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Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a dark gray cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

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Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
0

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Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a dark gray cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a dark gray cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated icon featuring a blue circular face with two black square eyes and a black curved mouth forming a smile. The face has a smooth gradient from light blue to darker blue. It wears a dark gray cap with a white symbol resembling a stylized 'T' or 'I' on the front. Two silver ear-like attachments extend from the sides of the cap, each with a light blue vertical element. The background is solid light gray. The icon uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a dark gray cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

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): 108
  • observation file-name (gallery): 108

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue smiling face pixel art
  • gray cap white symbol
  • silver ear attachments
  • low-resolution pixel icon
  • smiling blue face
  • white T symbol on cap
  • blue face gray background
  • pixel art smile

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

  • T

Visually Supported Entities

  • T

Wordwall

  • blue circular face
  • black square eyes
  • black curved mouth
  • dark gray cap
  • white symbol on cap
  • silver ear attachments
  • light blue vertical elements
  • solid light gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • smiling expression
  • gradient face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f0/f0a43f5dae0f50bde80f34eb4f1a93a848fbccf472f121dc0641acc1e341e4f5.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
f0a43f5dae0f50bd
SHA-256
f0a43f5dae0f50bde80f34eb4f1a93a848fbccf472f121dc0641acc1e341e4f5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080727

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a dark gray cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,550 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 746

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue face (subject, 0.80)
  • cap (subject, 0.80)
  • ear attachments (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated icon featuring a blue circular face with two black square eyes and a black curved mouth forming a smile. The face has a smooth gradient from light blue to darker blue. It wears a dark gray cap with a white symbol resembling a stylized 'T' or 'I' on the front. Two silver ear-like attachments extend from the sides of the cap, each with a light blue vertical element. The background is solid light gray. The icon uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

Pixelated blue circular face with black eyes and a smiling mouth, wearing a dark gray cap with a white symbol and silver ear-like attachments.

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): 108
  • observation file-name (gallery): 108

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue smiling face pixel art
  • gray cap white symbol
  • silver ear attachments
  • low-resolution pixel icon
  • smiling blue face
  • white T symbol on cap
  • blue face gray background
  • pixel art smile

Objects

  • cap
  • ear attachments

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
  • dithered

Subjects

  • blue face
  • cap
  • ear attachments

Visible Text

  • T

Visually Supported Entities

  • T

Wordwall

  • blue circular face
  • black square eyes
  • black curved mouth
  • dark gray cap
  • white symbol on cap
  • silver ear attachments
  • light blue vertical elements
  • solid light gray background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • smiling expression
  • gradient face
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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
108
Archive entry
Favorites/108.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%2F108.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F108.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons