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Pixelated face with black spiky hair, red bindi on forehead, glasses, and a slight smile against gray background.

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Pixelated face with black spiky hair, red bindi on forehead, glasses, and a slight smile against gray background.

Pixelated face with black spiky hair, red bindi on forehead, glasses, and a slight smile against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a stylized face with black spiky hair extending upward and outward with scattered white pixels. A small red square bindi sits centered on the forehead. The face has gray skin tone, black glasses with white highlights on lenses, and a subtle curved black mouth. The background is solid light gray. The image uses low-resolution pixelation with visible dithering and blocky rendering. No clothing or additional props are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black spiky hair, red bindi on forehead, glasses, and a slight smile against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • mybuddy3
  • 116

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red bindi pixel art
  • spiky hair glasses face
  • gray background pixel icon
  • low-resolution face icon

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

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • red bindi
  • black spiky hair
  • gray skin
  • glasses
  • subtle smile
  • pixelated art
  • solid gray background
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky rendering

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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 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b789691201f81efa79b1fb23cc57f3047db32fc8253b9be4e18fa8ddf654406.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
8b789691201f81ef
SHA-256
8b789691201f81efa79b1fb23cc57f3047db32fc8253b9be4e18fa8ddf654406
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087372

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912628onnx/unsafe0.087372onnx/nsfw0.053518onnx/nsfl0.033854
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated face with black spiky hair, red bindi on forehead, glasses, and a slight smile against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,059 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 649

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • glasses (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a stylized face with black spiky hair extending upward and outward with scattered white pixels. A small red square bindi sits centered on the forehead. The face has gray skin tone, black glasses with white highlights on lenses, and a subtle curved black mouth. The background is solid light gray. The image uses low-resolution pixelation with visible dithering and blocky rendering. No clothing or additional props are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black spiky hair, red bindi on forehead, glasses, and a slight smile against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • mybuddy3
  • 116

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red bindi pixel art
  • spiky hair glasses face
  • gray background pixel icon
  • low-resolution face icon

Objects

  • glasses

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
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • red bindi
  • black spiky hair
  • gray skin
  • glasses
  • subtle smile
  • pixelated art
  • solid gray background
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:25 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
116
Archive entry
Favorites/116.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%2F116.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F116.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons