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Pixelated cartoon face with black hair, light purple skin, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth on a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon face with black hair, light purple skin, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth on a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon face with black hair, light purple skin, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Fav…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image of a cartoon face with light purple skin. The face has two large eyes with black pupils and gray irises, a wide black smiling mouth, and short black hair with a small upward spike at the top center. The hair is styled with straight sides and slightly uneven edges. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with black hair, light purple skin, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • 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

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 125
  • 125.ico

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon face pixel art
  • light purple skin black hair
  • smiling cartoon face
  • gray background pixel art
  • black hair spike cartoon
  • pixelated cartoon face
  • light purple cartoon face
  • smiling pixel art face

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • light purple skin
  • black hair
  • wide eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • cartoon face
  • small upward hair spike
  • straight hair sides
  • uneven hair edges

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 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
65f9f9d3a6eaee64
SHA-256
65f9f9d3a6eaee64f2a68e23bc30480220f95e7bceae70627303d378b6634130
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 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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Pixelated cartoon face with black hair, light purple skin, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,621 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,064, response 654

Review tags

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

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image of a cartoon face with light purple skin. The face has two large eyes with black pupils and gray irises, a wide black smiling mouth, and short black hair with a small upward spike at the top center. The hair is styled with straight sides and slightly uneven edges. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with black hair, light purple skin, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • 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

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 125
  • 125.ico

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon face pixel art
  • light purple skin black hair
  • smiling cartoon face
  • gray background pixel art
  • black hair spike cartoon
  • pixelated cartoon face
  • light purple cartoon face
  • smiling pixel art face

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon face

Wordwall

  • light purple skin
  • black hair
  • wide eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • cartoon face
  • small upward hair spike
  • straight hair sides
  • uneven hair edges
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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
125
Archive entry
125.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

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