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Pixelated character with red cap, white eyes, blue lower body, and white curved line on left side against gray background.

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Pixelated character with red cap, white eyes, blue lower body, and white curved line on left side against gray background.

Pixelated character with red cap, white eyes, blue lower body, and white curved line on left side against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a character with a red cap, light brown skin tone, white eyes with black pupils, blue lower body with white circular patterns, and a white curved line on the left side. The character has a neutral expression, closed eyes, and a blue appendage extending from the right side. The background is solid gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, white eyes, blue lower body, and white curved line on left side against 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): 024
  • observation file-name (gallery): 024

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap white eyes blue body
  • pixelated character gray background
  • white curved line blue appendage
  • closed eyes neutral expression

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

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • white eyes
  • blue lower body
  • white curved line
  • closed eyes
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • blue appendage
  • white circular patterns

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e7725e30418524673ab5e872a6c8ef8a65e0d7eb02d42a311eb91584266d9c66.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
e7725e3041852467
SHA-256
e7725e30418524673ab5e872a6c8ef8a65e0d7eb02d42a311eb91584266d9c66
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
0.075022

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924978onnx/unsafe0.075022onnx/nsfw0.047168onnx/nsfl0.027854
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with red cap, white eyes, blue lower body, and white curved line on left side against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,771 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,032, response 660

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • gray
  • light brown

Composition

  • character centered
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a character with a red cap, light brown skin tone, white eyes with black pupils, blue lower body with white circular patterns, and a white curved line on the left side. The character has a neutral expression, closed eyes, and a blue appendage extending from the right side. The background is solid gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red cap, white eyes, blue lower body, and white curved line on left side against 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): 024
  • observation file-name (gallery): 024

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap white eyes blue body
  • pixelated character gray background
  • white curved line blue appendage
  • closed eyes neutral expression

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • abstract

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • white eyes
  • blue lower body
  • white curved line
  • closed eyes
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • blue appendage
  • white circular patterns
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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
024
Archive entry
Favorites/024.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%2F024.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F024.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons