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Pixelated orange character with large white eye, black pupil, and single visible eyelid, wearing orange shorts with red trim, standing on two thin legs against gray background.

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Pixelated orange character with large white eye, black pupil, and single visible eyelid, wearing orange shorts with red trim, standing on two thin legs against gray background.

Pixelated orange character with large white eye, black pupil, and single visible eyelid, wearing orange shorts with red trim, standing on two thin legs against gray background. 48…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated orange character with rounded body, large white eye featuring black pupil and gray eyelid, single visible eyelid above eye, orange shorts with red trim around waist and legs, two thin legs with brown feet, standing against solid gray background, no visible text or additional props, static image with no animation changes.

Description

Pixelated orange character with large white eye, black pupil, and single visible eyelid, wearing orange shorts with red trim, standing on two thin legs against 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): 037
  • observation file-name (gallery): 037

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange pixel character
  • large eye orange shorts
  • gray background pixel art
  • orange character white eye

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

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  • orange character
  • large white eye
  • black pupil
  • gray eyelid
  • orange shorts
  • red trim
  • thin legs
  • brown feet
  • gray background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2eadebd01ca421a3d4d9ac21fb623a40e795fa4c81f877b74f37f6940f1cae2.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
d2eadebd01ca421a
SHA-256
d2eadebd01ca421a3d4d9ac21fb623a40e795fa4c81f877b74f37f6940f1cae2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089589

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated orange character with large white eye, black pupil, and single visible eyelid, wearing orange shorts with red trim, standing on two thin legs against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,150 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 676

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • orange character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • red
  • brown

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated orange character with rounded body, large white eye featuring black pupil and gray eyelid, single visible eyelid above eye, orange shorts with red trim around waist and legs, two thin legs with brown feet, standing against solid gray background, no visible text or additional props, static image with no animation changes.

Description

Pixelated orange character with large white eye, black pupil, and single visible eyelid, wearing orange shorts with red trim, standing on two thin legs against 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): 037
  • observation file-name (gallery): 037

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons
  • cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange pixel character
  • large eye orange shorts
  • gray background pixel art
  • orange character white eye

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • orange character

Wordwall

  • orange character
  • large white eye
  • black pupil
  • gray eyelid
  • orange shorts
  • red trim
  • thin legs
  • brown feet
  • gray background
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:24 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
037
Archive entry
Favorites/037.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%2F037.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F037.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons