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Pixelated face with black hair styled in large upward curves, light skin tone, dark rectangular eyes and mouth, triangular forehead marking.

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Pixelated face with black hair styled in large upward curves, light skin tone, dark rectangular eyes and mouth, triangular forehead marking.

Pixelated face with black hair styled in large upward curves, light skin tone, dark rectangular eyes and mouth, triangular forehead marking. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • square crop
  • minimalist background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a stylized human-like head. The figure has short black hair forming two prominent upward-curving shapes on either side of the head. Skin is rendered in light brown tones with visible pixelation. Facial features include solid black circular eyes, a vertical rectangular mouth, and a small triangular marking centered above the forehead. Background is plain gray. Hair edges show slight white pixel artifacts at lower corners.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black hair styled in large upward curves, light skin tone, dark rectangular eyes and mouth, triangular forehead marking.

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair pixel art
  • upward-curving hair face
  • light skin rectangular mouth
  • triangular forehead mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • hair edges show slight white pixel artifacts at lower corners

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • stylized human-like head

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • upward-curving hair
  • light skin tone
  • solid black eyes
  • rectangular mouth
  • triangular forehead mark
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 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 22:00 UTC
Archive ID
46b37edf7397239d
SHA-256
46b37edf7397239d7805b4b874bd6728bf49e1219c6f6bf9612297312ac7597e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085642

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated face with black hair styled in large upward curves, light skin tone, dark rectangular eyes and mouth, triangular forehead marking.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,745 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,064, response 601

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • expressionless (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital illustration (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized human like head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light brown
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • square crop
  • minimalist background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a stylized human-like head. The figure has short black hair forming two prominent upward-curving shapes on either side of the head. Skin is rendered in light brown tones with visible pixelation. Facial features include solid black circular eyes, a vertical rectangular mouth, and a small triangular marking centered above the forehead. Background is plain gray. Hair edges show slight white pixel artifacts at lower corners.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black hair styled in large upward curves, light skin tone, dark rectangular eyes and mouth, triangular forehead marking.

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Mood

  • neutral
  • expressionless

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair pixel art
  • upward-curving hair face
  • light skin rectangular mouth
  • triangular forehead mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • hair edges show slight white pixel artifacts at lower corners

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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 digital illustration

Subjects

  • stylized human-like head

Visually Supported Entities

  • stylized human-like head

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • upward-curving hair
  • light skin tone
  • solid black eyes
  • rectangular mouth
  • triangular forehead mark
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
124
Archive entry
124.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#124.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#124.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons