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Pixelated green character with spiky hair, small black eyes, a subtle smile, and a yellow circular earring on the right side.

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Pixel-exact
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Pixelated green character with spiky hair, small black eyes, a subtle smile, and a yellow circular earring on the right side.

Pixelated green character with spiky hair, small black eyes, a subtle smile, and a yellow circular earring on the right side. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tuco…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a green character with spiky, irregularly shaped hair in varying shades of green. The character has small black circular eyes, a subtle curved mouth, and a single yellow circular earring on the right side. A white highlight appears on the forehead. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and no additional clothing or props.

Description

  • Pixelated green character with spiky hair, small black eyes, a subtle smile, and a yellow circular earring on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 057
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green character yellow earring
  • pixel art green character
  • spiky hair yellow earring
  • green character gray background
  • yellow earring pixel art
  • green character black eyes
  • pixel art yellow earring
  • green character white highlight

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

Wordwall

  • green character
  • spiky hair
  • black eyes
  • yellow earring
  • white highlight
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • subtle smile
  • single earring
  • irregular hair shape

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c3476619bcf9612c632a366bb02154912c15a46f1e1d1952a44fff398f9bfb7.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
9c3476619bcf9612
SHA-256
9c3476619bcf9612c632a366bb02154912c15a46f1e1d1952a44fff398f9bfb7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070947

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated green character with spiky hair, small black eyes, a subtle smile, and a yellow circular earring on the right side.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,099 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 690

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow earring (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • green character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a green character with spiky, irregularly shaped hair in varying shades of green. The character has small black circular eyes, a subtle curved mouth, and a single yellow circular earring on the right side. A white highlight appears on the forehead. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and no additional clothing or props.

Description

  • Pixelated green character with spiky hair, small black eyes, a subtle smile, and a yellow circular earring on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 057
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green character yellow earring
  • pixel art green character
  • spiky hair yellow earring
  • green character gray background
  • yellow earring pixel art
  • green character black eyes
  • pixel art yellow earring
  • green character white highlight

Objects

  • yellow earring

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

  • green character

Wordwall

  • green character
  • spiky hair
  • black eyes
  • yellow earring
  • white highlight
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • subtle smile
  • single earring
  • irregular hair shape
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:24 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
057
Archive entry
Favorites/057.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%2F057.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F057.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons