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Pixelated cartoon character wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, brown outfit, and yellow face, holding a black fishing rod against a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon character wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, brown outfit, and yellow face, holding a black fishing rod against a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, brown outfit, and yellow face, holding a black fishing rod against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from M…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • character centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with a large yellow face and brown body. Character wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with dark band. Character holds a black fishing rod in right hand. Character has brown outfit with white collar and brown shoes. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout. No text present. Character is in profile view facing left. Expression is neutral. Body posture is upright with slight forward lean. Fishing rod extends from right hand toward upper left corner. Hat brim is angled downward. Colors include yellow, brown, black, white, and light gray.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, brown outfit, and yellow face, holding a black fishing rod against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 197
  • 197.ico

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • straw hat fishing rod cartoon character
  • yellow face brown outfit gray background
  • pixelated cartoon character profile
  • fishing rod straw hat neutral expression
  • brown outfit white collar brown shoes
  • cartoon character holding fishing rod
  • straw hat yellow face brown body
  • gray background pixel art cartoon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • straw hat
  • fishing rod
  • yellow face
  • brown outfit
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • neutral expression
  • wide-brimmed hat
  • black fishing rod
  • white collar
  • brown shoes
  • upright posture
  • forward lean
  • hat band
  • light gray background
  • character profile
  • no text
  • brown body

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 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 22:04 UTC
Archive ID
4b8185d281c801a8
SHA-256
4b8185d281c801a8564267715baeb1270b0358d3c9a05db9df1885bfebc783bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131923

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cartoon character wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, brown outfit, and yellow face, holding a black fishing rod against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,226 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,062, response 888

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • fishing rod (object, 0.80)
  • straw hat (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding
  • standing

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • character centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with a large yellow face and brown body. Character wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with dark band. Character holds a black fishing rod in right hand. Character has brown outfit with white collar and brown shoes. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout. No text present. Character is in profile view facing left. Expression is neutral. Body posture is upright with slight forward lean. Fishing rod extends from right hand toward upper left corner. Hat brim is angled downward. Colors include yellow, brown, black, white, and light gray.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, brown outfit, and yellow face, holding a black fishing rod against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 197
  • 197.ico

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow face brown outfit gray background
  • pixelated cartoon character profile
  • fishing rod straw hat neutral expression
  • brown outfit white collar brown shoes
  • cartoon character holding fishing rod
  • straw hat yellow face brown body
  • gray background pixel art cartoon

Objects

  • fishing rod
  • straw hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2004
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  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
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Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

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  • yellow face
  • brown outfit
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • neutral expression
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  • black fishing rod
  • white collar
  • brown shoes
  • upright posture
  • forward lean
  • hat band
  • light gray background
  • character profile
  • no text
  • brown body
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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
197
Archive entry
197.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#197.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#197.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons