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Pixelated yellow and black insect-like icon with two antennae, three black spots on its body, and a simple curved mouth.

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Pixelated yellow and black insect-like icon with two antennae, three black spots on its body, and a simple curved mouth.

Pixelated yellow and black insect-like icon with two antennae, three black spots on its body, and a simple curved mouth. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Ori…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular body
  • central vertical division
  • symmetrical arrangement of spots

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of an insect-shaped character. The head is rounded with two short antennae composed of alternating dark gray and white pixels. The main body is circular, colored in gradient yellow transitioning to orange at the top. Three distinct solid black oval spots are visible: one on the left side, one on the right side, and a smaller spot near the bottom-left. A thin vertical line divides the body into two symmetrical halves. The mouth is a simple curved black shape below the lower spot. Background is uniform light gray.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow and black insect-like icon with two antennae, three black spots on its body, and a simple curved mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • 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
  • 2000s
  • aim
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow insect icon with three spots
  • pixel art bug character
  • cartoon bug with antennae and spots
  • insect-shaped pixel art with curved mouth

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Visually Supported Entities

  • insect-like character

Wordwall

  • insect-shaped
  • yellow-orange gradient
  • three black spots
  • two antennae
  • curved mouth
  • pixelated art
  • symmetrical design
  • solid black shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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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 22:06 UTC
Archive ID
acccfd9be1c81f76
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
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076217

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow and black insect-like icon with two antennae, three black spots on its body, and a simple curved mouth.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:46 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,686 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,059, response 689

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • circular body
  • central vertical division
  • symmetrical arrangement of spots

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of an insect-shaped character. The head is rounded with two short antennae composed of alternating dark gray and white pixels. The main body is circular, colored in gradient yellow transitioning to orange at the top. Three distinct solid black oval spots are visible: one on the left side, one on the right side, and a smaller spot near the bottom-left. A thin vertical line divides the body into two symmetrical halves. The mouth is a simple curved black shape below the lower spot. Background is uniform light gray.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow and black insect-like icon with two antennae, three black spots on its body, and a simple curved mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • 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
  • 2000s
  • aim
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow insect icon with three spots
  • pixel art bug character
  • cartoon bug with antennae and spots
  • insect-shaped pixel art with curved mouth

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • insect-like character

Visually Supported Entities

  • insect-like character

Wordwall

  • insect-shaped
  • yellow-orange gradient
  • three black spots
  • two antennae
  • curved mouth
  • pixelated art
  • symmetrical design
  • solid black shapes
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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
241
Archive entry
241.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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