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Pixelated figure in red shirt with yellow emblem, dark hair, and purple pants against gray background.

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Pixelated figure in red shirt with yellow emblem, dark hair, and purple pants against gray background.

Pixelated figure in red shirt with yellow emblem, dark hair, and purple pants against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, Earl…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • full-body view

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a red short-sleeve shirt with a yellow emblem on the chest, a blue collar with green trim, and purple pants with green trim. The right arm is extended forward; the left arm is bent at the elbow. The background is solid gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in red shirt with yellow emblem, dark hair, and purple pants against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 259
  • mybuddy3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red shirt yellow emblem figure
  • pixelated figure gray background
  • blue collar green trim purple pants
  • extended right arm bent left arm

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • red shirt
  • yellow emblem
  • blue collar
  • green trim
  • purple pants
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • extended right arm
  • bent left arm

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cb/cba0fe7fdf5e43fe5f535e2df0bd4dfa7a366bde8a524eb43fa50a96d879a8d1.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
cba0fe7fdf5e43fe
SHA-256
cba0fe7fdf5e43fe5f535e2df0bd4dfa7a366bde8a524eb43fa50a96d879a8d1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098198

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated figure in red shirt with yellow emblem, dark hair, and purple pants against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,043 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,024, response 610

Review tags

  • left arm bent (action, 0.80)
  • right arm extended (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • right arm extended
  • left arm bent

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • gray
  • light skin
  • dark hair

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • full-body view

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a figure with short dark hair and light skin. The figure wears a red short-sleeve shirt with a yellow emblem on the chest, a blue collar with green trim, and purple pants with green trim. The right arm is extended forward; the left arm is bent at the elbow. The background is solid gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in red shirt with yellow emblem, dark hair, and purple pants against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 259
  • mybuddy3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red shirt yellow emblem figure
  • pixelated figure gray background
  • blue collar green trim purple pants
  • extended right arm bent left arm

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • red shirt
  • yellow emblem
  • blue collar
  • green trim
  • purple pants
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • extended right arm
  • bent left arm
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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)
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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
259
Archive entry
Favorites/259.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%2F259.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F259.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons