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Pixelated cartoon face with blue hair, red bow, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling expression on a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon face with blue hair, red bow, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling expression on a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon face with blue hair, red bow, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling expression on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • face-focused
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated cartoon face with a light skin tone. The character has short blue hair with a red bow on the left side. The character wears black-rimmed glasses with large white eyes and black pupils. The mouth is a simple curved line forming a smile. The background is solid gray. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. The character's hair extends slightly below the head on the right side. The left side of the hair has a small strand hanging down. The red bow is positioned on the upper left side of the blue hair. The glasses have thick black frames. The eyes are large and round with white sclera and black pupils. The eyebrows are thin and dark. The overall composition is centered on the face with no additional objects or text.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with blue hair, red bow, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling expression on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • 121

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red bow glasses smiling face
  • pixelated cartoon face gray background
  • red bow blue hair black glasses
  • smiling cartoon face pixel art
  • blue hair red bow gray background
  • glasses pixel art cartoon face
  • red bow blue hair smiling face
  • cartoon face blue hair red bow

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

  • blue hair
  • red bow
  • black-rimmed glasses
  • smiling face
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • large eyes
  • thin eyebrows
  • light skin tone
  • solid background
  • dithering
  • hair extends below head
  • small strand on left
  • thick glasses frames
  • white sclera
  • black pupils
  • curved smile
  • centered composition

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8ea308ddece4c92d18d8a42bd16f07e25ab9f2d943d2416d5c4d6c2681f53228.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
8ea308ddece4c92d
SHA-256
8ea308ddece4c92d18d8a42bd16f07e25ab9f2d943d2416d5c4d6c2681f53228
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083345

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916655onnx/unsafe0.083345onnx/nsfw0.058062onnx/nsfl0.025283
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon face with blue hair, red bow, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling expression on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,029 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 853

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • glasses (object, 0.80)
  • red bow (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon face (subject, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • beige

Composition

  • centered
  • face-focused
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated cartoon face with a light skin tone. The character has short blue hair with a red bow on the left side. The character wears black-rimmed glasses with large white eyes and black pupils. The mouth is a simple curved line forming a smile. The background is solid gray. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. The character's hair extends slightly below the head on the right side. The left side of the hair has a small strand hanging down. The red bow is positioned on the upper left side of the blue hair. The glasses have thick black frames. The eyes are large and round with white sclera and black pupils. The eyebrows are thin and dark. The overall composition is centered on the face with no additional objects or text.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with blue hair, red bow, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling expression on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • 121

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red bow glasses smiling face
  • pixelated cartoon face gray background
  • red bow blue hair black glasses
  • smiling cartoon face pixel art
  • blue hair red bow gray background
  • glasses pixel art cartoon face
  • red bow blue hair smiling face
  • cartoon face blue hair red bow

Objects

  • red bow
  • 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
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon face
  • character

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • red bow
  • black-rimmed glasses
  • smiling face
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • large eyes
  • thin eyebrows
  • light skin tone
  • solid background
  • dithering
  • hair extends below head
  • small strand on left
  • thick glasses frames
  • white sclera
  • black pupils
  • curved smile
  • centered composition
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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)
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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
121
Archive entry
Favorites/121.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%2F121.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F121.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons