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Pixelated character with spiky black hair, orange skin, white eyes, and a blue shirt against a gray background.

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Perceptual
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Pixelated character with spiky black hair, orange skin, white eyes, and a blue shirt against a gray background.

Pixelated character with spiky black hair, orange skin, white eyes, and a blue shirt against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with spiky black hair extending left and right, orange skin tone, white eyes with small black pupils, light brown eyebrows, blue V-neck shirt, gray background, static image, no visible text, no props or symbols, 8-bit style rendering, cropped to show head and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated character with spiky black hair, orange skin, white eyes, and a blue shirt against a 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): 255
  • observation file-name (gallery): 255

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiky black hair character
  • orange skin white eyes blue shirt
  • pixel art character gray background
  • 8-bit style head and shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • no text detected

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

Wordwall

  • spiky black hair
  • orange skin
  • white eyes
  • blue shirt
  • gray background
  • static image
  • 8-bit style
  • head and shoulders
  • no text
  • no props

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e744b65f7757fb511e263c541e9aa79f4adfa918236ddbb7a7887f3199412603.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
e744b65f7757fb51
SHA-256
e744b65f7757fb511e263c541e9aa79f4adfa918236ddbb7a7887f3199412603
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091500

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.908500onnx/unsafe0.091500onnx/nsfw0.061937onnx/nsfl0.029564
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with spiky black hair, orange skin, white eyes, and a blue shirt against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,290 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 663

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • orange
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with spiky black hair extending left and right, orange skin tone, white eyes with small black pupils, light brown eyebrows, blue V-neck shirt, gray background, static image, no visible text, no props or symbols, 8-bit style rendering, cropped to show head and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated character with spiky black hair, orange skin, white eyes, and a blue shirt against a 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): 255
  • observation file-name (gallery): 255

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiky black hair character
  • orange skin white eyes blue shirt
  • pixel art character gray background
  • 8-bit style head and shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • no text detected

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

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • spiky black hair
  • orange skin
  • white eyes
  • blue shirt
  • gray background
  • static image
  • 8-bit style
  • head and shoulders
  • no text
  • no props
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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
255
Archive entry
Favorites/255.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%2F255.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F255.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons