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Pixelated face with black beret, red circular emblem, blue nose, black eyes, and black mouth on light gray background.

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Pixelated face with black beret, red circular emblem, blue nose, black eyes, and black mouth on light gray background.

Pixelated face with black beret, red circular emblem, blue nose, black eyes, and black mouth on light gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My B…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical features
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated circular face with light beige skin tone. Black beret with rounded top covers the upper portion of the head. Centered on the beret is a solid red circular emblem. Two black rectangular eyes with white highlights are positioned horizontally. A vertical blue rectangular nose sits between the eyes. A black inverted V-shaped mouth is below the nose. The background is solid light gray. The image uses 8-bit pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black beret, red circular emblem, blue nose, black eyes, and black mouth on light 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): 119
  • observation file-name (gallery): 119

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beret emblem nose
  • pixel art face
  • red emblem blue nose
  • black eyes beige face

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

  • face

Wordwall

  • black beret
  • red circular emblem
  • blue nose
  • black eyes
  • black mouth
  • light gray background
  • pixelated face
  • beige skin tone
  • white eye highlights
  • inverted V mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e4/e47467c2a80fb0ba0566d56bff186144b17070f9e38f65126f2f3e16031cc6ab.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
e47467c2a80fb0ba
SHA-256
e47467c2a80fb0ba0566d56bff186144b17070f9e38f65126f2f3e16031cc6ab
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.058722

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated face with black beret, red circular emblem, blue nose, black eyes, and black mouth on light gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,217 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 711

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • beret (object, 0.80)
  • emblem (object, 0.80)
  • eyes (object, 0.80)
  • mouth (object, 0.80)
  • nose (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • blue
  • beige
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical features
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated circular face with light beige skin tone. Black beret with rounded top covers the upper portion of the head. Centered on the beret is a solid red circular emblem. Two black rectangular eyes with white highlights are positioned horizontally. A vertical blue rectangular nose sits between the eyes. A black inverted V-shaped mouth is below the nose. The background is solid light gray. The image uses 8-bit pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated face with black beret, red circular emblem, blue nose, black eyes, and black mouth on light 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): 119
  • observation file-name (gallery): 119

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beret emblem nose
  • pixel art face
  • red emblem blue nose
  • black eyes beige face

Objects

  • beret
  • emblem
  • nose
  • eyes
  • mouth

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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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  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • black beret
  • red circular emblem
  • blue nose
  • black eyes
  • black mouth
  • light gray background
  • pixelated face
  • beige skin tone
  • white eye highlights
  • inverted V mouth
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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)
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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
119
Archive entry
Favorites/119.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%2F119.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F119.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons