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Pixelated cartoon character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair in a side ponytail, and a red-brown hat, wearing an orange top against gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair in a side ponytail, and a red-brown hat, wearing an orange top against gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair in a side ponytail, and a red-brown hat, wearing an orange top against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a cartoon-style figure. The figure has orange-yellow skin tones, dark brown hair styled in a side ponytail extending down the right shoulder, and a large reddish-brown hat with a curved brim. Facial features include two black rectangular eyes with white highlights, a small black nose, and a thin black mouth forming a slight smile. The character wears an orange garment that covers the torso and shoulders. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges around all elements.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair in a side ponytail, and a red-brown hat, wearing an orange top against gray background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character orange-yellow skin
  • brown ponytail hat smile
  • pixelated cartoon gray background
  • orange garment black eyes white highlights

Preprocessing Notes

  • cropped to show upper body and head only

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • orange-yellow skin
  • brown side ponytail hair
  • red-brown hat
  • black rectangular eyes
  • white eye highlights
  • small black nose
  • thin black mouth smile
  • orange garment
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 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 22:05 UTC
Archive ID
e2a149d6ed8b1ce2
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Pixelated cartoon character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair in a side ponytail, and a red-brown hat, wearing an orange top against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,989 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,057, response 689

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
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  • red brown (color, 0.80)
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  • orange-yellow
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  • red-brown
  • black
  • white
  • gray

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  • close-up portrait
  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

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Description

Pixelated cartoon character with orange-yellow skin, brown hair in a side ponytail, and a red-brown hat, wearing an orange top against gray background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • brown ponytail hat smile
  • pixelated cartoon gray background
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Objects

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  • hair
  • garment

Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites

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Wordwall

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  • brown side ponytail hair
  • red-brown hat
  • black rectangular eyes
  • white eye highlights
  • small black nose
  • thin black mouth smile
  • orange garment
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
212
Archive entry
212.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

Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#212.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#212.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons