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Pixelated figure with brown hair wearing red shirt and shorts, white socks, and dark shoes against gray background.

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Pixelated figure with brown hair wearing red shirt and shorts, white socks, and dark shoes against gray background.

Pixelated figure with brown hair wearing red shirt and shorts, white socks, and dark shoes against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with brown hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression. Wearing red short-sleeve shirt with dark rectangular detail on chest, red shorts with light pink waistband, white socks, and dark shoes with light stripes. Arms are slightly extended from sides. Background is solid light gray. Rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated figure with brown hair wearing red shirt and shorts, white socks, and dark shoes against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 090
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair red shirt white socks
  • red shorts gray background pixel art
  • neutral expression dark shoes
  • light pink waistband figure

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

  • figure

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red shirt
  • red shorts
  • white socks
  • dark shoes
  • light pink waistband
  • neutral expression
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • arms extended
  • light skin tone
  • dark rectangular chest detail

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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
icons/a2/a2d0c11d03c88a58d9438c20fcb69a9f725103e6886968cd5e33ddb388bf9569.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
a2d0c11d03c88a58
SHA-256
a2d0c11d03c88a58d9438c20fcb69a9f725103e6886968cd5e33ddb388bf9569
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081446

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated figure with brown hair wearing red shirt and shorts, white socks, and dark shoes against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,214 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 670

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • white
  • gray
  • light pink
  • dark

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with brown hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression. Wearing red short-sleeve shirt with dark rectangular detail on chest, red shorts with light pink waistband, white socks, and dark shoes with light stripes. Arms are slightly extended from sides. Background is solid light gray. Rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated figure with brown hair wearing red shirt and shorts, white socks, and dark shoes against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 090
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair red shirt white socks
  • red shorts gray background pixel art
  • neutral expression dark shoes
  • light pink waistband figure

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

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • red shirt
  • red shorts
  • white socks
  • dark shoes
  • light pink waistband
  • neutral expression
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • arms extended
  • light skin tone
  • dark rectangular chest detail
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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
090
Archive entry
Favorites/090.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%2F090.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F090.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons