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Pixelated profile of a person with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

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Pixelated profile of a person with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

Pixelated profile of a person with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a neutral expression against a 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

  • side profile
  • cropped to head
  • centered on face

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a side profile of a person with light brown hair styled in a short, rounded cut. The hair has darker brown highlights and appears voluminous. The person has blue eyes with visible eyelashes, a light skin tone, and a neutral expression. The background is solid gray. The image is cropped to show only the head and neck, with no visible clothing or accessories. The rendering uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated profile of a person with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a neutral expression 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): 252
  • observation file-name (gallery): 252

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair blue eyes gray background
  • pixelated side profile neutral expression
  • cropped head no clothing
  • limited color palette static pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative

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

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  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • neutral expression
  • gray background
  • side profile
  • pixelated
  • limited color palette
  • cropped head
  • no clothing
  • no accessories

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a4e9fca321841ebe3252aecd94b3bebfbc978062f461e29e39e8287f705d8a7b.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
a4e9fca321841ebe
SHA-256
a4e9fca321841ebe3252aecd94b3bebfbc978062f461e29e39e8287f705d8a7b
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 18:39 UTC
Run
1281
Input
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Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010287

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
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1135
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated profile of a person with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,277 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 697

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • blue
  • gray
  • beige

Composition

  • side profile
  • cropped to head
  • centered on face

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a side profile of a person with light brown hair styled in a short, rounded cut. The hair has darker brown highlights and appears voluminous. The person has blue eyes with visible eyelashes, a light skin tone, and a neutral expression. The background is solid gray. The image is cropped to show only the head and neck, with no visible clothing or accessories. The rendering uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated profile of a person with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a neutral expression 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): 252
  • observation file-name (gallery): 252

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair blue eyes gray background
  • pixelated side profile neutral expression
  • cropped head no clothing
  • limited color palette static pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative

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
  • static
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • neutral expression
  • gray background
  • side profile
  • pixelated
  • limited color palette
  • cropped head
  • no clothing
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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
252
Archive entry
Favorites/252.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%2F252.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F252.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons