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Pixelated orange circular icon with a wide white-toothed grin, narrowed black eyes, and a light brown top section against a gray background.

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Pixel-exact
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Pixelated orange circular icon with a wide white-toothed grin, narrowed black eyes, and a light brown top section against a gray background.

Pixelated orange circular icon with a wide white-toothed grin, narrowed black eyes, and a light brown top section against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • circular
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated circular shape with a light brown top section and an orange lower section. It has two black eyes with brown pixel accents forming narrowed, squinting shapes. The mouth is a wide, curved white area with multiple white rectangular teeth. The background is solid gray. The icon has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. There are no visible text elements or additional objects.

Description

  • Pixelated orange circular icon with a wide white-toothed grin, narrowed black eyes, and a light brown top section against a 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): 228
  • observation file-name (gallery): 228

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated orange face
  • sly grinning face
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • narrowed eyes white teeth
  • gray background pixel art
  • menacing cartoon face
  • blocky digital art
  • orange circular 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

  • face

Wordwall

  • pixelated circular shape
  • light brown top section
  • orange lower section
  • narrowed black eyes
  • white rectangular teeth
  • gray background
  • low-resolution blocky appearance

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/965aa6bab55dc22e8bc17f1bd0f55b1cfcbaad4c62070fcb9c5f39fa3cb86150.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
965aa6bab55dc22e
SHA-256
965aa6bab55dc22e8bc17f1bd0f55b1cfcbaad4c62070fcb9c5f39fa3cb86150
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077360

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated orange circular icon with a wide white-toothed grin, narrowed black eyes, and a light brown top section against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,419 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,025, response 690

Review tags

  • grinning (action, 0.80)
  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • sly (mood, 0.80)
  • unfriendly (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • grinning
  • squinting

Colors

  • light brown
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • circular
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated circular shape with a light brown top section and an orange lower section. It has two black eyes with brown pixel accents forming narrowed, squinting shapes. The mouth is a wide, curved white area with multiple white rectangular teeth. The background is solid gray. The icon has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. There are no visible text elements or additional objects.

Description

  • Pixelated orange circular icon with a wide white-toothed grin, narrowed black eyes, and a light brown top section against a 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): 228
  • observation file-name (gallery): 228

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Mood

  • menacing
  • sly
  • unfriendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated orange face
  • sly grinning face
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • narrowed eyes white teeth
  • gray background pixel art
  • menacing cartoon face
  • blocky digital art
  • orange circular 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
  • low-resolution
  • abstract

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • pixelated circular shape
  • light brown top section
  • orange lower section
  • narrowed black eyes
  • white rectangular teeth
  • gray background
  • low-resolution blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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
228
Archive entry
Favorites/228.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%2F228.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F228.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons