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Purple egg-shaped character with a wide smile, wearing a yellow straw hat, set against a solid gray background.

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Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
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Purple egg-shaped character with a wide smile, wearing a yellow straw hat, set against a solid gray background.

Purple egg-shaped character with a wide smile, wearing a yellow straw hat, set against a solid gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid background
  • asymmetrical hat placement

Dense Caption

A single pixelated character with a rounded purple body, a single visible eye with a black pupil and white highlight, and a wide toothy grin showing white teeth. The character wears a yellow straw hat with a white outline, positioned slightly askew. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

Description

  • Purple egg-shaped character with a wide smile, wearing a yellow straw hat, set against a solid 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
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • observation title (gallery): 243
  • observation file-name (gallery): 243

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • 243

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple egg character straw hat
  • pixelated character gray background
  • straw hat purple egg
  • toothy grin pixel art
  • yellow hat purple character
  • gray background pixel art
  • single eye pixel character
  • straw hat pixel art

Wordwall

  • purple egg shape
  • yellow straw hat
  • single eye
  • toothy grin
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • white outline
  • asymmetrical hat
  • single visible eye
  • toothy smile
  • solid background
  • limited color palette
  • pixelation
  • white teeth
  • black pupil
  • white highlight
  • straw hat
  • rounded body
  • wide grin

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
f8c0c0ea6814ad8b
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070865

OpenAI category scores

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

Purple egg-shaped character with a wide smile, wearing a yellow straw hat, set against a solid gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,121 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,026, response 741

Review tags

  • grinning (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow straw hat (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • purple egg shaped character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • grinning

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid background
  • asymmetrical hat placement

Dense Caption

A single pixelated character with a rounded purple body, a single visible eye with a black pupil and white highlight, and a wide toothy grin showing white teeth. The character wears a yellow straw hat with a white outline, positioned slightly askew. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and dithering effects.

Description

  • Purple egg-shaped character with a wide smile, wearing a yellow straw hat, set against a solid 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
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • observation title (gallery): 243
  • observation file-name (gallery): 243

Metadata Only Entities

  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • 243

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

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  • pixelated character gray background
  • straw hat purple egg
  • toothy grin pixel art
  • yellow hat purple character
  • gray background pixel art
  • single eye pixel character
  • straw hat pixel art

Objects

  • yellow straw hat

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • purple egg-shaped character

Wordwall

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  • single eye
  • toothy grin
  • gray background
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  • dithering
  • white outline
  • asymmetrical hat
  • single visible eye
  • toothy smile
  • solid background
  • limited color palette
  • pixelation
  • white teeth
  • black pupil
  • white highlight
  • straw hat
  • rounded body
  • wide grin
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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
243
Archive entry
Favorites/243.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%2F243.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F243.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons