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Pixelated icon of a stylized face with blonde hair, closed eyes, a red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a stylized face with blonde hair, closed eyes, a red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

Pixelated icon of a stylized face with blonde hair, closed eyes, a red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered
  • portrait

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image of a stylized human face. The face has light skin tone. The eyes are closed with thick black eyelashes and eyebrows. A small red bindi is centered on the forehead. The mouth is a simple black curved line. The hair is light brown or blonde, styled in long straight strands framing the face. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The composition is a close-up portrait centered on the face.

Description

Pixelated icon of a stylized face with blonde hair, closed eyes, a red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • closed eyes blonde hair red bindi
  • pixelated face gray background
  • stylized cartoon face bindi
  • blonde hair closed eyes neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • closed eyes
  • red bindi
  • blonde hair
  • light skin
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • stylized face
  • black mouth line
  • long hair

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.4 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 22:01 UTC
Archive ID
c9d98d2f17641ed2
SHA-256
c9d98d2f17641ed2c19ec6938d1d6473dd5c49443c90efc002e706c5fbcab9cc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.074202

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon of a stylized face with blonde hair, closed eyes, a red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,641 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,061, response 788

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • bindi (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • light brown
  • black
  • red
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered
  • portrait

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image of a stylized human face. The face has light skin tone. The eyes are closed with thick black eyelashes and eyebrows. A small red bindi is centered on the forehead. The mouth is a simple black curved line. The hair is light brown or blonde, styled in long straight strands framing the face. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The composition is a close-up portrait centered on the face.

Description

Pixelated icon of a stylized face with blonde hair, closed eyes, a red bindi on the forehead, and a neutral expression against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • closed eyes blonde hair red bindi
  • pixelated face gray background
  • stylized cartoon face bindi
  • blonde hair closed eyes neutral expression

Objects

  • bindi

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • pixel art
  • stylized
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • face
  • hair

Wordwall

  • closed eyes
  • red bindi
  • blonde hair
  • light skin
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • stylized face
  • black mouth line
  • long hair
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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
137
Archive entry
137.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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