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Pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and red lips, with vertical text reading TESS on the right side.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and red lips, with vertical text reading TESS on the right side.

Pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and red lips, with vertical text reading TESS on the right side. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • square crop
  • vertical text on right
  • close-up portrait

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up portrait of a person with light skin tone, blue eyes, and red lips. The person has dark hair styled in a side parting. Vertical text reading TESS appears on the right side of the image. The background consists of light brown and beige tones. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible pixelation. The person's mouth is slightly open in a subtle smile. The left eye is partially visible. The right eye is more prominent. The nose is visible with a slight shadow. The lips are painted red. The hair is dark and appears to be long. The image has a square crop. The overall color palette includes shades of beige, brown, blue, red, and black.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and red lips, with vertical text reading TESS on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance cultural-slice: cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, 20
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tess
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: categorized

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: coolbuddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: dollbuddieicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with red lips blue eyes
  • TESS vertical text
  • pixelated close-up portrait
  • beige background pixel art
  • subtle smile red lips
  • dark hair blue eyes
  • vertical text TESS
  • low-resolution pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelated image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: coolbuddy
  • provenance cultural-slice: cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: dollbuddieicons

Visible Text

  • TESS

Wordwall

  • light skin
  • blue eyes
  • red lips
  • dark hair
  • vertical text
  • TESS
  • pixelated
  • square crop
  • subtle smile
  • beige background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_plasticlove_Tess
Category
IconHell/TV
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com

Source title
Buddy Icons by plasticlove
Category
buddy icons by plasticlove / buddy icons by plasticlove
Observed
August 29, 2026 at 10:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e3ed28610b416972ad8f67f06f9fa4164b1808aeac26f42c88aea1c8608d049c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:56 UTC
Archive ID
e3ed28610b416972
SHA-256
e3ed28610b416972ad8f67f06f9fa4164b1808aeac26f42c88aea1c8608d049c
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 10:45 UTC
Run
15969
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 09:40 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and red lips, with vertical text reading TESS on the right side.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 13:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,267 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,067, response 925

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • subtle smile (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • blue
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • square crop
  • vertical text on right
  • close-up portrait

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up portrait of a person with light skin tone, blue eyes, and red lips. The person has dark hair styled in a side parting. Vertical text reading TESS appears on the right side of the image. The background consists of light brown and beige tones. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with visible pixelation. The person's mouth is slightly open in a subtle smile. The left eye is partially visible. The right eye is more prominent. The nose is visible with a slight shadow. The lips are painted red. The hair is dark and appears to be long. The image has a square crop. The overall color palette includes shades of beige, brown, blue, red, and black.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and red lips, with vertical text reading TESS on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance cultural-slice: cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, 20
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized

Metadata Only Entities

  • Tess
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: categorized

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: coolbuddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: dollbuddieicons

Mood

  • subtle smile

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with red lips blue eyes
  • TESS vertical text
  • pixelated close-up portrait
  • beige background pixel art
  • subtle smile red lips
  • dark hair blue eyes
  • vertical text TESS
  • low-resolution pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelated image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2000
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: badass-buddy
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: categorized
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: coolbuddy
  • provenance cultural-slice: cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: dollbuddieicons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • TESS

Wordwall

  • light skin
  • blue eyes
  • red lips
  • dark hair
  • vertical text
  • TESS
  • pixelated
  • square crop
  • subtle smile
  • beige background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 08:59 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 (2)
Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/TV
Title
iconhell_plasticlove_Tess
Archive entry
IconHell/TV/iconhell_plasticlove_Tess.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:56 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture
Original: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FTV%2Ficonhell_plasticlove_Tess.gif Download: https://www.iconhell.com/#IconHell%2FTV%2Ficonhell_plasticlove_Tess.gif Page: https://github.com/Hmmnd0/buddy-icon-repository 
Prospect live gallery www.iconhell.com (horizon-live-www-iconhell-com-f685daddb571)
Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
buddy icons by plasticlove / buddy icons by plasticlove
Title
Buddy Icons by plasticlove
Observed
August 29, 2026 at 10:55 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.
Original: http://www.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_plasticlove_Tess.gif Download: http://www.iconhell.com/buddy_icons/iconhell_plasticlove_Tess.gif Page: http://www.iconhell.com/Buddy_Icons_by_plasticlove.html