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Pixelated face with light brown skin tone wearing a dark gray top hat, squinting eyes, and a small smile against a light gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

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Pixelated face with light brown skin tone wearing a dark gray top hat, squinting eyes, and a small smile against a light gray background.

Pixelated face with light brown skin tone wearing a dark gray top hat, squinting eyes, and a small smile against a light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • top hat above face

Dense Caption

Pixelated face with light brown skin tone, dark gray top hat with flat brim, squinted eyes with gray eyelids and black pupils, small curved smile, light gray background, pixelated rendering style, no visible text, single static image with no animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated face with light brown skin tone wearing a dark gray top hat, squinting eyes, and a small smile against a 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): 153
  • observation file-name (gallery): 153

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • abstract graphics
  • cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown pixelated face top hat
  • dark gray top hat squinted eyes
  • pixelated face light gray background
  • top hat squinted eyes small smile

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

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

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • light brown skin tone
  • dark gray top hat
  • squinted eyes
  • small smile
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • no visible text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/60618f0a35d4801bb6eb9254bf8fcf20962ed5cb7cf661222fe846d227035eed.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
60618f0a35d4801b
SHA-256
60618f0a35d4801bb6eb9254bf8fcf20962ed5cb7cf661222fe846d227035eed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072679

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927321onnx/unsafe0.072679onnx/nsfw0.039795onnx/nsfl0.032884
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated face with light brown skin tone wearing a dark gray top hat, squinting eyes, and a small smile against a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • top hat (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark gray
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered face
  • top hat above face

Dense Caption

Pixelated face with light brown skin tone, dark gray top hat with flat brim, squinted eyes with gray eyelids and black pupils, small curved smile, light gray background, pixelated rendering style, no visible text, single static image with no animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated face with light brown skin tone wearing a dark gray top hat, squinting eyes, and a small smile against a 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): 153
  • observation file-name (gallery): 153

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • abstract graphics
  • cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown pixelated face top hat
  • dark gray top hat squinted eyes
  • pixelated face light gray background
  • top hat squinted eyes small smile

Objects

  • top hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

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

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • light brown skin tone
  • dark gray top hat
  • squinted eyes
  • small smile
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • no visible text
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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
153
Archive entry
Favorites/153.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%2F153.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F153.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons