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Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star against gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
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Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star against gray background.

Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • star held close to face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star against gray background. The figure's face is partially visible with light skin tone. The yellow star is held close to the face. The shirt has a dark blue body with a red collar. The background is solid gray. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star 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): 204
  • observation file-name (gallery): 204

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair black headband dark blue shirt red collar yellow star gray background
  • pixelated figure holding yellow star
  • low-resolution figure with red collar
  • gray background figure with yellow star

Objects

  • yellow star

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but pixels are authoritative

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

  • figure

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black headband
  • dark blue shirt
  • red collar
  • yellow star
  • gray background
  • light skin tone
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e948a787c431c8ff94ce833764b088d341e4acc45a88564d0f2e242720bd8ee0.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
e948a787c431c8ff
SHA-256
e948a787c431c8ff94ce833764b088d341e4acc45a88564d0f2e242720bd8ee0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080160

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,268 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 697

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow star (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • black
  • dark blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • figure centered
  • star held close to face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star against gray background. The figure's face is partially visible with light skin tone. The yellow star is held close to the face. The shirt has a dark blue body with a red collar. The background is solid gray. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated figure with brown hair and black headband, wearing dark blue shirt with red collar, holding yellow star 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): 204
  • observation file-name (gallery): 204

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair black headband dark blue shirt red collar yellow star gray background
  • pixelated figure holding yellow star
  • low-resolution figure with red collar
  • gray background figure with yellow star

Objects

  • yellow star

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but pixels are authoritative

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • black headband
  • dark blue shirt
  • red collar
  • yellow star
  • gray background
  • light skin tone
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
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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
204
Archive entry
Favorites/204.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%2F204.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F204.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons