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Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a blue cap with white text and a dark jacket over a white shirt against a gray background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a blue cap with white text and a dark jacket over a white shirt against a gray background.

Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a blue cap with white text and a dark jacket over a white shirt against a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive /…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered head
  • shoulders visible
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait of a person with light skin tone, brown hair, and closed eyes. The person wears a blue cap with white text that appears to read "FRE" or "FRE" in blocky letters. The cap has a dark blue brim. The person wears a dark jacket with visible collar and a white shirt underneath. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The head is centered in the frame with shoulders visible below the neck. The image shows no motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a blue cap with white text and a dark jacket over a white shirt against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • 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
  • 072
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cap white text person
  • pixelated portrait closed eyes
  • gray background dark jacket white shirt
  • blocky text fre person

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

Visible Text

  • FRE

Wordwall

  • blue cap
  • white text on cap
  • closed eyes
  • brown hair
  • dark jacket
  • white shirt
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • light skin tone
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/eda14c59cf587d7877d4d144e5843aef5f14ce6911ca9ae199fec1f38930862a.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
eda14c59cf587d78
SHA-256
eda14c59cf587d7877d4d144e5843aef5f14ce6911ca9ae199fec1f38930862a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 01:09 UTC
Run
1342
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001152

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a blue cap with white text and a dark jacket over a white shirt against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,193 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 699

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • brown
  • dark blue
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • centered head
  • shoulders visible
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated portrait of a person with light skin tone, brown hair, and closed eyes. The person wears a blue cap with white text that appears to read "FRE" or "FRE" in blocky letters. The cap has a dark blue brim. The person wears a dark jacket with visible collar and a white shirt underneath. The background is solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The head is centered in the frame with shoulders visible below the neck. The image shows no motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person wearing a blue cap with white text and a dark jacket over a white shirt against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • 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
  • 072
  • mybuddy3

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cap white text person
  • pixelated portrait closed eyes
  • gray background dark jacket white shirt
  • blocky text fre person

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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • FRE

Wordwall

  • blue cap
  • white text on cap
  • closed eyes
  • brown hair
  • dark jacket
  • white shirt
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • light skin tone
  • blocky text
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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)
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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
072
Archive entry
Favorites/072.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%2F072.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F072.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons