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Pixelated red cylindrical figure with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail on gray background.

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Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

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Pixelated red cylindrical figure with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail on gray background.

Pixelated red cylindrical figure with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • single subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a red cylindrical body with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail. The figure has a rounded head with blue cap, white arms extending from sides, and a curved white tail. The background is solid light gray. The image uses blocky pixelation with visible dithering. The figure's expression is neutral with wide eyes. The red body has subtle shading variations. The blue cap is solid color. The white arms have slight gray shading. The tail curves from the lower right. The figure is centered in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated red cylindrical figure with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail on 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): 021
  • observation file-name (gallery): 021

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • mybuddy3
  • 021

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cylindrical figure blue cap
  • pixelated red figure white eyes
  • blue cap white arms gray background
  • red body blue cap white tail
  • pixel art neutral expression gray background
  • blocky dithered red figure
  • white eyes black pupils blue cap
  • red cylindrical body gray background

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

Wordwall

  • red cylindrical body
  • blue cap
  • white arms
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • curved white tail
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • blocky dithering
  • neutral expression
  • shaded red body
  • solid blue cap
  • gray-shaded arms
  • curved tail
  • centered composition
  • light gray background
  • wide eyes
  • no visible text
  • no clothing
  • no props

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/80358f63e45f9070a95069e845ad50d999597f21c913eee0fcc6ee96c8f29332.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
80358f63e45f9070
SHA-256
80358f63e45f9070a95069e845ad50d999597f21c913eee0fcc6ee96c8f29332
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
1095
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108175

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated red cylindrical figure with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail on gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,953 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 798

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red cylindrical figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered
  • single subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a red cylindrical body with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail. The figure has a rounded head with blue cap, white arms extending from sides, and a curved white tail. The background is solid light gray. The image uses blocky pixelation with visible dithering. The figure's expression is neutral with wide eyes. The red body has subtle shading variations. The blue cap is solid color. The white arms have slight gray shading. The tail curves from the lower right. The figure is centered in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated red cylindrical figure with blue cap, white arms, large white eyes with black pupils, and a curved white tail on 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): 021
  • observation file-name (gallery): 021

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • mybuddy3
  • 021

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated red figure white eyes
  • blue cap white arms gray background
  • red body blue cap white tail
  • pixel art neutral expression gray background
  • blocky dithered red figure
  • white eyes black pupils blue cap
  • red cylindrical body gray background

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

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • dithered

Subjects

  • red cylindrical figure

Wordwall

  • red cylindrical body
  • blue cap
  • white arms
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • curved white tail
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • blocky dithering
  • neutral expression
  • shaded red body
  • solid blue cap
  • gray-shaded arms
  • curved tail
  • centered composition
  • light gray background
  • wide eyes
  • no visible text
  • no clothing
  • no props
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:24 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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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
021
Archive entry
Favorites/021.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%2F021.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F021.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons