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Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye, and yellow lower body standing against gray background.

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Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye, and yellow lower body standing against gray background.

Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye, and yellow lower body standing against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / T…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • gray background
  • single figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye with white and gray gradient and black pupil, yellow lower body, brown feet, gray background. The character stands in a slightly angled pose with arms at sides. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The character's head is disproportionately large compared to its body. The green hair has a light green outline. The eye is positioned on the left side of the face. The yellow body has a brown stripe running vertically down the center. The feet are brown with darker brown accents. The overall style is retro digital art with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye, and yellow lower body 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): 052
  • observation file-name (gallery): 052
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • 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

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiky hair character
  • single eye pixel art
  • yellow body brown face
  • retro digital art character
  • gray background pixel character
  • disproportionate head pixel art
  • brown stripe yellow body
  • pixelated character standing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from smaller original

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

  • green spiky hair
  • single large eye
  • brown face
  • yellow body
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • blocky pixels
  • disproportionate head
  • light green outline
  • brown stripe
  • brown feet
  • gray gradient eye
  • slightly angled pose
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 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
bee21a6c3fe6372a
SHA-256
bee21a6c3fe6372add2a65b973068bbcd0218cf0916ddfda42f441c4bc91f8f9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085101

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye, and yellow lower body standing against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,560 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,024, response 827

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • brown
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • gray background
  • single figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye with white and gray gradient and black pupil, yellow lower body, brown feet, gray background. The character stands in a slightly angled pose with arms at sides. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The character's head is disproportionately large compared to its body. The green hair has a light green outline. The eye is positioned on the left side of the face. The yellow body has a brown stripe running vertically down the center. The feet are brown with darker brown accents. The overall style is retro digital art with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated character with green spiky hair, brown face, single large eye, and yellow lower body 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): 052
  • observation file-name (gallery): 052
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • 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

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • single eye pixel art
  • yellow body brown face
  • retro digital art character
  • gray background pixel character
  • disproportionate head pixel art
  • brown stripe yellow body
  • pixelated character standing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

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  • single large eye
  • brown face
  • yellow body
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • blocky pixels
  • disproportionate head
  • light green outline
  • brown stripe
  • brown feet
  • gray gradient eye
  • slightly angled pose
  • limited color palette
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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)
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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
052
Archive entry
Favorites/052.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%2F052.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F052.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons