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Red oval-shaped face with heart-shaped eyes and a small mouth, topped with spiky yellow hair against a gray background.

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Red oval-shaped face with heart-shaped eyes and a small mouth, topped with spiky yellow hair against a gray background.

Red oval-shaped face with heart-shaped eyes and a small mouth, topped with spiky yellow hair against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • hair above face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a red oval face with two heart-shaped eyes in red, a small horizontal mouth, and spiky yellow hair with white highlights. The background is solid gray. The image uses pixelated rendering with visible dithering on the red face and yellow hair. The face has a neutral expression with closed eyes. The hair extends outward in multiple directions, with the tallest spikes near the top center. The icon has a rounded white outline around the red face. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped face with heart-shaped eyes and a small mouth, topped with spiky yellow hair 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): 234
  • observation file-name (gallery): 234

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart eyes pixel art
  • yellow spiky hair gray background
  • pixelated face neutral expression
  • retro pixel art red face

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

  • face

Wordwall

  • red oval face
  • heart-shaped eyes
  • yellow spiky hair
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • neutral expression
  • white outline
  • dithering on red
  • yellow hair highlights
  • closed eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/acc108e7cb5856e1ca3ea29908c46e120000e1b9886c36ef0deacb33406f76d6.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
acc108e7cb5856e1
SHA-256
acc108e7cb5856e1ca3ea29908c46e120000e1b9886c36ef0deacb33406f76d6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087529

OpenAI category scores

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

Red oval-shaped face with heart-shaped eyes and a small mouth, topped with spiky yellow hair against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,120 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 709

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • limited palette (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • hair above face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a red oval face with two heart-shaped eyes in red, a small horizontal mouth, and spiky yellow hair with white highlights. The background is solid gray. The image uses pixelated rendering with visible dithering on the red face and yellow hair. The face has a neutral expression with closed eyes. The hair extends outward in multiple directions, with the tallest spikes near the top center. The icon has a rounded white outline around the red face. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped face with heart-shaped eyes and a small mouth, topped with spiky yellow hair 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): 234
  • observation file-name (gallery): 234

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart eyes pixel art
  • yellow spiky hair gray background
  • pixelated face neutral expression
  • retro pixel art red face

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
  • limited palette

Subjects

  • face
  • hair

Wordwall

  • red oval face
  • heart-shaped eyes
  • yellow spiky hair
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
  • neutral expression
  • white outline
  • dithering on red
  • yellow hair highlights
  • closed eyes
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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
234
Archive entry
Favorites/234.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%2F234.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F234.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons