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Pixelated character with red cap, large white eyes, and green checkered object held in hand against gray background.

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Pixelated character with red cap, large white eyes, and green checkered object held in hand against gray background.

Pixelated character with red cap, large white eyes, and green checkered object held in hand against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Bud…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a character with light brown skin tone, wearing a red cap with darker red outline. Character has large white eyes with black pupils and gray halftone shading. One eye is larger than the other. Character holds a green checkered object with white rectangular section in right hand. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout. No text is present. The object held appears to be a small square with green and white pattern.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, large white eyes, and green checkered object held in hand 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): 022
  • observation file-name (gallery): 022

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap pixel art
  • green checkered object
  • large white eyes
  • gray background pixel art
  • pixelated character holding object
  • light brown skin pixel art
  • one eye larger
  • green and white pattern

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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  • red cap
  • large white eyes
  • green checkered object
  • light brown skin
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • one eye larger
  • white rectangular section
  • green and white pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d8aaa55d17824e584a72deec58fcbf7f0ec78412c5de664e79b8c927925e2c91.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
d8aaa55d17824e58
SHA-256
d8aaa55d17824e584a72deec58fcbf7f0ec78412c5de664e79b8c927925e2c91
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079884

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

Pixelated character with red cap, large white eyes, and green checkered object held in hand against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,834 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 717

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • green checkered object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • green
  • gray
  • light brown

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image of a character with light brown skin tone, wearing a red cap with darker red outline. Character has large white eyes with black pupils and gray halftone shading. One eye is larger than the other. Character holds a green checkered object with white rectangular section in right hand. Background is solid light gray. Pixelation is visible throughout. No text is present. The object held appears to be a small square with green and white pattern.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, large white eyes, and green checkered object held in hand 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): 022
  • observation file-name (gallery): 022

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

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  • green checkered object
  • large white eyes
  • gray background pixel art
  • pixelated character holding object
  • light brown skin pixel art
  • one eye larger
  • green and white pattern

Objects

  • green checkered object

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

  • character

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • large white eyes
  • green checkered object
  • light brown skin
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • one eye larger
  • white rectangular section
  • green and white pattern
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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
022
Archive entry
Favorites/022.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%2F022.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F022.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons