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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, dark brown hair, and a red cowboy hat, hand near face, neutral expression on gray background.

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2
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1
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1
Perceptual
0

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, dark brown hair, and a red cowboy hat, hand near face, neutral expression on gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, dark brown hair, and a red cowboy hat, hand near face, neutral expression on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow-orange skin tone, dark brown hair styled in two side sections, wearing a solid red cowboy hat with a rounded crown and wide brim. The character has black pixelated eyes with small white highlights, a small black pixelated mouth, and a hand positioned near the right cheek. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The character's head is slightly tilted, and the right eye appears partially closed.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, dark brown hair, and a red cowboy hat, hand near face, neutral expression 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): 213
  • observation file-name (gallery): 213

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character red cowboy hat
  • pixelated hand near face gray background
  • dark brown hair cowboy hat neutral expression
  • yellow skin red hat gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation 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

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • red cowboy hat
  • dark brown hair
  • hand near face
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • small white eye highlights
  • black mouth
  • tilted head

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8e9a8ce4f738d76d9f5457e350823b53b4611bc0dc1cd982d549cbb1d16681b1.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
8e9a8ce4f738d76d
SHA-256
8e9a8ce4f738d76d9f5457e350823b53b4611bc0dc1cd982d549cbb1d16681b1
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Run
1290
Input
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Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010266

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
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1127
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, dark brown hair, and a red cowboy hat, hand near face, neutral expression on gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,510 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 728

Review tags

  • hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cowboy hat (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near face

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • dark brown
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow-orange skin tone, dark brown hair styled in two side sections, wearing a solid red cowboy hat with a rounded crown and wide brim. The character has black pixelated eyes with small white highlights, a small black pixelated mouth, and a hand positioned near the right cheek. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The character's head is slightly tilted, and the right eye appears partially closed.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, dark brown hair, and a red cowboy hat, hand near face, neutral expression 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): 213
  • observation file-name (gallery): 213

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

  • yellow cartoon character red cowboy hat
  • pixelated hand near face gray background
  • dark brown hair cowboy hat neutral expression
  • yellow skin red hat gray background pixel art

Objects

  • cowboy hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation 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
  • cartoon
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • red cowboy hat
  • dark brown hair
  • hand near face
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • small white eye highlights
  • black mouth
  • tilted head
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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
213
Archive entry
Favorites/213.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%2F213.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F213.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons