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Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • gray background
  • partial left arm visible

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background. Character's head tilted back, mouth open, eyes closed. Yellow star held in right hand, positioned near chest. Shirt has dark blue body with red collar. Background is solid gray. Pixelation is prominent, with visible blocky edges and limited color palette. Character's left arm is partially visible, holding smaller yellow shape. No text visible in image.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 204
  • 204.ico
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character brown hair black headband
  • dark blue shirt red collar yellow star
  • gray background pixelated cartoon
  • character holding yellow star
  • yellow star gray background
  • brown hair black headband dark blue shirt
  • character eyes closed mouth open
  • yellow star right hand

Objects

  • yellow star

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black headband
  • dark blue shirt
  • red collar
  • yellow star
  • gray background
  • head tilted back
  • mouth open
  • eyes closed
  • left arm partially visible
  • smaller yellow shape
  • pixelated
  • blocky edges
  • limited color palette
  • character's right hand holding star
  • shirt collar red

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:04 UTC
Archive ID
90f3364586727d4a
SHA-256
90f3364586727d4af38aba1a9c759d3b88ed2ceab147b98f497824eac96c3e04
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080160

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,614 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,062, response 961

Review tags

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  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • opening mouth (action, 0.80)
  • tilting head (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • exuberant (mood, 0.80)
  • joyful (mood, 0.80)
  • smaller yellow shape (object, 0.80)
  • yellow star (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • tilting head
  • opening mouth
  • closing eyes

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • dark blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • gray background
  • partial left arm visible

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background. Character's head tilted back, mouth open, eyes closed. Yellow star held in right hand, positioned near chest. Shirt has dark blue body with red collar. Background is solid gray. Pixelation is prominent, with visible blocky edges and limited color palette. Character's left arm is partially visible, holding smaller yellow shape. No text visible in image.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star, gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3
  • 204
  • 204.ico
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery
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  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Mood

  • joyful
  • exuberant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • dark blue shirt red collar yellow star
  • gray background pixelated cartoon
  • character holding yellow star
  • yellow star gray background
  • brown hair black headband dark blue shirt
  • character eyes closed mouth open
  • yellow star right hand

Objects

  • yellow star
  • smaller yellow shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

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  • black headband
  • dark blue shirt
  • red collar
  • yellow star
  • gray background
  • head tilted back
  • mouth open
  • eyes closed
  • left arm partially visible
  • smaller yellow shape
  • pixelated
  • blocky edges
  • limited color palette
  • character's right hand holding star
  • shirt collar red
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Full source records (1)

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
204
Archive entry
204.ico
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#204.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#204.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons