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Blue spherical face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a black smile wears a dark gray top hat against a light 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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Blue spherical face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a black smile wears a dark gray top hat against a light gray background.

Blue spherical face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a black smile wears a dark gray top hat against a light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / T…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • square crop
  • face fills most of frame

Dense Caption

The icon features a blue spherical face with a smooth gradient from light blue at the center to darker blue at the edges. It has two black circular eyes with gray eyelids and eyebrows above them. A black curved line forms a smiling mouth. The face wears a dark gray top hat with a flat brim. The background is a solid light gray. The image is pixelated with visible dithering and blocky rendering typical of low-resolution digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue spherical face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a black smile wears a dark gray top hat against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • mybuddy3
  • 152

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue face top hat
  • pixelated smiley hat
  • spherical face gray hat
  • blue emoji top hat

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

  • blue face
  • black eyes
  • gray eyebrows
  • black smile
  • dark gray top hat
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • spherical shape
  • smooth gradient

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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/c8/c8045b9b385b294043eb40268e52fcb825ffc2424834fec3fc8eb8a993d5723a.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
c8045b9b385b2940
SHA-256
c8045b9b385b294043eb40268e52fcb825ffc2424834fec3fc8eb8a993d5723a
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083337

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue spherical face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a black smile wears a dark gray top hat against a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,043 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 663

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • spherical face (subject, 0.80)
  • top hat (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered
  • square crop
  • face fills most of frame

Dense Caption

The icon features a blue spherical face with a smooth gradient from light blue at the center to darker blue at the edges. It has two black circular eyes with gray eyelids and eyebrows above them. A black curved line forms a smiling mouth. The face wears a dark gray top hat with a flat brim. The background is a solid light gray. The image is pixelated with visible dithering and blocky rendering typical of low-resolution digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue spherical face with black eyes, gray eyebrows, and a black smile wears a dark gray top hat against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • mybuddy3
  • 152

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue face top hat
  • pixelated smiley hat
  • spherical face gray hat
  • blue emoji top hat

Objects

  • top hat

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
  • abstract

Subjects

  • spherical face
  • top hat

Wordwall

  • blue face
  • black eyes
  • gray eyebrows
  • black smile
  • dark gray top hat
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • spherical shape
  • smooth gradient
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:25 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
152
Archive entry
Favorites/152.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%2F152.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F152.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons