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Pixelated cartoon head with black hair, pinkish skin, a single visible eye, and a mustache against a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon head with black hair, pinkish skin, a single visible eye, and a mustache against a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon head with black hair, pinkish skin, a single visible eye, and a mustache against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a stylized head viewed in profile. The head has smooth, rounded contours with a light pinkish skin tone. A single visible eye is represented by a curved gray shape with a white highlight. A thick black mustache extends from the lower part of the face. The head is topped with solid black hair that forms a smooth, curved shape. The background is a uniform light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon head with black hair, pinkish skin, a single visible eye, and a mustache against a 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): 101
  • observation file-name (gallery): 101

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink head black hair mustache
  • pixelated profile eye mustache
  • gray background cartoon head
  • black hair pink skin mustache

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

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • pinkish skin
  • black hair
  • single eye
  • mustache
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • smooth contours
  • gray eye shape
  • white highlight

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/839f069b27cb44f52b8467d638bc47c6a48ff1d3506b9baee93e1c863630f59c.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
839f069b27cb44f5
SHA-256
839f069b27cb44f52b8467d638bc47c6a48ff1d3506b9baee93e1c863630f59c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074661

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925339onnx/unsafe0.074661onnx/nsfw0.051436onnx/nsfl0.023225
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon head with black hair, pinkish skin, a single visible eye, and a mustache against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,802 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 688

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • pinkish

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a stylized head viewed in profile. The head has smooth, rounded contours with a light pinkish skin tone. A single visible eye is represented by a curved gray shape with a white highlight. A thick black mustache extends from the lower part of the face. The head is topped with solid black hair that forms a smooth, curved shape. The background is a uniform light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon head with black hair, pinkish skin, a single visible eye, and a mustache against a 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): 101
  • observation file-name (gallery): 101

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink head black hair mustache
  • pixelated profile eye mustache
  • gray background cartoon head
  • black hair pink skin mustache

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

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • stylized

Subjects

  • head

Wordwall

  • pinkish skin
  • black hair
  • single eye
  • mustache
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • smooth contours
  • gray eye shape
  • white highlight
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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)
Raw JSON
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
101
Archive entry
Favorites/101.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%2F101.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F101.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons