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Pixelated green character with single eye, black hat, and anchor symbol on belly, extending one arm outward against gray background.

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2
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1
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Pixelated green character with single eye, black hat, and anchor symbol on belly, extending one arm outward against gray background.

Pixelated green character with single eye, black hat, and anchor symbol on belly, extending one arm outward against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • extending arm

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a rounded green figure with a single large eye, black triangular hat, and anchor symbol on its belly. The figure has one arm extended to the left, two small legs, and a slightly tilted posture. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette of green shades, black, and white. The rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated green character with single eye, black hat, and anchor symbol on belly, extending one arm outward against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • 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
  • 038
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green figure anchor hat
  • pixelated single eye extended arm
  • green character black hat anchor
  • low-resolution anchor symbol figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation 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

  • single eye
  • black hat
  • anchor symbol
  • extended arm
  • green figure
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • tilted posture
  • small legs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a4a60a5d9a445ae1e3acec1f566dadf8dac215a9049b6054d48c35ca9562b7e.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
4a4a60a5d9a445ae
SHA-256
4a4a60a5d9a445ae1e3acec1f566dadf8dac215a9049b6054d48c35ca9562b7e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:13 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.061301

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated green character with single eye, black hat, and anchor symbol on belly, extending one arm outward against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,462 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 667

Review tags

  • extending arm (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • anchor symbol (object, 0.80)
  • black hat (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • green figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • extending arm

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a rounded green figure with a single large eye, black triangular hat, and anchor symbol on its belly. The figure has one arm extended to the left, two small legs, and a slightly tilted posture. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette of green shades, black, and white. The rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated green character with single eye, black hat, and anchor symbol on belly, extending one arm outward against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • 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
  • 038
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green figure anchor hat
  • pixelated single eye extended arm
  • green character black hat anchor
  • low-resolution anchor symbol figure

Objects

  • black hat
  • anchor symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation 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

Subjects

  • green figure

Wordwall

  • single eye
  • black hat
  • anchor symbol
  • extended arm
  • green figure
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • tilted posture
  • small legs
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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
038
Archive entry
Favorites/038.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%2F038.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F038.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons