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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background.

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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background.

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows M…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • close-up
  • single subject

Dense Caption

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair rendered in pixelated style. Character has squinting eyes with black pupils and white highlights. Mouth holds a white cigarette with visible smoke trail. Background is solid gray. Pixelation creates blocky appearance with limited color palette. No visible clothing or additional props. Composition centers character in frame. No animation present.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against 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 topic-coverage: 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): 235
  • observation file-name (gallery): 235

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval character smoking cigarette
  • spiky yellow hair pixel art
  • squinting eyes gray background
  • cigarette smoke pixel art
  • red character yellow hair gray
  • pixelated smoking character
  • cigarette smoke trail pixel art
  • red oval head yellow hair

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  • red oval head
  • spiky yellow hair
  • squinting eyes
  • white cigarette
  • gray background
  • pixelated style
  • smoke trail
  • black pupils
  • white highlights
  • solid background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 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
75bacf6572482d0e
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1041
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090716

OpenAI category scores

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

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,552 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 727

Review tags

  • smoking (action, 0.80)
  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nonchalant (mood, 0.80)
  • smug (mood, 0.80)
  • cigarette (object, 0.80)
  • smoke (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red oval character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smoking
  • squinting

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered
  • close-up
  • single subject

Dense Caption

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair rendered in pixelated style. Character has squinting eyes with black pupils and white highlights. Mouth holds a white cigarette with visible smoke trail. Background is solid gray. Pixelation creates blocky appearance with limited color palette. No visible clothing or additional props. Composition centers character in frame. No animation present.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against 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 topic-coverage: 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): 235
  • observation file-name (gallery): 235

Metadata Only Entities

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  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
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Mood

  • smug
  • nonchalant

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  • spiky yellow hair pixel art
  • squinting eyes gray background
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  • red character yellow hair gray
  • pixelated smoking character
  • cigarette smoke trail pixel art
  • red oval head yellow hair

Objects

  • cigarette
  • smoke

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • red oval character

Wordwall

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  • spiky yellow hair
  • squinting eyes
  • white cigarette
  • gray background
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  • smoke trail
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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
235
Archive entry
Favorites/235.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%2F235.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F235.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons