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Pixelated circular icon shows a stylized face with blonde hair, a red bindi, and closed eyes, set against a gray background.

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Pixelated circular icon shows a stylized face with blonde hair, a red bindi, and closed eyes, set against a gray background.

Pixelated circular icon shows a stylized face with blonde hair, a red bindi, and closed eyes, set against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucow…

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About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • centered face
  • side-swept hair

Dense Caption

Pixelated circular icon depicts a stylized face with closed eyes, a small red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression. The face has light skin tone, black eyebrows, and a black mouth. Hair is blonde with green and yellow highlights, styled in a side-swept manner with a single strand visible on the left. Background is solid light gray. The icon uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon shows a stylized face with blonde hair, a red bindi, and closed eyes, set 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): 141
  • observation file-name (gallery): 141

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • closed eyes red bindi blonde hair
  • pixelated face gray background
  • stylized face bindi
  • blonde hair green yellow highlights

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

  • closed eyes
  • red bindi
  • blonde hair
  • green and yellow highlights
  • light skin tone
  • black eyebrows
  • neutral expression
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated
  • circular shape

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/70/70fbc8bfa7683b15e97dba129d5165bb7abd51645765c72d9dcaa57235e880ae.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
70fbc8bfa7683b15
SHA-256
70fbc8bfa7683b15e97dba129d5165bb7abd51645765c72d9dcaa57235e880ae
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079498

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated circular icon shows a stylized face with blonde hair, a red bindi, and closed eyes, set against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,358 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 719

Review tags

  • blonde (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • serene (mood, 0.80)
  • bindi (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blonde
  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • light gray
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • circular
  • centered face
  • side-swept hair

Dense Caption

Pixelated circular icon depicts a stylized face with closed eyes, a small red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression. The face has light skin tone, black eyebrows, and a black mouth. Hair is blonde with green and yellow highlights, styled in a side-swept manner with a single strand visible on the left. Background is solid light gray. The icon uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon shows a stylized face with blonde hair, a red bindi, and closed eyes, set 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): 141
  • observation file-name (gallery): 141

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Mood

  • calm
  • serene

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • closed eyes red bindi blonde hair
  • pixelated face gray background
  • stylized face bindi
  • blonde hair green yellow highlights

Objects

  • bindi

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

  • pixelated
  • stylized
  • abstract

Subjects

  • face
  • hair

Wordwall

  • closed eyes
  • red bindi
  • blonde hair
  • green and yellow highlights
  • light skin tone
  • black eyebrows
  • neutral expression
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated
  • circular shape
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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
141
Archive entry
Favorites/141.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%2F141.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F141.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons