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Pixelated penguin with black head, white belly, yellow beak and feet, sitting against gray background.

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Pixelated penguin with black head, white belly, yellow beak and feet, sitting against gray background.

Pixelated penguin with black head, white belly, yellow beak and feet, sitting against gray background. 60×71 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures, Early-to…

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Mood

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Composition

  • centered subject
  • full-body view
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a seated penguin. The penguin has a black head and back, white chest and belly, bright yellow beak and webbed feet. It faces forward with large round eyes showing small pupils. The image uses blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics. Background is solid light gray. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin with black head, white belly, yellow beak and feet, sitting against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy4u
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): gallery
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): linux
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 3
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): avatars
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): images
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 3
  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures Relaxed
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: dedicated buddy-icon portal material from the Buddy4u domain
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated penguin with yellow beak
  • seated black and white bird
  • yellow webbed feet pixel art
  • Tux mascot image

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tux (Linux mascot)

Wordwall

  • pixelated penguin
  • black head
  • white belly
  • yellow beak
  • yellow webbed feet
  • seated pose
  • large round eyes
  • blocky pixel art
  • solid gray background

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures

Source title
3
Category
images / avatars / gallery / linux
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:50 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
3
Category
images / avatars / gallery / linux
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:25 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
60×71 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7fd2e254da46352229126f723269b6515b7468aa0f84e9871b76dc687325307f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Archive ID
7fd2e254da463522
SHA-256
7fd2e254da46352229126f723269b6515b7468aa0f84e9871b76dc687325307f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
1093
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.180000

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated penguin with black head, white belly, yellow beak and feet, sitting against gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,817 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,073, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • penguin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • full-body view
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a seated penguin. The penguin has a black head and back, white chest and belly, bright yellow beak and webbed feet. It faces forward with large round eyes showing small pupils. The image uses blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics. Background is solid light gray. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin with black head, white belly, yellow beak and feet, sitting against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy4u
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): gallery
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): linux
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 3
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): avatars
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): images
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 3
  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures Relaxed
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: dedicated buddy-icon portal material from the Buddy4u domain
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated penguin with yellow beak
  • seated black and white bird
  • yellow webbed feet pixel art
  • Tux mascot image

Style

  • pixel art
  • static image

Subjects

  • penguin

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tux (Linux mascot)

Wordwall

  • pixelated penguin
  • black head
  • white belly
  • yellow beak
  • yellow webbed feet
  • seated pose
  • large round eyes
  • blocky pixel art
  • solid gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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 (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures (wayback-buddy4u-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
images / avatars / gallery / linux
Alt
3
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
dedicated buddy-icon portal material from the Buddy4u domain
Original: http://forums.buddy4u.com/images/avatars/gallery/linux/3.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060305131928id_/http://forums.buddy4u.com:80/images/avatars/gallery/linux/3.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy4u.com GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy4u-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
images / avatars / gallery / linux
Alt
3
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size Buddy4u buddy-icon portal candidates, including 100x70 and taller avatar-shaped GIFs
Original: http://forums.buddy4u.com/images/avatars/gallery/linux/3.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060305131928id_/http://forums.buddy4u.com:80/images/avatars/gallery/linux/3.gif