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Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair, closed eye with blue highlight, and open mouth showing black pupil and red interior.

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Perceptual
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Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair, closed eye with blue highlight, and open mouth showing black pupil and red interior.

Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair, closed eye with blue highlight, and open mouth showing black pupil and red interior. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped head
  • solid gray background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair rendered in 8-bit style. Hair has gradient from bright yellow to orange with white highlights. One eye is closed with blue pixel accent; the other eye is open with black pupil and red interior. Mouth is open showing black and red pixels. Skin tone is light beige. Background is solid gray. No visible clothing or props. Composition is cropped to head and upper hair. Rendering uses dithering for shading. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair, closed eye with blue highlight, and open mouth showing black pupil and red interior.

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): 256
  • observation file-name (gallery): 256

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiky yellow-orange hair character
  • closed eye blue highlight open eye red mouth
  • 8-bit pixel art character head
  • gray background pixel art head

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

Wordwall

  • spiky yellow-orange hair
  • closed eye with blue highlight
  • open eye with black pupil
  • mouth with red interior
  • light beige skin
  • solid gray background
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • dithered shading
  • cropped head composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f5/f5fcfc62fa78368fe73c1ef0efbe1861ae03d47166cc0779f490b593f7bb1d78.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
f5fcfc62fa78368f
SHA-256
f5fcfc62fa78368fe73c1ef0efbe1861ae03d47166cc0779f490b593f7bb1d78
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023030

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
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1140
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair, closed eye with blue highlight, and open mouth showing black pupil and red interior.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,026, response 741

Review tags

  • eye closed (action, 0.80)
  • eye open (action, 0.80)
  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • intense (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • dithered shading (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character head (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth open
  • eye closed
  • eye open

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • black
  • red
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped head
  • solid gray background

Dense Caption

Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair rendered in 8-bit style. Hair has gradient from bright yellow to orange with white highlights. One eye is closed with blue pixel accent; the other eye is open with black pupil and red interior. Mouth is open showing black and red pixels. Skin tone is light beige. Background is solid gray. No visible clothing or props. Composition is cropped to head and upper hair. Rendering uses dithering for shading. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated character head with spiky yellow-orange hair, closed eye with blue highlight, and open mouth showing black pupil and red interior.

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): 256
  • observation file-name (gallery): 256

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • surprised
  • intense

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiky yellow-orange hair character
  • closed eye blue highlight open eye red mouth
  • 8-bit pixel art character head
  • gray background pixel art head

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
  • 8-bit
  • dithered shading

Subjects

  • character head

Wordwall

  • spiky yellow-orange hair
  • closed eye with blue highlight
  • open eye with black pupil
  • mouth with red interior
  • light beige skin
  • solid gray background
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • dithered shading
  • cropped head composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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 (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
256
Archive entry
Favorites/256.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%2F256.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F256.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons