Pixelated static image of a person with brown hair against a gradient background, appearing as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon.

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Pixelated static image of a person with brown hair against a gradient background, appearing as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon.

Pixelated static image of a person with brown hair against a gradient background, appearing as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX CoolB…

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Animation

  • static/no motion

Animation Summary

  • static single-frame pixel art with no motion changes

Composition

  • centered subject
  • horizontal gradient background bands
  • cropped to head and shoulders

Dense Caption

Static 48x48 pixel art icon rendered at 256x256 pixels. The central subject is a person with short brown curly hair featuring darker roots and lighter highlights. Facial features include visible eyes (one partially closed), nose, mouth, and ears. The background consists of horizontal gradient bands: light beige top transitioning to pale lavender middle, then muted blue at the bottom. Pixelation creates dithering effects on edges and shadows. No text or additional objects are present. Hair has subtle shading variations suggesting volume. Skin tone is medium brown with darker pixel clusters for facial contours. The image shows no motion or animation frames. Background appears solid without transparency artifacts.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with brown hair against a gradient background, appearing as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Tom (name) | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: source hint 'tom02' + neutral male appearance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • vanillasky branding not visible in pixels
  • movie character identity unconfirmed by visual evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • vanillasky
  • tom02

Named Entities

  • Tom

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair pixel art icon
  • beige lavender blue gradient buddy icon
  • neutral expression static AIM icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • rendered at 256x256 pixels from original 48x48 size
  • no animation frames present

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols; cartoonish rendering

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'vanillasky' branding, possible movie character reference (tom02), and category as icon/movies/vanillasky

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • medium skin tone
  • beige gradient background
  • pale lavender band
  • muted blue base
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithered edges
  • one eye partially closed
  • facial contour shading
  • static single-frame icon
  • 48x48 pixel art
  • 256x256 render size
  • no visible text
  • hair highlights
  • ear visibility
  • neutral expression
  • gradient background bands
  • brown hair roots
  • light beige top band
  • pale lavender middle band
  • muted blue bottom band

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
ico_vanillasky_tom02
Category
icon / movies / vanillasky / ico vanillasky tom02
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:17 UTC

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-02607
Category
buddyicons / people
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:29 UTC

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-02607
Category
people
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/0d/0de16b0a12f8394088e3ee7ea713af77ffc5fb4c247062a49c57632a62a48e75.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
0de16b0a12f83940
SHA-256
0de16b0a12f8394088e3ee7ea713af77ffc5fb4c247062a49c57632a62a48e75
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074589

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925411onnx/unsafe0.074589onnx/nsfl0.038928onnx/nsfw0.035661
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
27
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a person with brown hair against a gradient background, appearing as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
14,744 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,793, response 985

Review tags

  • static single frame (animation, 1.00)
  • pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • brown curly hair (subject, 0.95)
  • beige top band (composition, 0.90)
  • gradient background (composition, 0.90)
  • muted blue bottom band (composition, 0.90)
  • pale lavender middle band (composition, 0.90)
  • dithered edges (style, 0.90)
  • medium brown skin tone (colors, 0.85)
  • neutral expression (mood, 0.85)

Animation

  • static/no motion

Animation Summary

  • static single-frame pixel art with no motion changes

Colors

  • beige
  • pale lavender
  • muted blue
  • medium brown
  • dark brown

Composition

  • centered subject
  • horizontal gradient background bands
  • cropped to head and shoulders

Dense Caption

Static 48x48 pixel art icon rendered at 256x256 pixels. The central subject is a person with short brown curly hair featuring darker roots and lighter highlights. Facial features include visible eyes (one partially closed), nose, mouth, and ears. The background consists of horizontal gradient bands: light beige top transitioning to pale lavender middle, then muted blue at the bottom. Pixelation creates dithering effects on edges and shadows. No text or additional objects are present. Hair has subtle shading variations suggesting volume. Skin tone is medium brown with darker pixel clusters for facial contours. The image shows no motion or animation frames. Background appears solid without transparency artifacts.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with brown hair against a gradient background, appearing as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Tom (name) | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: source hint 'tom02' + neutral male appearance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • vanillasky branding not visible in pixels
  • movie character identity unconfirmed by visual evidence

Metadata Only Entities

  • vanillasky
  • tom02

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Tom

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown curly hair pixel art icon
  • beige lavender blue gradient buddy icon
  • neutral expression static AIM icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • rendered at 256x256 pixels from original 48x48 size
  • no animation frames present

Safety Notes

  • no visible nudity, explicit content, or hate symbols; cartoonish rendering

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'vanillasky' branding, possible movie character reference (tom02), and category as icon/movies/vanillasky

Style

  • pixel art
  • static single-frame
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • brown curly hair
  • medium skin tone
  • beige gradient background
  • pale lavender band
  • muted blue base
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithered edges
  • one eye partially closed
  • facial contour shading
  • static single-frame icon
  • 48x48 pixel art
  • 256x256 render size
  • no visible text
  • hair highlights
  • ear visibility
  • neutral expression
  • gradient background bands
  • brown hair roots
  • light beige top band
  • pale lavender middle band
  • muted blue bottom band
Raw JSON
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Full source records (3)

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / movies / vanillasky / ico vanillasky tom02
Alt
ico_vanillasky_tom02
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:17 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

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 / people
Alt
buddysite-02607
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:29 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

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
people
Alt
buddysite-02607
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 06:27 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