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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background.

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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background.

Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Or…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • minimalist

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D image of a red, egg-shaped character with spiky yellow hair extending from the top of its head. The character has squinted eyes with black pupils and white highlights, a thin black mouth line, and a white cigarette held horizontally in its mouth with visible smoke trailing to the right. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. The character's expression appears smug or nonchalant.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a 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 collection-attribute: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red egg character smoking cigarette
  • spiky yellow hair pixel art
  • smug cartoon cigarette smoke
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • cartoon
  • 2D

Wordwall

  • red oval head
  • spiky yellow hair
  • squinted eyes
  • cigarette in mouth
  • smoke trail
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • smug expression
  • black mouth line
  • white highlights in eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 22:06 UTC
Archive ID
d32ed9eaa96b5777
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090716

OpenAI category scores

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Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:46 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,077 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,063, response 673

Review tags

  • smoking (action, 0.80)
  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nonchalant (mood, 0.80)
  • smug (mood, 0.80)
  • cigarette (object, 0.80)
  • smoke (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red egg shaped character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smoking
  • squinting

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • minimalist

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D image of a red, egg-shaped character with spiky yellow hair extending from the top of its head. The character has squinted eyes with black pupils and white highlights, a thin black mouth line, and a white cigarette held horizontally in its mouth with visible smoke trailing to the right. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art. The character's expression appears smug or nonchalant.

Description

  • Red oval-shaped character with spiky yellow hair, squinting eyes, and a cigarette in its mouth against a 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 collection-attribute: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture

Mood

  • smug
  • nonchalant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red egg character smoking cigarette
  • spiky yellow hair pixel art
  • smug cartoon cigarette smoke
  • gray background pixel art

Objects

  • cigarette
  • smoke

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon
  • 2D

Subjects

  • red egg-shaped character

Wordwall

  • red oval head
  • spiky yellow hair
  • squinted eyes
  • cigarette in mouth
  • smoke trail
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • smug expression
  • black mouth line
  • white highlights in eyes
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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
235
Archive entry
235.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

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