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Pixelated character with red cap, white mask, blue sleeve, and white wings against gray background.

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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
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Pixelated character with red cap, white mask, blue sleeve, and white wings against gray background.

Pixelated character with red cap, white mask, blue sleeve, and white wings against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, Early-2…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a character with light brown skin, red cap, white mask covering eyes and nose, blue sleeve on left arm, white wings on back, and a blue pixelated trail extending from left arm. The character is in profile view facing left. Background is solid light gray. Rendering uses 8-bit color palette with visible dithering. No text or additional symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, white mask, blue sleeve, and white wings against 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): 023
  • observation file-name (gallery): 023

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap white mask blue sleeve
  • pixelated character profile view
  • white wings blue trail gray background
  • 8-bit color pixel art

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

  • red cap
  • white mask
  • blue sleeve
  • white wings
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • light brown skin
  • blue trail
  • 8-bit color

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b0034041fb871778a11ef131833422c13a80600bd229dc02d9194b9c99c3c422.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
b0034041fb871778
SHA-256
b0034041fb871778a11ef131833422c13a80600bd229dc02d9194b9c99c3c422
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113839

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.886161onnx/unsafe0.113839onnx/nsfw0.079583onnx/nsfl0.034256
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with red cap, white mask, blue sleeve, and white wings against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,732 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 693

Review tags

  • trailing blue pixels (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue sleeve (object, 0.80)
  • blue trail (object, 0.80)
  • red cap (object, 0.80)
  • white mask (object, 0.80)
  • white wings (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • trailing blue pixels

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • light brown
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a character with light brown skin, red cap, white mask covering eyes and nose, blue sleeve on left arm, white wings on back, and a blue pixelated trail extending from left arm. The character is in profile view facing left. Background is solid light gray. Rendering uses 8-bit color palette with visible dithering. No text or additional symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, white mask, blue sleeve, and white wings against 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): 023
  • observation file-name (gallery): 023

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap white mask blue sleeve
  • pixelated character profile view
  • white wings blue trail gray background
  • 8-bit color pixel art

Objects

  • red cap
  • white mask
  • blue sleeve
  • white wings
  • blue trail

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
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • white mask
  • blue sleeve
  • white wings
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • light brown skin
  • blue trail
  • 8-bit color
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:24 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)
Raw JSON
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
023
Archive entry
Favorites/023.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%2F023.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F023.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons