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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundl…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair styled with a side-swept fringe and a small curl on the left side, yellow skin tone, black eyebrows, black eyes with white highlights, a small mouth, and a purple-and-white collared shirt. The background is solid light gray. The icon is cropped to show the head and shoulders. The rendering uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. No text or symbols are present on the icon itself.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • observation file-name (gallery): 220.ico
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • observation title (gallery): 220
  • observation file-name (gallery): 220

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair yellow skin cartoon icon
  • pixelated person purple shirt gray background
  • cartoon style head shoulders solid background
  • yellow skin black eyebrows white highlights

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow skin
  • black eyebrows
  • black eyes
  • white highlights
  • small mouth
  • purple-and-white shirt
  • gray background
  • head and shoulders
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • side-swept fringe
  • small curl
  • collared shirt
  • solid background
  • limited color palette
  • visible pixelation
  • early 2000s digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cb/cbe3d1a462eae3ea7064385df1e523e9cbf902fdbcc81cf73f6d32be27f72a6c.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:05 UTC
Archive ID
cbe3d1a462eae3ea
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 10:31 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010120

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
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1140
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Preprocessing
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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:46 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,077 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,058, response 865

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • early 2000s digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair styled with a side-swept fringe and a small curl on the left side, yellow skin tone, black eyebrows, black eyes with white highlights, a small mouth, and a purple-and-white collared shirt. The background is solid light gray. The icon is cropped to show the head and shoulders. The rendering uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. No text or symbols are present on the icon itself.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a person with brown hair, yellow skin, and a purple-and-white shirt against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • observation file-name (gallery): 220.ico
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • observation title (gallery): 220
  • observation file-name (gallery): 220

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair yellow skin cartoon icon
  • pixelated person purple shirt gray background
  • cartoon style head shoulders solid background
  • yellow skin black eyebrows white highlights

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • 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

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixel art
  • early 2000s digital art

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow skin
  • black eyebrows
  • black eyes
  • white highlights
  • small mouth
  • purple-and-white shirt
  • gray background
  • head and shoulders
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • side-swept fringe
  • small curl
  • collared shirt
  • solid background
  • limited color palette
  • visible pixelation
  • early 2000s digital art
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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
220
Archive entry
220.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#220.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#220.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons