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Pixelated icon of a light purple face with black hair, two eyes, and a smiling mouth against a gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
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Pixelated icon of a light purple face with black hair, two eyes, and a smiling mouth against a gray background.

Pixelated icon of a light purple face with black hair, two eyes, and a smiling mouth against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • square frame

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon shows a light purple face with black hair styled in a short, rounded cut. The face has two eyes with gray and black pupils, and a black smiling mouth. The background is solid light gray. The icon uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges. No clothing, props, or text are present. The face is centered in the frame with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a light purple face with black hair, two eyes, and a smiling mouth against a 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): 125
  • observation file-name (gallery): 125

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light purple face black hair
  • pixelated smiling face gray background
  • low-resolution pixel art face
  • centered smiling face icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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 purple face
  • black hair
  • two eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
  • centered composition

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/62209e9b64809fd89dda41c9cb2e52cb0b8dcb877375c6ce1c64abd8cf27f54c.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
62209e9b64809fd8
SHA-256
62209e9b64809fd89dda41c9cb2e52cb0b8dcb877375c6ce1c64abd8cf27f54c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103437

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon of a light purple face with black hair, two eyes, and a smiling mouth against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 645

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • square frame

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon shows a light purple face with black hair styled in a short, rounded cut. The face has two eyes with gray and black pupils, and a black smiling mouth. The background is solid light gray. The icon uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges. No clothing, props, or text are present. The face is centered in the frame with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a light purple face with black hair, two eyes, and a smiling mouth against a 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): 125
  • observation file-name (gallery): 125

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light purple face black hair
  • pixelated smiling face gray background
  • low-resolution pixel art face
  • centered smiling face icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • light purple face
  • black hair
  • two eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
  • centered composition
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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
125
Archive entry
Favorites/125.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%2F125.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F125.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons