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Pixelated circular icon shows a face with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a small mouth against gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

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Pixelated circular icon shows a face with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a small mouth against gray background.

Pixelated circular icon shows a face with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a small mouth against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original F…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • centered face
  • hair extends from top-left to bottom-right

Dense Caption

Circular pixelated image of a stylized human face. Light brown hair extends from top-left to bottom-right across the head. Two large blue eyes with white highlights occupy central upper portion; eyebrows are dark blue above each eye. Small circular blue mouth is centered below eyes on light beige skin tone. Background is solid gray. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon shows a face with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a small mouth against gray background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • 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

  • pixelated face blue eyes light brown hair gray background
  • low-resolution cartoon face beige skin dark blue eyebrows

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

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 spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • small blue mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated face
  • beige skin
  • dark blue eyebrows

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e4/e446f9ab5670186ed32027ffbd51c3bbd9ff3d78308a40d3369096de8e6729af.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:01 UTC
Archive ID
e446f9ab5670186e
SHA-256
e446f9ab5670186ed32027ffbd51c3bbd9ff3d78308a40d3369096de8e6729af
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067854

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932146onnx/unsafe0.067854onnx/nsfw0.036090onnx/nsfl0.031765
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated circular icon shows a face with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a small mouth against gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,717 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,060, response 607

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized human features (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • blue
  • gray
  • beige
  • dark blue

Composition

  • circular frame
  • centered face
  • hair extends from top-left to bottom-right

Dense Caption

Circular pixelated image of a stylized human face. Light brown hair extends from top-left to bottom-right across the head. Two large blue eyes with white highlights occupy central upper portion; eyebrows are dark blue above each eye. Small circular blue mouth is centered below eyes on light beige skin tone. Background is solid gray. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon shows a face with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a small mouth against gray background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face blue eyes light brown hair gray background
  • low-resolution cartoon face beige skin dark blue eyebrows

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

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 spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • stylized human features

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • small blue mouth
  • gray background
  • pixelated face
  • beige skin
  • dark blue eyebrows
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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
149
Archive entry
149.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#149.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#149.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons