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Pixelated blue circular icon with light blue face, black eyes, and a smiling mouth, featuring a side-swept blue and teal hair strand.

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Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Pixelated blue circular icon with light blue face, black eyes, and a smiling mouth, featuring a side-swept blue and teal hair strand.

Pixelated blue circular icon with light blue face, black eyes, and a smiling mouth, featuring a side-swept blue and teal hair strand. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • centered face
  • side-swept hair

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated circular image with a light blue face and darker blue outer edges. It has two black eyes with curved eyelashes, a small black smiling mouth, and light gray eyebrows. A side-swept strand of hair extends from the top right, transitioning from blue to teal. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated blue circular icon with light blue face, black eyes, and a smiling mouth, featuring a side-swept blue and teal hair strand.

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): 158
  • observation file-name (gallery): 158

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blue face
  • side-swept blue teal hair
  • black smiling mouth
  • light gray eyebrows
  • circular icon
  • low-resolution
  • teal hair transition
  • light blue background

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

  • pixelated
  • circular
  • light blue face
  • dark blue outer edges
  • black eyes
  • curved eyelashes
  • black smiling mouth
  • light gray eyebrows
  • side-swept hair
  • blue to teal transition
  • solid light gray background
  • limited color palette
  • visible pixelation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8fbe41299818bd78f1bc352c11d557c01fc5963aaa86f8d3006ade6996005ceb.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
8fbe41299818bd78
SHA-256
8fbe41299818bd78f1bc352c11d557c01fc5963aaa86f8d3006ade6996005ceb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:53 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077982

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922018onnx/unsafe0.077982onnx/nsfw0.043604onnx/nsfl0.034378
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue circular icon with light blue face, black eyes, and a smiling mouth, featuring a side-swept blue and teal hair strand.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,787 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,026, response 736

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • bundled icon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • black
  • light gray
  • teal

Composition

  • circular
  • centered face
  • side-swept hair

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated circular image with a light blue face and darker blue outer edges. It has two black eyes with curved eyelashes, a small black smiling mouth, and light gray eyebrows. A side-swept strand of hair extends from the top right, transitioning from blue to teal. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated blue circular icon with light blue face, black eyes, and a smiling mouth, featuring a side-swept blue and teal hair strand.

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): 158
  • observation file-name (gallery): 158

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • happy
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blue face
  • side-swept blue teal hair
  • black smiling mouth
  • light gray eyebrows
  • circular icon
  • low-resolution
  • teal hair transition
  • light blue background

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
  • bundled icon

Subjects

  • face
  • hair

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • circular
  • light blue face
  • dark blue outer edges
  • black eyes
  • curved eyelashes
  • black smiling mouth
  • light gray eyebrows
  • side-swept hair
  • blue to teal transition
  • solid light gray background
  • limited color palette
  • visible pixelation
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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
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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
158
Archive entry
Favorites/158.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%2F158.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F158.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons