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Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background.

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Non-canonical
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Pixel-exact
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Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background.

Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background. The character has a rounded blue head with two upright ears. The ears have brown inner sections. The eyes are large, white, and oval-shaped with black pupils. The mouth is a yellow curved shape. The image is pixelated with a gray background. The character's expression is neutral.

Description

  • Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background.

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): 104
  • observation file-name (gallery): 104
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character with yellow smile
  • pixelated blue character with brown ears
  • gray background blue cartoon
  • large white eyes black pupils blue character

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • blue character
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • brown inner ears
  • yellow smile
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • rounded head
  • upright ears
  • neutral expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
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PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 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
fc4b971f602c67ed
SHA-256
fc4b971f602c67ed8520c1e3445f24c9e34d63e6de8468d4b631d8519fbe0d00
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104708

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

Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,886 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • centered character
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background. The character has a rounded blue head with two upright ears. The ears have brown inner sections. The eyes are large, white, and oval-shaped with black pupils. The mouth is a yellow curved shape. The image is pixelated with a gray background. The character's expression is neutral.

Description

  • Blue cartoon character with large white eyes, black pupils, brown inner ears, and a yellow smile on a gray background.

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): 104
  • observation file-name (gallery): 104
  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character with yellow smile
  • pixelated blue character with brown ears
  • gray background blue cartoon
  • large white eyes black pupils blue character

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • blue cartoon character

Wordwall

  • blue character
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • brown inner ears
  • yellow smile
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • rounded head
  • upright ears
  • neutral expression
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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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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
104
Archive entry
Favorites/104.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%2F104.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F104.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons