Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.

Other stored copies (1)

These non-canonical files are grouped with this icon. Similarity is measured against the canonical copy.

Stored files
2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

Permanent icon record

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head turned left
  • upper body
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment. The character has a wide smile showing pink and white teeth. The background is solid gray. The character's head is turned slightly left. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The character's eyes are black with white highlights. The hair is brown with darker brown highlights. The garment is blue with a light blue trim. The character's mouth is open in a smile. The image is cropped to show the upper body. The character's expression is cheerful. The image has a retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 211
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair yellow skin blue garment
  • pixelated cartoon character smiling
  • cheerful expression gray background
  • blue garment pink teeth

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow skin
  • blue garment
  • pink teeth
  • gray background
  • cheerful expression
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • smiling
  • head turned left

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/dd08fcd64943135971c6f1a66cac9ab85e22c5f0d7b610ec6cef4bb2f6f52d5a.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
dd08fcd649431359
SHA-256
dd08fcd64943135971c6f1a66cac9ab85e22c5f0d7b610ec6cef4bb2f6f52d5a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080510

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919490onnx/unsafe0.080510onnx/nsfw0.049962onnx/nsfl0.030548
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,560 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 718

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue garment (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • head turned left
  • upper body
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment. The character has a wide smile showing pink and white teeth. The background is solid gray. The character's head is turned slightly left. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The character's eyes are black with white highlights. The hair is brown with darker brown highlights. The garment is blue with a light blue trim. The character's mouth is open in a smile. The image is cropped to show the upper body. The character's expression is cheerful. The image has a retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • 211
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair yellow skin blue garment
  • pixelated cartoon character smiling
  • cheerful expression gray background
  • blue garment pink teeth

Objects

  • blue garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • yellow skin
  • blue garment
  • pink teeth
  • gray background
  • cheerful expression
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • smiling
  • head turned left
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "dd08fcd64943135971c6f1a66cac9ab85e22c5f0d7b610ec6cef4bb2f6f52d5a",
  "description": "Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.",
  "denseCaption": "Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment. The character has a wide smile showing pink and white teeth. The background is solid gray. The character\u0027s head is turned slightly left. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The character\u0027s eyes are black with white highlights. The hair is brown with darker brown highlights. The garment is blue with a light blue trim. The character\u0027s mouth is open in a smile. The image is cropped to show the upper body. The character\u0027s expression is cheerful. The image has a retro digital art style.",
  "wordwall": [
    "brown hair",
    "yellow skin",
    "blue garment",
    "pink teeth",
    "gray background",
    "cheerful expression",
    "pixelated",
    "retro digital art",
    "smiling",
    "head turned left"
  ],
  "visibleText": [],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "cartoon character"
  ],
  "actions": [
    "smiling"
  ],
  "objects": [
    "blue garment"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "brown",
    "yellow",
    "blue",
    "gray",
    "pink",
    "white"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "retro digital art"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "head turned left",
    "upper body",
    "solid background"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "cheerful"
  ],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "image appears upscaled"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [
    "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons"
  ],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "provenance collection-attribute: 2004",
    "provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics",
    "provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons",
    "provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility",
    "provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "my-buddy-icons",
    "tucows",
    "Favorites",
    "211",
    "mybuddy3"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "brown hair yellow skin blue garment",
    "pixelated cartoon character smiling",
    "cheerful expression gray background",
    "blue garment pink teeth"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "cartoon character",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cartoon character"
    },
    {
      "tag": "smiling",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: smiling"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue garment",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue garment"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "retro digital art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: retro digital art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "cheerful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cheerful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "brown",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: brown"
    },
    {
      "tag": "yellow",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: yellow"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gray"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pink",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pink"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "dd08fcd64943135971c6f1a66cac9ab85e22c5f0d7b610ec6cef4bb2f6f52d5a",
        "description": "Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment, smiling with visible teeth against a gray background.",
        "denseCaption": "Pixelated cartoon character with brown hair, yellow skin, and a blue garment. The character has a wide smile showing pink and white teeth. The background is solid gray. The character\u0027s head is turned slightly left. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation. The character\u0027s eyes are black with white highlights. The hair is brown with darker brown highlights. The garment is blue with a light blue trim. The character\u0027s mouth is open in a smile. The image is cropped to show the upper body. The character\u0027s expression is cheerful. The image has a retro digital art style.",
        "wordwall": [
          "brown hair",
          "yellow skin",
          "blue garment",
          "pink teeth",
          "gray background",
          "cheerful expression",
          "pixelated",
          "retro digital art",
          "smiling",
          "head turned left"
        ],
        "visibleText": [],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "cartoon character"
        ],
        "actions": [
          "smiling"
        ],
        "objects": [
          "blue garment"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "brown",
          "yellow",
          "blue",
          "gray",
          "pink",
          "white"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "retro digital art"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "head turned left",
          "upper body",
          "solid background"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "cheerful"
        ],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [
          "image appears upscaled"
        ],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [
          "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons"
        ],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "provenance collection-attribute: 2004",
          "provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics",
          "provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons",
          "provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility",
          "provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "my-buddy-icons",
          "tucows",
          "Favorites",
          "211",
          "mybuddy3"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "brown hair yellow skin blue garment",
          "pixelated cartoon character smiling",
          "cheerful expression gray background",
          "blue garment pink teeth"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:25 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)
TagConf.Evidencefavorites0.80internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · gallery · observation-categorymybuddy30.65internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlmybuddy30.65internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
211
Archive entry
Favorites/211.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%2F211.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F211.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons