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Pixelated cartoon head with large black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, and a black nose on a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon head with large black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, and a black nose on a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon head with large black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, and a black nose on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucow…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • cropped head
  • solid background
  • tilted head

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon head with large rounded black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, black nose, and a black mouth. The head is slightly tilted with a neutral expression. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette of black, tan, white, and gray. The rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering. The head is cropped to show only the upper portion from the ears to the chin. The right ear is fully visible, while the left ear is partially cropped. The eyes are large and rounded with white highlights. The mouth is a small black oval. The overall composition is centered with the head facing slightly right.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon head with large black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, and a black nose on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 145
  • observation file-name (gallery): 145

Metadata Only Entities

  • Mickey Mouse

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon head with large black ears
  • tan face white eyes black pupils
  • pixelated cartoon head gray background
  • low-resolution cartoon head neutral expression
  • cropped cartoon head dithered rendering
  • black nose white highlights gray backdrop
  • cartoon head tilted slightly right
  • tan skin black mouth white eyes

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  • large black ears
  • tan face
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • black nose
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • cropped head
  • dithered rendering
  • solid background
  • rounded eyes
  • small black mouth
  • light gray backdrop
  • cartoon head
  • tilted head
  • white highlights
  • black mouth
  • tan skin

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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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 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
6be4ccc390edd0a9
SHA-256
6be4ccc390edd0a90ba26df60566a8d7c0e74fd224ad3adf6917d5f3cb54c79d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon head with large black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, and a black nose on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,498 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,025, response 783

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • tan
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • cropped head
  • solid background
  • tilted head

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon head with large rounded black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, black nose, and a black mouth. The head is slightly tilted with a neutral expression. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette of black, tan, white, and gray. The rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering. The head is cropped to show only the upper portion from the ears to the chin. The right ear is fully visible, while the left ear is partially cropped. The eyes are large and rounded with white highlights. The mouth is a small black oval. The overall composition is centered with the head facing slightly right.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon head with large black ears, tan face, white eyes with black pupils, and a black nose on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 145
  • observation file-name (gallery): 145

Metadata Only Entities

  • Mickey Mouse

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • tan face white eyes black pupils
  • pixelated cartoon head gray background
  • low-resolution cartoon head neutral expression
  • cropped cartoon head dithered rendering
  • black nose white highlights gray backdrop
  • cartoon head tilted slightly right
  • tan skin black mouth white eyes

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  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • cartoon head

Wordwall

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  • white eyes
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  • black nose
  • gray background
  • pixelated
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  • neutral expression
  • cropped head
  • dithered rendering
  • solid background
  • rounded eyes
  • small black mouth
  • light gray backdrop
  • cartoon head
  • tilted head
  • white highlights
  • black mouth
  • tan skin
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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)
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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
145
Archive entry
Favorites/145.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%2F145.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F145.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons