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Pixelated abstract shape with layered brown, gray, and white sections against a light gray background.

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Pixelated abstract shape with layered brown, gray, and white sections against a light gray background.

Pixelated abstract shape with layered brown, gray, and white sections against a light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, Earl…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • irregular organic form
  • layered sections
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated abstract form composed of layered sections. The top section is dark gray with brown accents. Below it, a larger section features a mix of brown and gray tones. The bottom section is predominantly white with gray and black details. The background is a solid light gray. The shape has an irregular, organic form with no discernible facial features or text. The pixelation is prominent, with visible blocky pixels throughout the image.

Description

  • Pixelated abstract shape with layered brown, gray, and white sections against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 176
  • observation file-name (gallery): 176
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated abstract shape
  • brown gray white layered
  • light gray background
  • blocky pixels
  • organic form
  • low-resolution abstract
  • layered sections
  • solid background

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • layered
  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • light gray background
  • organic shape
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d260579e1a2c23cd0e995d1540e6e49068c62ea99ec686cad1815c52852682af.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
d260579e1a2c23cd
SHA-256
d260579e1a2c23cd0e995d1540e6e49068c62ea99ec686cad1815c52852682af
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129610

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated abstract shape with layered brown, gray, and white sections against a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 646

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • irregular organic form
  • layered sections
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated abstract form composed of layered sections. The top section is dark gray with brown accents. Below it, a larger section features a mix of brown and gray tones. The bottom section is predominantly white with gray and black details. The background is a solid light gray. The shape has an irregular, organic form with no discernible facial features or text. The pixelation is prominent, with visible blocky pixels throughout the image.

Description

  • Pixelated abstract shape with layered brown, gray, and white sections against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 176
  • observation file-name (gallery): 176
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated abstract shape
  • brown gray white layered
  • light gray background
  • blocky pixels
  • organic form
  • low-resolution abstract
  • layered sections
  • solid background

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • low-resolution

Subjects

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Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • layered
  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • light gray background
  • organic shape
  • blocky pixels
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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)
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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
176
Archive entry
Favorites/176.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%2F176.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F176.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons