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Pixelated purple egg-shaped figure with a white oval mouth, single visible eye, and yellow straw hat against gray background.

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Pixelated purple egg-shaped figure with a white oval mouth, single visible eye, and yellow straw hat against gray background.

Pixelated purple egg-shaped figure with a white oval mouth, single visible eye, and yellow straw hat against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tuco…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • asymmetric hat placement
  • single eye
  • oval mouth

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a rounded purple figure with a white oval mouth and one visible eye (black pupil, white highlight). The figure wears a yellow straw hat with a white outline. Background is solid gray. The image uses low-resolution pixelation with visible dithering and hard edges. The figure's shape is egg-like with a slightly flattened top. The hat sits slightly askew on the figure's head. The purple figure has a gradient from dark to light purple. The white mouth is centered below the eye. The eye is positioned on the upper left side of the figure's face. The hat's brim extends to the left. The figure's right side is slightly darker than the left. The image has a distinct retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated purple egg-shaped figure with a white oval mouth, single visible eye, and yellow straw hat against 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 244
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple egg figure straw hat
  • pixelated egg mouth eye
  • straw hat purple figure
  • gray background pixel art
  • retro digital egg
  • single eye purple hat
  • pixelated mouth eye
  • egg-shaped figure hat

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

  • purple egg shape
  • white oval mouth
  • single eye
  • yellow straw hat
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • retro digital art
  • asymmetric hat
  • gradient purple
  • white outline
  • hard edges
  • centered mouth
  • left eye
  • brim extends left
  • darker right side
  • lighter left side
  • black pupil
  • white highlight
  • straw hat texture
  • solid background
  • egg-like form
  • pixelated mouth
  • pixelated eye
  • pixelated hat
  • pixelated figure
  • white mouth outline
  • white eye outline
  • white hat outline
  • purple gradient
  • gray backdrop
  • retro aesthetic
  • digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 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
a5d787f328f02bac
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076504

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated purple egg-shaped figure with a white oval mouth, single visible eye, and yellow straw hat against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,735 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 952

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • straw hat (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • purple egg shaped figure (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow straw hat (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • asymmetric hat placement
  • single eye
  • oval mouth

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a rounded purple figure with a white oval mouth and one visible eye (black pupil, white highlight). The figure wears a yellow straw hat with a white outline. Background is solid gray. The image uses low-resolution pixelation with visible dithering and hard edges. The figure's shape is egg-like with a slightly flattened top. The hat sits slightly askew on the figure's head. The purple figure has a gradient from dark to light purple. The white mouth is centered below the eye. The eye is positioned on the upper left side of the figure's face. The hat's brim extends to the left. The figure's right side is slightly darker than the left. The image has a distinct retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated purple egg-shaped figure with a white oval mouth, single visible eye, and yellow straw hat against 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 244
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple egg figure straw hat
  • pixelated egg mouth eye
  • straw hat purple figure
  • gray background pixel art
  • retro digital egg
  • single eye purple hat
  • pixelated mouth eye
  • egg-shaped figure hat

Objects

  • straw hat

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
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • purple egg-shaped figure
  • yellow straw hat

Wordwall

  • purple egg shape
  • white oval mouth
  • single eye
  • yellow straw hat
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • retro digital art
  • asymmetric hat
  • gradient purple
  • white outline
  • hard edges
  • centered mouth
  • left eye
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  • darker right side
  • lighter left side
  • black pupil
  • white highlight
  • straw hat texture
  • solid background
  • egg-like form
  • pixelated mouth
  • pixelated eye
  • pixelated hat
  • pixelated figure
  • white mouth outline
  • white eye outline
  • white hat outline
  • purple gradient
  • gray backdrop
  • retro aesthetic
  • digital art
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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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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
244
Archive entry
Favorites/244.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%2F244.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F244.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons