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Pixelated face with black hair, squinting eyes, and a small smile on a gray background.

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Pixelated face with black hair, squinting eyes, and a small smile on a gray background.

Pixelated face with black hair, squinting eyes, and a small smile on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites, 2003-2004 AIM Ut…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • circular head shape
  • hair extends beyond head edges

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a human-like face. The head has short, straight black hair with uneven edges. Skin tone is light beige. Eyes are narrow slits with white highlights; left eye appears slightly larger than right. Eyebrows are dark brown and angled downward. Nose is small and indistinct. Mouth is a thin curved line forming a subtle smile. Background is solid medium gray. Pixelation creates blocky, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black hair, squinting eyes, and a small smile on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair squinting eyes gray background
  • pixel art face smile
  • beige skin brown eyebrows
  • low-resolution cartoon face

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • file-name: 123.ico
  • file-name: mybuddy3
  • title: 123
  • era: 2003-2004
  • collection: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • topic: cartoons

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • face

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • light skin tone
  • squinting eyes
  • small smile
  • 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
2.5 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 22:00 UTC
Archive ID
5acf1545730495d4
SHA-256
5acf1545730495d41e5ec34391d2ed95bafed3d0f7eb4389f4f0fbaa29fefbed
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090141

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated face with black hair, squinting eyes, and a small smile on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,789 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,057, response 659

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • subtly amused (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
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  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • beige
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • centered face
  • circular head shape
  • hair extends beyond head edges

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a human-like face. The head has short, straight black hair with uneven edges. Skin tone is light beige. Eyes are narrow slits with white highlights; left eye appears slightly larger than right. Eyebrows are dark brown and angled downward. Nose is small and indistinct. Mouth is a thin curved line forming a subtle smile. Background is solid medium gray. Pixelation creates blocky, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black hair, squinting eyes, and a small smile on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Mood

  • neutral
  • subtly amused

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair squinting eyes gray background
  • pixel art face smile
  • beige skin brown eyebrows
  • low-resolution cartoon face

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • file-name: mybuddy3
  • title: 123
  • era: 2003-2004
  • collection: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • topic: cartoons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • face

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • light skin tone
  • squinting eyes
  • small smile
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
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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
123
Archive entry
123.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#123.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#123.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons