
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • limited color palette
  • solid background
  • no text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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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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
232
Archive entry
Favorites/232.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%2F232.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F232.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons