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Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against gray background.

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Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against gray background.

Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • full-body
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against gray background. Character has light skin tone, brown eyes, and neutral expression. Arms are slightly extended with blue gloves visible. Body is upright with straight posture. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible text or symbols. Background is solid gray with no texture or variation.

Description

  • Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 089
  • observation file-name (gallery): 089

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cap character
  • dark green shirt pixelated
  • blue pants brown boots
  • neutral expression pixel art
  • gray background character
  • blue gloves upright posture
  • pixelated character no text
  • low resolution character

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  • blue cap
  • dark green shirt
  • blue pants
  • brown boots
  • blue gloves
  • light skin tone
  • brown eyes
  • neutral expression
  • upright posture
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • no visible text
  • solid background
  • slightly extended arms
  • consistent pixelation

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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 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
52c30b7b3649b2c7
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091041

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

Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,360 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 701

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue cap (object, 0.80)
  • blue gloves (object, 0.80)
  • blue pants (object, 0.80)
  • brown boots (object, 0.80)
  • dark green shirt (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • dark green
  • brown
  • gray
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • centered
  • full-body
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against gray background. Character has light skin tone, brown eyes, and neutral expression. Arms are slightly extended with blue gloves visible. Body is upright with straight posture. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible text or symbols. Background is solid gray with no texture or variation.

Description

  • Pixelated character with blue cap, dark green shirt, blue pants, brown boots, and blue gloves against 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 089
  • observation file-name (gallery): 089

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cap character
  • dark green shirt pixelated
  • blue pants brown boots
  • neutral expression pixel art
  • gray background character
  • blue gloves upright posture
  • pixelated character no text
  • low resolution character

Objects

  • blue cap
  • dark green shirt
  • blue pants
  • brown boots
  • blue gloves

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

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  • dark green shirt
  • blue pants
  • brown boots
  • blue gloves
  • light skin tone
  • brown eyes
  • neutral expression
  • upright posture
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • no visible text
  • solid background
  • slightly extended arms
  • consistent pixelation
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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
089
Archive entry
Favorites/089.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%2F089.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F089.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons