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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair showing three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair showing three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair showing three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from My Buddy I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • expression changes: neutral to sad to smiling

Animation Summary

  • Character displays three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

Composition

  • three expressions arranged in a
  • top-left, top-right, bottom

Dense Caption

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair. Top-left expression: white eyes with black pupils, straight horizontal mouth. Top-right expression: eyes angled downward, downturned mouth. Bottom expression: closed eyes, wide open mouth showing white teeth. All three expressions share the same red oval head, yellow spiky hair, and white outline. Background is solid light gray. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair showing three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons v4
  • February 2006
  • Animated Favorites
  • 068
  • mybuddy4

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval character yellow hair
  • spiky yellow hair neutral sad smiling
  • three facial expressions pixelated
  • red character white eyes black pupils
  • yellow spiky hair gray background
  • neutral sad smiling expression changes
  • white teeth closed eyes
  • pixelated cartoon character expressions

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined composition: three expressions arranged in a grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 068
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • red oval head
  • spiky yellow hair
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • straight mouth
  • downward eyes
  • downturned mouth
  • closed eyes
  • white teeth
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • three expressions

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82e191e5ceb3d9bba0cef9ad531d3eeb03e0133b0865d5ed8cff0fd2a4265eba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Archive ID
82e191e5ceb3d9bb
SHA-256
82e191e5ceb3d9bba0cef9ad531d3eeb03e0133b0865d5ed8cff0fd2a4265eba
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080580

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927477onnx/unsafe0.080580onnx/nsfw0.047543onnx/nsfl0.033037
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair showing three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,077 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 847

Review tags

  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • sad expression (action, 0.80)
  • smiling expression (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • red oval character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • neutral expression
  • sad expression
  • smiling expression

Animation

  • expression changes: neutral to sad to smiling

Animation Summary

  • Character displays three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three expressions arranged in a
  • top-left, top-right, bottom

Dense Caption

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair. Top-left expression: white eyes with black pupils, straight horizontal mouth. Top-right expression: eyes angled downward, downturned mouth. Bottom expression: closed eyes, wide open mouth showing white teeth. All three expressions share the same red oval head, yellow spiky hair, and white outline. Background is solid light gray. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair showing three distinct facial expressions: neutral, sad, and smiling with teeth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons v4
  • February 2006
  • Animated Favorites
  • 068
  • mybuddy4

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Mood

  • neutral
  • sad
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red oval character yellow hair
  • spiky yellow hair neutral sad smiling
  • three facial expressions pixelated
  • red character white eyes black pupils
  • yellow spiky hair gray background
  • neutral sad smiling expression changes
  • white teeth closed eyes
  • pixelated cartoon character expressions

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined composition: three expressions arranged in a grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 068
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • red oval character

Wordwall

  • red oval head
  • spiky yellow hair
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • straight mouth
  • downward eyes
  • downturned mouth
  • closed eyes
  • white teeth
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • three expressions
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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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Source semantic tags (3)
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Full source records (1)
My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites (wayback-my-buddy-icons-v4-2006-extracted-favorites)
Kind
local-directory
Era
2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
Type
safely extracted official animated Favorites library from an archived AIM utility
Title
068
Archive entry
068.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Rights
vendor-authored commercial utility assets; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#068.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#068.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060314182033/http://www.buddy-icons.com/download.htm