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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow body, purple hat, and large white eyes on gray background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow body, purple hat, and large white eyes on gray background.

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow body, purple hat, and large white eyes on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites, 2003-…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • single character
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a stylized anthropomorphic figure. The figure has an elongated yellow body with subtle gradient shading suggesting curvature. It wears a solid purple rounded cap covering the top portion of its head. Two disproportionately large circular eyes are positioned side-by-side; each eye consists of white outer regions, black pupils, and gray transition zones between them. A small light-colored highlight appears on the lower-left curve of the yellow body. The background is a uniform medium-gray color with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow body, purple hat, and large white eyes on gray background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon figure purple hat
  • pixel art character large eyes gray background
  • anthropomorphic yellow body purple cap
  • cartoon eye design white black pupils

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • yellow body
  • purple hat
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • gray background
  • pixelated art style
  • no visible mouth
  • side-by-side eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ec299a18dd5baed901a33945a18d1b706ce3613ffd4d14fdb097909368bd062c.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Archive ID
ec299a18dd5baed9
SHA-256
ec299a18dd5baed901a33945a18d1b706ce3613ffd4d14fdb097909368bd062c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.064368

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow body, purple hat, and large white eyes on gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:39 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,898 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,058, response 679

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • anthropomorphic figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • single character
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a stylized anthropomorphic figure. The figure has an elongated yellow body with subtle gradient shading suggesting curvature. It wears a solid purple rounded cap covering the top portion of its head. Two disproportionately large circular eyes are positioned side-by-side; each eye consists of white outer regions, black pupils, and gray transition zones between them. A small light-colored highlight appears on the lower-left curve of the yellow body. The background is a uniform medium-gray color with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow body, purple hat, and large white eyes on gray background.

Metadata Contradicted By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals

Metadata Only Entities

  • My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon figure purple hat
  • pixel art character large eyes gray background
  • anthropomorphic yellow body purple cap
  • cartoon eye design white black pupils

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: cartoons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon
  • stylized

Subjects

  • anthropomorphic figure

Wordwall

  • yellow body
  • purple hat
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • gray background
  • pixelated art style
  • no visible mouth
  • side-by-side eyes
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Full source records (2)

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
001
Archive entry
001.ico
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#001.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#001.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons

My Buddy Icons 3 Bundled Original Favorites (internet-archive-my-buddy-icons-3-bundled-favorites)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2003-2004 AIM Utility Culture
Type
finished 48x48 Favorites collection statically extracted from a preserved Wise installer and rendered losslessly from ICO to PNG
Title
001
Archive entry
001.ico
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Rights
mixed original utility artwork and recognizable character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization utility favorites spanning expressive faces, cartoons, people, sports, objects, flowers, fantasy, and early-web identity imagery

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