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Pixelated icon of a yellow cylindrical figure with red top, gray face, and black eye, holding up one golden finger against light gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a yellow cylindrical figure with red top, gray face, and black eye, holding up one golden finger against light gray background.

Pixelated icon of a yellow cylindrical figure with red top, gray face, and black eye, holding up one golden finger against light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical orientation
  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a vertical yellow cylinder with rounded red top. A small gray face with white mouth area and single black circular eye appears on the upper red section. The figure extends its right arm forward; hand is bright yellow-gold with five distinct fingers, thumb raised upward. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation creates blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

Pixelated icon of a yellow cylindrical figure with red top, gray face, and black eye, holding up one golden finger against light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • animals
  • cartoons
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cylinder red top gray face
  • pixelated hand thumb up
  • black eye golden finger
  • solid light gray background pixel art

Subjects

  • face
  • hand

Visually Supported Entities

  • cylindrical figure
  • face
  • hand

Wordwall

  • yellow cylinder
  • red top
  • gray face
  • black eye
  • golden hand
  • five fingers
  • thumb up
  • light gray background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 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 21:56 UTC
Archive ID
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SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090780

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a yellow cylindrical figure with red top, gray face, and black eye, holding up one golden finger against light gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:40 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,060, response 621

Review tags

  • holding up (action, 0.80)
  • thumb raised (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • finger (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky rendering (style, 0.80)
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  • cylindrical figure (subject, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding up
  • thumb raised

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • gray
  • black
  • gold

Composition

  • vertical orientation
  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art shows a vertical yellow cylinder with rounded red top. A small gray face with white mouth area and single black circular eye appears on the upper red section. The figure extends its right arm forward; hand is bright yellow-gold with five distinct fingers, thumb raised upward. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation creates blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

Pixelated icon of a yellow cylindrical figure with red top, gray face, and black eye, holding up one golden finger against light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • animals
  • cartoons
  • commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cylinder red top gray face
  • pixelated hand thumb up
  • black eye golden finger
  • solid light gray background pixel art

Objects

  • finger

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky rendering
  • 2000s digital art

Subjects

  • cylindrical figure
  • face
  • hand

Visually Supported Entities

  • cylindrical figure
  • face
  • hand

Wordwall

  • yellow cylinder
  • red top
  • gray face
  • black eye
  • golden hand
  • five fingers
  • thumb up
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
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Full source records (1)

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
033
Archive entry
033.ico
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

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