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Pixelated abstract shape with rounded top and bottom sections, rendered in gradient purple hues on gray background.

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Pixelated abstract shape with rounded top and bottom sections, rendered in gradient purple hues on gray background.

Pixelated abstract shape with rounded top and bottom sections, rendered in gradient purple hues on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • stacked
  • centered
  • vertical

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon composed of two rounded sections stacked vertically; upper section is a smooth dome shape, lower section is a wider rounded base with two small rectangular indentations on its upper edge. The icon uses a gradient of light to medium purple with white highlights, creating a glossy effect. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout the image. No text or additional elements are present.

Description

  • Pixelated abstract shape with rounded top and bottom sections, rendered in gradient purple hues 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): 049
  • observation file-name (gallery): 049

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple gradient abstract shape
  • stacked rounded sections
  • glossy pixel art icon
  • two indentations purple icon
  • gray background pixel art
  • abstract purple icon
  • glossy rounded shape
  • pixelated purple 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

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • two rounded sections
  • purple gradient
  • white highlights
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • glossy effect
  • two indentations
  • stacked vertically

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d623f6978f733931633b555bfa9a9a3ab2cca8701e33f4ed42a856e02873ce3.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
8d623f6978f73393
SHA-256
8d623f6978f733931633b555bfa9a9a3ab2cca8701e33f4ed42a856e02873ce3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.063517

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.936483onnx/unsafe0.063517onnx/nsfw0.032040onnx/nsfl0.031477
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated abstract shape with rounded top and bottom sections, rendered in gradient purple hues on gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,478 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 675

Review tags

  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • glossy (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • stacked
  • centered
  • vertical

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon composed of two rounded sections stacked vertically; upper section is a smooth dome shape, lower section is a wider rounded base with two small rectangular indentations on its upper edge. The icon uses a gradient of light to medium purple with white highlights, creating a glossy effect. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout the image. No text or additional elements are present.

Description

  • Pixelated abstract shape with rounded top and bottom sections, rendered in gradient purple hues 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): 049
  • observation file-name (gallery): 049

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple gradient abstract shape
  • stacked rounded sections
  • glossy pixel art icon
  • two indentations purple icon
  • gray background pixel art
  • abstract purple icon
  • glossy rounded shape
  • pixelated purple 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • abstract
  • glossy

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • two rounded sections
  • purple gradient
  • white highlights
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • glossy effect
  • two indentations
  • stacked vertically
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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
049
Archive entry
Favorites/049.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%2F049.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F049.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons