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Pixelated character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against gray background.

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2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
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Pixelated character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against gray background.

Pixelated character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a character with a red head, two gray eyes with black pupils and white highlights, and a yellow body. The character's right arm is raised in a thumbs-up gesture. The background is solid gray. The image uses blocky pixelation with visible dithering, typical of early 2000s digital graphics. No text or additional symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • 004

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red head gray eyes yellow body
  • thumbs-up pixel art
  • gray background pixel character
  • yellow body red head thumbs-up

Wordwall

  • red head
  • gray eyes
  • yellow body
  • thumbs-up gesture
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated art
  • blocky dithering
  • two eyes
  • black pupils
  • white highlights
  • raised arm
  • static image
  • no text
  • gray background
  • thumbs-up
  • pixel art
  • dithering

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ec0d3c0f0f7fece4f6060b5c4689b3a2d1d29aaf1e42beb7fb903d272dd57e28.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
ec0d3c0f0f7fece4
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 09:04 UTC
Run
1179
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.071117

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
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four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114962

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,157 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 637

Review tags

  • giving thumbs up (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • giving thumbs-up

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art depicts a character with a red head, two gray eyes with black pupils and white highlights, and a yellow body. The character's right arm is raised in a thumbs-up gesture. The background is solid gray. The image uses blocky pixelation with visible dithering, typical of early 2000s digital graphics. No text or additional symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red head, gray eyes, and yellow body giving a thumbs-up gesture against gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • 004

Mood

  • positive
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red head gray eyes yellow body
  • thumbs-up pixel art
  • gray background pixel character
  • yellow body red head thumbs-up

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • dithered

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • red head
  • gray eyes
  • yellow body
  • thumbs-up gesture
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated art
  • blocky dithering
  • two eyes
  • black pupils
  • white highlights
  • raised arm
  • static image
  • no text
  • gray background
  • thumbs-up
  • pixel art
  • dithering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:23 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)
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Full source records (2)
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
004
Archive entry
Favorites/004.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%2F004.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F004.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons 
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
004
Archive entry
Favorites/004.ico
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 12:46 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 Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons