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Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair, one eye open and one eye closed in a wink, smiling face on gray background.

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Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

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Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair, one eye open and one eye closed in a wink, smiling face on gray background.

Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair, one eye open and one eye closed in a wink, smiling face on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair extending from top of head, one eye open with white and black pixels, one eye closed with dark pixel line, smiling mouth with curved dark pixel line, gray background, pixelated rendering style, no visible clothing or props, no text present.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair, one eye open and one eye closed in a wink, smiling face on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 231
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 231
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval winking figure
  • yellow spiky hair smile
  • pixelated gray background icon
  • one eye closed smile icon

Wordwall

  • red oval figure
  • spiky yellow hair
  • one open eye
  • one closed eye
  • smiling mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6fe80867e5eaf7171dd87af3252f5108c463409e5c59533ac30ce02397db7921.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
6fe80867e5eaf717
SHA-256
6fe80867e5eaf7171dd87af3252f5108c463409e5c59533ac30ce02397db7921
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081944

OpenAI category scores

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

Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair, one eye open and one eye closed in a wink, smiling face on gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,968 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 566

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • winking (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • red oval figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • winking
  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered figure
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair extending from top of head, one eye open with white and black pixels, one eye closed with dark pixel line, smiling mouth with curved dark pixel line, gray background, pixelated rendering style, no visible clothing or props, no text present.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped figure with spiky yellow hair, one eye open and one eye closed in a wink, smiling face on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 231
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 231
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval winking figure
  • yellow spiky hair smile
  • pixelated gray background icon
  • one eye closed smile icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract

Subjects

  • red oval figure

Wordwall

  • red oval figure
  • spiky yellow hair
  • one open eye
  • one closed eye
  • smiling mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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
231
Archive entry
Favorites/231.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%2F231.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F231.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons