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Pixelated icon of a stylized face wearing a two-toned cap with a red star emblem on top, set against a solid gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a stylized face wearing a two-toned cap with a red star emblem on top, set against a solid gray background.

Pixelated icon of a stylized face wearing a two-toned cap with a red star emblem on top, set against a solid gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tuco…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • rounded shape
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated digital image with a rounded, stylized face. The face has two large black circular eyes and a simple nose shape. The head wears a cap that is split into two colors: the upper section is light yellow, and the lower section is brown. A red five-pointed star is centered on the yellow part of the cap. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The face is slightly tilted, and the overall composition is centered with no additional props or text.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a stylized face wearing a two-toned cap with a red star emblem on top, set against a solid gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 097
  • observation file-name (gallery): 097

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red star cap face
  • pixelated face star
  • two-toned cap star
  • stylized face red star
  • gray background star cap
  • black eyes star cap
  • yellow brown cap star
  • star face pixel art

Subjects

  • face
  • star

Wordwall

  • two-toned cap
  • red five-pointed star
  • black circular eyes
  • light yellow cap section
  • brown cap section
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated digital image
  • stylized face
  • centered composition
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e18955e834076ef9fd9af75da1c2f154788cf7f416d9d7521b2cbbcc516ae994.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
e18955e834076ef9
SHA-256
e18955e834076ef9fd9af75da1c2f154788cf7f416d9d7521b2cbbcc516ae994
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075658

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated icon of a stylized face wearing a two-toned cap with a red star emblem on top, set against a solid gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,730 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 752

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light yellow (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • cap (subject, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light yellow
  • brown
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • rounded shape
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated digital image with a rounded, stylized face. The face has two large black circular eyes and a simple nose shape. The head wears a cap that is split into two colors: the upper section is light yellow, and the lower section is brown. A red five-pointed star is centered on the yellow part of the cap. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The face is slightly tilted, and the overall composition is centered with no additional props or text.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a stylized face wearing a two-toned cap with a red star emblem on top, set against a solid gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 097
  • observation file-name (gallery): 097

Metadata Only Entities

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

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  • red star cap face
  • pixelated face star
  • two-toned cap star
  • stylized face red star
  • gray background star cap
  • black eyes star cap
  • yellow brown cap star
  • star face pixel art

Style

  • pixelated
  • stylized
  • abstract

Subjects

  • face
  • cap
  • star

Wordwall

  • two-toned cap
  • red five-pointed star
  • black circular eyes
  • light yellow cap section
  • brown cap section
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated digital image
  • stylized face
  • centered composition
  • limited color palette
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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
097
Archive entry
Favorites/097.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%2F097.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F097.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons