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Pixelated gray figure with black eyes holds a yellow-orange gradient object with dark brown and red tip against light gray background.

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Pixelated gray figure with black eyes holds a yellow-orange gradient object with dark brown and red tip against light gray background.

Pixelated gray figure with black eyes holds a yellow-orange gradient object with dark brown and red tip against light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • object held in right hand

Dense Caption

Gray pixelated figure with two black square eyes, no mouth, and a rounded top. The figure holds a yellow-orange gradient object that transitions to dark brown and red at the tip. The object is held in the right hand, extending from the figure's midsection to the lower right. The background is solid light gray. The figure's body is a single gray shape with no visible clothing or accessories. The image is static with no animation. The figure's posture is upright. The object appears to be a stylized tool or weapon. The figure's head is rounded and lacks facial features beyond the eyes. The object's tip is red with a white pixel adjacent to it. The figure's left side has a small gray pixel cluster near the midsection.

Description

  • Pixelated gray figure with black eyes holds a yellow-orange gradient object with dark brown and red tip against light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 174
  • observation file-name (gallery): 174

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray figure holding yellow-orange object
  • pixelated figure with black eyes
  • yellow-orange gradient tool with red tip
  • gray background abstract icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • no motion changes observed

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

  • gray figure
  • black square eyes
  • yellow-orange gradient object
  • dark brown tip
  • red tip
  • light gray background
  • no mouth
  • upright posture
  • static image
  • stylized tool

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c91c4e6cda1dd469ddecc9275d395acbe50a642d1399a93b8a57edfdee1a840.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
4c91c4e6cda1dd46
SHA-256
4c91c4e6cda1dd469ddecc9275d395acbe50a642d1399a93b8a57edfdee1a840
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088350

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated gray figure with black eyes holds a yellow-orange gradient object with dark brown and red tip against light gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,215 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 769

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • gray figure (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow orange gradient object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • object held in right hand

Dense Caption

Gray pixelated figure with two black square eyes, no mouth, and a rounded top. The figure holds a yellow-orange gradient object that transitions to dark brown and red at the tip. The object is held in the right hand, extending from the figure's midsection to the lower right. The background is solid light gray. The figure's body is a single gray shape with no visible clothing or accessories. The image is static with no animation. The figure's posture is upright. The object appears to be a stylized tool or weapon. The figure's head is rounded and lacks facial features beyond the eyes. The object's tip is red with a white pixel adjacent to it. The figure's left side has a small gray pixel cluster near the midsection.

Description

  • Pixelated gray figure with black eyes holds a yellow-orange gradient object with dark brown and red tip against light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 174
  • observation file-name (gallery): 174

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray figure holding yellow-orange object
  • pixelated figure with black eyes
  • yellow-orange gradient tool with red tip
  • gray background abstract icon

Objects

  • yellow-orange gradient object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • no motion changes observed

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

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • gray figure
  • yellow-orange gradient object

Wordwall

  • gray figure
  • black square eyes
  • yellow-orange gradient object
  • dark brown tip
  • red tip
  • light gray background
  • no mouth
  • upright posture
  • static image
  • stylized tool
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:25 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
174
Archive entry
Favorites/174.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%2F174.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F174.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons