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Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base, displaying two expressions: neutral face with heart-shaped eyes and smiling mouth, then heart-shaped eyes with blurred motion effect.

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Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base, displaying two expressions: neutral face with heart-shaped eyes and smiling mouth, then heart-shaped eyes with blurred motion effect.

Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base, displaying two expressions: neutral face with heart-shaped eyes and smiling mouth, then heart-shaped eyes with blurred mo…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart eyes transition from static to blurred motion

Animation Summary

  • Heart-shaped eyes transition from static to blurred motion while character maintains neutral expression.

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base. Left view: neutral face with black eyebrows, red heart-shaped eyes, and black curved mouth. Right view: same face with red heart-shaped eyes showing horizontal blur effect. Background is solid light gray. Pixel art style with limited color palette. Character has no clothing or props. Animation change: heart eyes transition from static to blurred motion.

Description

Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base, displaying two expressions: neutral face with heart-shaped eyes and smiling mouth, then heart-shaped eyes with blurred motion effect.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity

Metadata Only Entities

  • My-Buddy-Icons
  • mybuddy4
  • 095

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cylindrical character heart eyes blurred
  • heart eyes pixel art animation
  • blue character neutral expression
  • red heart eyes blurred motion
  • pixel art blue character
  • heart eyes animation
  • blue cylindrical character gray background
  • neutral expression heart eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 095
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Wordwall

  • blue cylindrical character
  • white top
  • black base
  • red heart eyes
  • black eyebrows
  • black curved mouth
  • light gray background
  • pixel art
  • heart eyes blurred
  • neutral expression

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af1983a79f662dd20c42f249c4d9192791bbfaac7e472bf991d7d17d6025c17b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Archive ID
af1983a79f662dd2
SHA-256
af1983a79f662dd20c42f249c4d9192791bbfaac7e472bf991d7d17d6025c17b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081942

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926574onnx/unsafe0.081942onnx/nsfw0.050582onnx/nsfl0.031360
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base, displaying two expressions: neutral face with heart-shaped eyes and smiling mouth, then heart-shaped eyes with blurred motion effect.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,808 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 888

Review tags

  • heart eyes blurred (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue cylindrical character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart eyes blurred

Animation

  • heart eyes transition from static to blurred motion

Animation Summary

  • Heart-shaped eyes transition from static to blurred motion while character maintains neutral expression.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base. Left view: neutral face with black eyebrows, red heart-shaped eyes, and black curved mouth. Right view: same face with red heart-shaped eyes showing horizontal blur effect. Background is solid light gray. Pixel art style with limited color palette. Character has no clothing or props. Animation change: heart eyes transition from static to blurred motion.

Description

Blue cylindrical character with white top and black base, displaying two expressions: neutral face with heart-shaped eyes and smiling mouth, then heart-shaped eyes with blurred motion effect.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity

Metadata Only Entities

  • My-Buddy-Icons
  • mybuddy4
  • 095

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Mood

  • neutral
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cylindrical character heart eyes blurred
  • heart eyes pixel art animation
  • blue character neutral expression
  • red heart eyes blurred motion
  • pixel art blue character
  • heart eyes animation
  • blue cylindrical character gray background
  • neutral expression heart eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 095
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • blue cylindrical character

Wordwall

  • blue cylindrical character
  • white top
  • black base
  • red heart eyes
  • black eyebrows
  • black curved mouth
  • light gray background
  • pixel art
  • heart eyes blurred
  • neutral expression
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:27 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)
My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites (wayback-my-buddy-icons-v4-2006-extracted-favorites)
Kind
local-directory
Era
2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
Type
safely extracted official animated Favorites library from an archived AIM utility
Title
095
Archive entry
095.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Rights
vendor-authored commercial utility assets; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#095.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#095.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060314182033/http://www.buddy-icons.com/download.htm