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Pixelated character with blue hair and red collar, smiling with closed eyes, wearing blue outfit with red accents, standing against gray background.

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Pixelated character with blue hair and red collar, smiling with closed eyes, wearing blue outfit with red accents, standing against gray background.

Pixelated character with blue hair and red collar, smiling with closed eyes, wearing blue outfit with red accents, standing against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • full-body
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with blue hair, white face, and closed eyes forming a smile. Character wears red collar, blue outfit with red accents on sleeves and lower body. Left arm is bent with hand visible, right arm is partially visible. Background is solid gray. Character has rounded shape with white outline. Pixelation is prominent, indicating low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixelated character with blue hair and red collar, smiling with closed eyes, wearing blue outfit with red accents, standing 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): 262
  • observation file-name (gallery): 262

Metadata Only Entities

  • Doraemon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red collar character
  • pixelated smiling character
  • blue outfit red accents gray background
  • bent arm standing character
  • closed eyes smile 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

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • red collar
  • closed eyes smile
  • blue outfit
  • red accents
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • rounded shape
  • white outline
  • bent left arm
  • partially visible right arm

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 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 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
b8a0d03fbc9696d2
SHA-256
b8a0d03fbc9696d2fdae0de6502aab66d517572c1a6afdf96c2e699e2d560a0e
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125710

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated character with blue hair and red collar, smiling with closed eyes, wearing blue outfit with red accents, standing against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,980 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 662

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • standing

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • gray
  • peach

Composition

  • centered
  • full-body
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with blue hair, white face, and closed eyes forming a smile. Character wears red collar, blue outfit with red accents on sleeves and lower body. Left arm is bent with hand visible, right arm is partially visible. Background is solid gray. Character has rounded shape with white outline. Pixelation is prominent, indicating low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixelated character with blue hair and red collar, smiling with closed eyes, wearing blue outfit with red accents, standing 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): 262
  • observation file-name (gallery): 262

Metadata Only Entities

  • Doraemon

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair red collar character
  • pixelated smiling character
  • blue outfit red accents gray background
  • bent arm standing character
  • closed eyes smile 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • red collar
  • closed eyes smile
  • blue outfit
  • red accents
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • rounded shape
  • white outline
  • bent left arm
  • partially visible right arm
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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)
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
262
Archive entry
Favorites/262.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%2F262.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F262.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons