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Pixelated cartoon character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against solid gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against solid gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against solid gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bund…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • single character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a stylized anthropomorphic figure composed of distinct color blocks: bright red for the upper head section, light gray for two circular eye regions each containing black pupils and white highlights, and golden-yellow for the elongated lower body. The character's right arm extends forward with a raised thumb in a thumbs-up gesture. Background is uniform solid gray. Pixelation creates blocky edges throughout the figure. No text or additional symbols visible.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against solid gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • 2000s
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red head gray eyes yellow body
  • thumbs-up pixel art
  • cartoon character solid background
  • pixelated thumbs-up figure

Wordwall

  • red head
  • gray eyes
  • black pupils
  • white highlights
  • yellow body
  • thumbs-up gesture
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 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 21:54 UTC
Archive ID
55a1eedd2910d20c
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114962

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against solid gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:39 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,655 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,066, response 564

Review tags

  • giving thumbs up (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • anthropomorphic figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • giving thumbs-up

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered subject
  • single character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a stylized anthropomorphic figure composed of distinct color blocks: bright red for the upper head section, light gray for two circular eye regions each containing black pupils and white highlights, and golden-yellow for the elongated lower body. The character's right arm extends forward with a raised thumb in a thumbs-up gesture. Background is uniform solid gray. Pixelation creates blocky edges throughout the figure. No text or additional symbols visible.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against solid gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • 2000s
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Mood

  • positive
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red head gray eyes yellow body
  • thumbs-up pixel art
  • cartoon character solid background
  • pixelated thumbs-up figure

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • anthropomorphic figure

Wordwall

  • red head
  • gray eyes
  • black pupils
  • white highlights
  • yellow body
  • thumbs-up gesture
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated art
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Full source records (2)

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
004
Archive entry
004.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#004.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#004.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons

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
004
Archive entry
004.ico
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 12:46 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 Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons