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Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, E…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped head
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background. The hair has sharp, angular spikes with white highlights. The face is light-skinned with dark eyebrows, closed eyes, and a small mouth. The right ear is visible. The image is cropped to show only the head and upper hair. The background is solid light gray. The rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 251
  • observation file-name (gallery): 251

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiky black hair cartoon head
  • closed eyes pixel art
  • gray background cartoon head
  • light skin tone pixel art

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • spiky black hair
  • closed eyes
  • light-skinned face
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • right ear visible
  • small mouth
  • white highlights on hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 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 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
a32d1eb453cd4db2
SHA-256
a32d1eb453cd4db2c1df6e714d2f113b107959d81fe961ae1d2ea21ff9e1a04d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010299

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
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1135
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,624 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 683

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light gray
  • light skin tone
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped head
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background. The hair has sharp, angular spikes with white highlights. The face is light-skinned with dark eyebrows, closed eyes, and a small mouth. The right ear is visible. The image is cropped to show only the head and upper hair. The background is solid light gray. The rendering style is low-resolution pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon head with spiky black hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 251
  • observation file-name (gallery): 251

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiky black hair cartoon head
  • closed eyes pixel art
  • gray background cartoon head
  • light skin tone pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon head

Wordwall

  • spiky black hair
  • closed eyes
  • light-skinned face
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • right ear visible
  • small mouth
  • white highlights on hair
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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)
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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
251
Archive entry
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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%2F251.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F251.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons