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A pixelated yellow circular face with one large black eye and one small black eye, a curved black smile, and white outline against gray background.

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A pixelated yellow circular face with one large black eye and one small black eye, a curved black smile, and white outline against gray background.

A pixelated yellow circular face with one large black eye and one small black eye, a curved black smile, and white outline against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from M…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered circular face
  • symmetrical arrangement of eyes and mouth

Dense Caption

The image shows a static 8-bit style icon of a round yellow face. The face has two distinct black eyes: the left eye is significantly larger than the right eye. Both eyes are solid black with no pupils or highlights. A single curved black line forms a smiling mouth below the eyes. The face has a white outline and subtle shading to suggest a rounded shape, with lighter pixels at the top indicating a light source. The background is a uniform medium gray color. The icon uses limited pixel resolution typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated yellow circular face with one large black eye and one small black eye, a curved black smile, and white outline against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • 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
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • 2000s
  • cartoons
  • animals
  • expressive faces
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face with one large eye
  • pixelated smiley icon
  • 8-bit cartoon face
  • one big eye one small eye emoji

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • one large black eye
  • one small black eye
  • black curved smile
  • white outline
  • gray background
  • pixelated 8-bit style
  • solid black eyes
  • subtle shading

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 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 22:06 UTC
Archive ID
7b3106f42dbbedc4
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1069
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087386

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated yellow circular face with one large black eye and one small black eye, a curved black smile, and white outline against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:46 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,808 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,061, response 642

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
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Actions

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Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered circular face
  • symmetrical arrangement of eyes and mouth

Dense Caption

The image shows a static 8-bit style icon of a round yellow face. The face has two distinct black eyes: the left eye is significantly larger than the right eye. Both eyes are solid black with no pupils or highlights. A single curved black line forms a smiling mouth below the eyes. The face has a white outline and subtle shading to suggest a rounded shape, with lighter pixels at the top indicating a light source. The background is a uniform medium gray color. The icon uses limited pixel resolution typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated yellow circular face with one large black eye and one small black eye, a curved black smile, and white outline against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • 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
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • 2000s
  • cartoons
  • animals
  • expressive faces
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face with one large eye
  • pixelated smiley icon
  • 8-bit cartoon face
  • one big eye one small eye emoji

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • yellow circular face
  • one large black eye
  • one small black eye
  • black curved smile
  • white outline
  • gray background
  • pixelated 8-bit style
  • solid black eyes
  • subtle shading
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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
229
Archive entry
229.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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