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Pixelated character with purple face, red cat ears, blue eyebrows, gray eyes with red outlines, and green mouth against gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

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Pixelated character with purple face, red cat ears, blue eyebrows, gray eyes with red outlines, and green mouth against gray background.

Pixelated character with purple face, red cat ears, blue eyebrows, gray eyes with red outlines, and green mouth against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated character face with purple skin tone, two red cat ears extending from top of head, blue eyebrows above large gray eyes with red outlines, white eye highlights, green mouth shape at bottom center, gray background, 16-bit color palette, low-resolution raster image, no visible text, static composition, no motion.

Description

  • Pixelated character with purple face, red cat ears, blue eyebrows, gray eyes with red outlines, and green mouth against 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): 165
  • observation title (gallery): 167
  • observation file-name (gallery): 165
  • observation file-name (gallery): 167

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cat face
  • red ears gray eyes
  • pixel art character
  • 16-bit color avatar
  • gray background icon
  • blue eyebrows green mouth
  • static pixel art
  • low-resolution character

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

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

Wordwall

  • purple face
  • red cat ears
  • blue eyebrows
  • gray eyes
  • red eye outlines
  • green mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • 16-bit color

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5e/5e0939601a59123b6cc62faced28ae68e17086b0123e1582084ac3364c158c78.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
5e0939601a59123b
SHA-256
5e0939601a59123b6cc62faced28ae68e17086b0123e1582084ac3364c158c78
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089664

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910336onnx/unsafe0.089664onnx/nsfw0.061070onnx/nsfl0.028594
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with purple face, red cat ears, blue eyebrows, gray eyes with red outlines, and green mouth against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,781 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 677

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 16 bit color (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • red
  • blue
  • gray
  • green

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

Pixelated character face with purple skin tone, two red cat ears extending from top of head, blue eyebrows above large gray eyes with red outlines, white eye highlights, green mouth shape at bottom center, gray background, 16-bit color palette, low-resolution raster image, no visible text, static composition, no motion.

Description

  • Pixelated character with purple face, red cat ears, blue eyebrows, gray eyes with red outlines, and green mouth against 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): 165
  • observation title (gallery): 167
  • observation file-name (gallery): 165
  • observation file-name (gallery): 167

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cat face
  • red ears gray eyes
  • pixel art character
  • 16-bit color avatar
  • gray background icon
  • blue eyebrows green mouth
  • static pixel art
  • low-resolution character

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 16-bit color

Subjects

  • character face

Wordwall

  • purple face
  • red cat ears
  • blue eyebrows
  • gray eyes
  • red eye outlines
  • green mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • 16-bit color
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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 (6)
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Full source records (2)
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
165
Archive entry
Favorites/165.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%2F165.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F165.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons 
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
167
Archive entry
Favorites/167.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%2F167.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F167.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons