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Pixelated cartoon face with yellow hair, black eyebrows, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth against gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon face with yellow hair, black eyebrows, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth against gray background.

Pixelated cartoon face with yellow hair, black eyebrows, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Fa…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular head
  • centered on gray background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a circular head with short bright yellow hair. The face has light brown skin tone, thick black eyebrows, large white eyes with black pupils, and an open-mouthed smile showing two upper teeth. Hair is styled in straight bangs across the forehead. Background is solid medium gray. Art style uses blocky pixels typical of early 2000s digital graphics. No visible clothing or accessories beyond hair.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with yellow hair, black eyebrows, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow hair cartoon face
  • pixel art smiling face
  • gray background cartoon icon
  • 2000s digital graphics smile

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon face

Wordwall

  • yellow hair
  • black eyebrows
  • white eyes with black pupils
  • open mouth smile
  • light brown skin
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • straight bangs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 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 22:00 UTC
Archive ID
cb8b7dca62b2dd54
SHA-256
cb8b7dca62b2dd54cb1064d61dd6acbc633c7349fb86f52e7615b1f74039dc1d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 04:46 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083887

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon face with yellow hair, black eyebrows, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,059, response 669

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • circular head
  • centered on gray background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a circular head with short bright yellow hair. The face has light brown skin tone, thick black eyebrows, large white eyes with black pupils, and an open-mouthed smile showing two upper teeth. Hair is styled in straight bangs across the forehead. Background is solid medium gray. Art style uses blocky pixels typical of early 2000s digital graphics. No visible clothing or accessories beyond hair.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with yellow hair, black eyebrows, wide eyes, and a smiling mouth against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow hair cartoon face
  • pixel art smiling face
  • gray background cartoon icon
  • 2000s digital graphics smile

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • pixel art
  • 2000s digital graphics

Subjects

  • cartoon face

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon face

Wordwall

  • yellow hair
  • black eyebrows
  • white eyes with black pupils
  • open mouth smile
  • light brown skin
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • straight bangs
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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
126
Archive entry
126.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

Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#126.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#126.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons