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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile.

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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and upper torso
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile. The background is solid light gray. The icon uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The man's eyes are squinted, and the mouth shows white teeth and a dark interior. The head is slightly tilted to the left. The icon is cropped to show the upper torso and head.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile.

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): 222
  • observation file-name (gallery): 222

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • man smiling pixelated icon
  • brown hair yellow skin red tie
  • suit jacket white shirt gray background
  • squinted eyes pixelated cartoon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected

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

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow skin
  • red tie
  • dark suit jacket
  • white shirt
  • wide smile
  • squinted eyes
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • upper torso
  • head tilted left

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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
icons/d4/d4f00afa6905b26cec7406a061aaa055cdf466d063bc879c0fcced8478a2644c.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
d4f00afa6905b26c
SHA-256
d4f00afa6905b26cec7406a061aaa055cdf466d063bc879c0fcced8478a2644c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089632

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,482 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,024, response 715

Review tags

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  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • squinting

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • red
  • dark gray
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • head and upper torso
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile. The background is solid light gray. The icon uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The man's eyes are squinted, and the mouth shows white teeth and a dark interior. The head is slightly tilted to the left. The icon is cropped to show the upper torso and head.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a man with brown hair, yellow skin, and a red tie, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, mouth open in a wide smile.

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): 222
  • observation file-name (gallery): 222

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • desktop utility
  • bundled icons

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • man smiling pixelated icon
  • brown hair yellow skin red tie
  • suit jacket white shirt gray background
  • squinted eyes pixelated cartoon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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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  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • man

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow skin
  • red tie
  • dark suit jacket
  • white shirt
  • wide smile
  • squinted eyes
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • upper torso
  • head tilted left
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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
222
Archive entry
Favorites/222.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%2F222.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F222.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons