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Pixelated circular face with brown gradient, black oval eyes, two purple square nostrils, and a wide red mouth outlined in black.

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Pixelated circular face with brown gradient, black oval eyes, two purple square nostrils, and a wide red mouth outlined in black.

Pixelated circular face with brown gradient, black oval eyes, two purple square nostrils, and a wide red mouth outlined in black. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • centered circular face
  • horizontal eye placement
  • symmetrical features

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated circular face rendered in shades of brown. It has two solid black oval-shaped eyes positioned horizontally. Below the eyes are two small square purple pixels representing nostrils. The mouth is a large open shape with a thick black outline; the interior is filled with bright red pixels, creating a wide smiling expression. The background is plain light gray. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges around all elements. No text or additional objects appear in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated circular face with brown gradient, black oval eyes, two purple square nostrils, and a wide red mouth outlined in black.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • 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
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • 2000s
  • cartoons
  • animals
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown pixelated face purple nostrils red mouth
  • pixel art cartoon face black eyes purple nose
  • circular brown smiley face gray background
  • red mouth black outline purple nostrils

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image only

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • brown circular face
  • black oval eyes
  • purple square nostrils
  • red mouth
  • black outline
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/97bc846b700859eb505a1e2031ab3324b704a0854ef561c3419455857310bdc2.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:00 UTC
Archive ID
97bc846b700859eb
SHA-256
97bc846b700859eb505a1e2031ab3324b704a0854ef561c3419455857310bdc2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.085555

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated circular face with brown gradient, black oval eyes, two purple square nostrils, and a wide red mouth outlined in black.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,884 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,064, response 554

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • purple
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • centered circular face
  • horizontal eye placement
  • symmetrical features

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated circular face rendered in shades of brown. It has two solid black oval-shaped eyes positioned horizontally. Below the eyes are two small square purple pixels representing nostrils. The mouth is a large open shape with a thick black outline; the interior is filled with bright red pixels, creating a wide smiling expression. The background is plain light gray. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges around all elements. No text or additional objects appear in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated circular face with brown gradient, black oval eyes, two purple square nostrils, and a wide red mouth outlined in black.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • 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
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • 2000s
  • cartoons
  • animals
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown pixelated face purple nostrils red mouth
  • pixel art cartoon face black eyes purple nose
  • circular brown smiley face gray background
  • red mouth black outline purple nostrils

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image only

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • brown circular face
  • black oval eyes
  • purple square nostrils
  • red mouth
  • black outline
  • light gray background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
128
Archive entry
128.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

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