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Pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair, light skin, and a red-and-white checkered shirt against a gray background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair, light skin, and a red-and-white checkered shirt against a gray background.

Pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair, light skin, and a red-and-white checkered shirt against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • shoulder-cropped
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art portrait of a person with brown hair styled in a short, slightly tousled cut. The face has light skin tone, closed eyes, a straight nose, and a neutral mouth. The person wears a red-and-white checkered shirt with visible white collar. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is prominent throughout the image, with no visible text or additional objects. The composition is centered, cropped at the shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair, light skin, and a red-and-white checkered shirt 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): 077
  • observation file-name (gallery): 077

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair pixel art
  • red checkered shirt gray background
  • closed eyes pixel portrait
  • neutral expression pixel art
  • shoulder cropped pixel image
  • light skin pixel art
  • gray background pixel portrait
  • red white checkered shirt pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • no animation frames observed

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

  • brown hair
  • light skin
  • closed eyes
  • red-and-white checkered shirt
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • centered composition
  • shoulder-cropped
  • no visible text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/83b5571183230c94eee11f2604d68f7082afecc75d2491f8ca4bd1082785beee.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
83b5571183230c94
SHA-256
83b5571183230c94eee11f2604d68f7082afecc75d2491f8ca4bd1082785beee
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
1111
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078588

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921412onnx/unsafe0.078588onnx/nsfw0.043180onnx/nsfl0.035408
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair, light skin, and a red-and-white checkered shirt against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,073 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 713

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light gray
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • shoulder-cropped
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art portrait of a person with brown hair styled in a short, slightly tousled cut. The face has light skin tone, closed eyes, a straight nose, and a neutral mouth. The person wears a red-and-white checkered shirt with visible white collar. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is prominent throughout the image, with no visible text or additional objects. The composition is centered, cropped at the shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair, light skin, and a red-and-white checkered shirt 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): 077
  • observation file-name (gallery): 077

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair pixel art
  • red checkered shirt gray background
  • closed eyes pixel portrait
  • neutral expression pixel art
  • shoulder cropped pixel image
  • light skin pixel art
  • gray background pixel portrait
  • red white checkered shirt pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • no animation frames observed

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
  • static
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin
  • closed eyes
  • red-and-white checkered shirt
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • centered composition
  • shoulder-cropped
  • no visible text
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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
077
Archive entry
Favorites/077.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%2F077.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F077.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons