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Pixelated cartoon character with light skin, large black eyes, and a small nose, wearing a light gray cap and shirt against a black background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with light skin, large black eyes, and a small nose, wearing a light gray cap and shirt against a black background.

Pixelated cartoon character with light skin, large black eyes, and a small nose, wearing a light gray cap and shirt against a black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayba…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with light skin tone, large black eyes with brown irises, small brown nose, and visible ear. Character wears light gray cap and light gray shirt. Background is solid black. Pixelation is prominent, with visible dithering and blocky rendering. No text or symbols present. Composition is close-up, centered on face. Expression appears neutral with slightly open mouth. Colors include light gray, black, brown, and beige. Style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with light skin, large black eyes, and a small nose, wearing a light gray cap and shirt against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: birthdays
  • provenance topic-coverage: brands
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddysite
  • buddysite-01118

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character gray cap black background
  • pixelated neutral expression beige skin
  • gray shirt black eyes brown nose
  • low-resolution digital art neutral face

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: buddysite
  • observation alt-text: buddysite-01118
  • observation file-name: buddysite-01118
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: birthdays
  • provenance topic-coverage: brands
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • light gray cap
  • light gray shirt
  • black background
  • large black eyes
  • small brown nose
  • visible ear
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • beige skin
  • brown irises

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-01118
Category
buddyicons
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:01 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51cc502ed443343e2337cf001ef62179a9fe17108c549af370296fd92a6d08ed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Archive ID
51cc502ed443343e
SHA-256
51cc502ed443343e2337cf001ef62179a9fe17108c549af370296fd92a6d08ed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082203

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated cartoon character with light skin, large black eyes, and a small nose, wearing a light gray cap and shirt against a black background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 23:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,700 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,047, response 735

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light gray
  • beige
  • brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with light skin tone, large black eyes with brown irises, small brown nose, and visible ear. Character wears light gray cap and light gray shirt. Background is solid black. Pixelation is prominent, with visible dithering and blocky rendering. No text or symbols present. Composition is close-up, centered on face. Expression appears neutral with slightly open mouth. Colors include light gray, black, brown, and beige. Style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with light skin, large black eyes, and a small nose, wearing a light gray cap and shirt against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: birthdays
  • provenance topic-coverage: brands
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddysite
  • buddysite-01118

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character gray cap black background
  • pixelated neutral expression beige skin
  • gray shirt black eyes brown nose
  • low-resolution digital art neutral face

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: buddysite
  • observation alt-text: buddysite-01118
  • observation file-name: buddysite-01118
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: birthdays
  • provenance topic-coverage: brands
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • light gray cap
  • light gray shirt
  • black background
  • large black eyes
  • small brown nose
  • visible ear
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • beige skin
  • brown irises
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 05:53 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)
Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs (wayback-buddysite-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive direct asset recovery from a dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal
Category
buddyicons
Alt
buddysite-01118
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM buddy-icon portal spanning animals, anime, brands, birthdays, fandom, moods, relationships, sports, and other period identity graphics
Original: http://www.buddysite.com/buddyicons/buddysite-01118.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20101230123516id_/http://www.buddysite.com/buddyicons/buddysite-01118.gif