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Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object against a gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object against a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • solid gray background
  • bird centered
  • object held in right wing

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object against a gray background. The bird has small black eyes, a slightly open beak, and orange accents on its wings. The object held by the bird is long and thin with alternating black and white segments. The bird's feet are positioned as if standing on a surface, with one foot slightly raised. The image uses a limited color palette of gray, yellow, orange, black, and white. The bird's wings are partially visible with orange and black coloring. The background is a solid light gray with no additional elements.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object 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 collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • 171
  • 171.ico
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray bird yellow beak orange feet
  • bird holding striped object
  • pixelated cartoon bird
  • solid gray background bird

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • bird

Wordwall

  • gray bird
  • yellow beak
  • orange feet
  • black-and-white striped object
  • small black eyes
  • open beak
  • orange wing accents
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated cartoon
  • standing pose
  • one foot raised
  • limited color palette

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 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 22:02 UTC
Archive ID
d42ab3405385a628
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 02:18 UTC
Run
1293
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001261

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:44 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,169 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,062, response 793

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black and white striped object (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bird (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • standing

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • solid gray background
  • bird centered
  • object held in right wing

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object against a gray background. The bird has small black eyes, a slightly open beak, and orange accents on its wings. The object held by the bird is long and thin with alternating black and white segments. The bird's feet are positioned as if standing on a surface, with one foot slightly raised. The image uses a limited color palette of gray, yellow, orange, black, and white. The bird's wings are partially visible with orange and black coloring. The background is a solid light gray with no additional elements.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon bird with gray body, yellow beak, and orange feet holding a black-and-white striped object 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 collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • 171
  • 171.ico
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray bird yellow beak orange feet
  • bird holding striped object
  • pixelated cartoon bird
  • solid gray background bird

Objects

  • black-and-white striped object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • bird

Wordwall

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  • yellow beak
  • orange feet
  • black-and-white striped object
  • small black eyes
  • open beak
  • orange wing accents
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated cartoon
  • standing pose
  • one foot raised
  • limited color palette
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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
171
Archive entry
171.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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