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Blue spherical character with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a brown cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

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Blue spherical character with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a brown cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

Blue spherical character with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a brown cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • circular
  • close-up

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue spherical character with two black circular eyes and a curved black mouth forming a smile. The character wears a brown cap with a white symbol resembling a stylized 'I' or a cross on top. Two silver, ear-like attachments extend from the sides of the cap. The background is solid light gray. The image is rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

  • Blue spherical character with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a brown cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • topic: animals
  • era: 2003
  • era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

  • topic: cartoons
  • collection attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue smiling character brown cap
  • spherical character silver ear attachments
  • pixelated cartoon character white symbol
  • blue cartoon character light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • file-name: 108.ico
  • file-name: mybuddy3
  • file-name: 108
  • title: 108
  • era: 2003-2004
  • collection: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • topic: cartoons
  • topic: animals
  • collection attribute: aim
  • collection attribute: buddy-icons
  • cultural slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites

Visible Text

  • I

Visually Supported Entities

  • spherical character

Wordwall

  • blue sphere
  • black eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • brown cap
  • white symbol
  • silver ear attachments
  • light gray background
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 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 21:59 UTC
Archive ID
bf7a7a80394e0323
SHA-256
bf7a7a80394e03233de806d74e824f3788ccd29359b3c824c8dc2b9e9eadc5a0
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
0.080727

OpenAI category scores

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Blue spherical character with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a brown cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:42 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,741 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,061, response 712

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • brown cap (object, 0.80)
  • silver ear attachments (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • spherical character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • silver
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered
  • circular
  • close-up

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue spherical character with two black circular eyes and a curved black mouth forming a smile. The character wears a brown cap with a white symbol resembling a stylized 'I' or a cross on top. Two silver, ear-like attachments extend from the sides of the cap. The background is solid light gray. The image is rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

  • Blue spherical character with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a brown cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • topic: animals
  • era: 2003
  • era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

  • topic: cartoons
  • collection attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue smiling character brown cap
  • spherical character silver ear attachments
  • pixelated cartoon character white symbol
  • blue cartoon character light gray background

Objects

  • brown cap
  • silver ear attachments

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • file-name: mybuddy3
  • file-name: 108
  • title: 108
  • era: 2003-2004
  • collection: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • topic: cartoons
  • topic: animals
  • collection attribute: aim
  • collection attribute: buddy-icons
  • cultural slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • dithered

Subjects

  • spherical character

Visible Text

  • I

Visually Supported Entities

  • spherical character

Wordwall

  • blue sphere
  • black eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • brown cap
  • white symbol
  • silver ear attachments
  • light gray background
  • pixelated style
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Full source records (1)

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
108
Archive entry
108.ico
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

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