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Pixelated blue creature with green oval eyes and black pupils, white curved mouth, and two pointed ears on a gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
0

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Pixelated blue creature with green oval eyes and black pupils, white curved mouth, and two pointed ears on a gray background.

Pixelated blue creature with green oval eyes and black pupils, white curved mouth, and two pointed ears on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tuco…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • symmetrical
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a blue, rounded, teardrop-shaped figure with two pointed ears at the top. It has two large green oval eyes with black pupils and a white curved mouth. The figure's body is a gradient of light to dark blue. The background is solid gray. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue creature with green oval eyes and black pupils, white curved mouth, and two pointed ears on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 096
  • mybuddy3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue creature green eyes
  • pixelated blue teardrop
  • green oval eyes black pupils
  • blue creature white mouth
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims but no pixel evidence supports them

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • blue creature
  • green oval eyes
  • black pupils
  • white curved mouth
  • pointed ears
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • teardrop shape
  • low-resolution
  • gradient blue body

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be675868530be1a4b7a560c09a5294a0be23f727ea2758fd4aebdba83680e54d.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
be675868530be1a4
SHA-256
be675868530be1a4b7a560c09a5294a0be23f727ea2758fd4aebdba83680e54d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.052860

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.947140onnx/unsafe0.052860onnx/nsfl0.026957onnx/nsfw0.025902
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue creature with green oval eyes and black pupils, white curved mouth, and two pointed ears on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,505 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 628

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale background (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue creature (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • symmetrical
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a blue, rounded, teardrop-shaped figure with two pointed ears at the top. It has two large green oval eyes with black pupils and a white curved mouth. The figure's body is a gradient of light to dark blue. The background is solid gray. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue creature with green oval eyes and black pupils, white curved mouth, and two pointed ears on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 096
  • mybuddy3

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue creature green eyes
  • pixelated blue teardrop
  • green oval eyes black pupils
  • blue creature white mouth
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims but no pixel evidence supports them

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale background

Subjects

  • blue creature

Wordwall

  • blue creature
  • green oval eyes
  • black pupils
  • white curved mouth
  • pointed ears
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • teardrop shape
  • low-resolution
  • gradient blue body
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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)
TagConf.Evidencefavorites0.80internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · gallery · observation-categorymybuddy30.65internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlmybuddy30.65internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
096
Archive entry
Favorites/096.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%2F096.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F096.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons