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Pixelated yellow character with black outline, flat expression, and small rectangular mouth on gray background.

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Pixelated yellow character with black outline, flat expression, and small rectangular mouth on gray background.

Pixelated yellow character with black outline, flat expression, and small rectangular mouth on gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • no additional elements

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon features a bright yellow figure with rounded top edges and two short side extensions resembling arms. The figure has a solid black horizontal rectangle for a mouth positioned below the centerline. A small yellow square sits atop the head area. The entire character is bordered by thick black pixels forming an irregular, slightly rounded shape against a uniform light gray background. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges with no smooth gradients.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow character with black outline, flat expression, and small rectangular mouth on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): runman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): ricon3
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): ricon3
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): ricon3
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Indie Game Culture
  • provenance cultural-slice: indie-game character buddy icons adjacent to Winamp skin culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: indie-games
  • provenance topic-coverage: indie games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly titled Winamp Skin and Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixel art character
  • black outlined yellow figure
  • gray background pixel icon
  • small square top mouth flat expression

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visually Supported Entities

  • yellow character

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • black outline
  • flat mouth
  • small top square
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • no text
  • static image

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1003 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4ae934033306b025bfa27406f9981cb3eaad6194426b74223f383f4a7274421a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
4ae934033306b025
SHA-256
4ae934033306b025bfa27406f9981cb3eaad6194426b74223f383f4a7274421a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082199

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917801onnx/unsafe0.082199onnx/nsfw0.043161onnx/nsfl0.039038
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Pixelated yellow character with black outline, flat expression, and small rectangular mouth on gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,925 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,062, response 657

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit style (style, 0.80)
  • blocky rendering (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • yellow character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background
  • no additional elements

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon features a bright yellow figure with rounded top edges and two short side extensions resembling arms. The figure has a solid black horizontal rectangle for a mouth positioned below the centerline. A small yellow square sits atop the head area. The entire character is bordered by thick black pixels forming an irregular, slightly rounded shape against a uniform light gray background. Pixelation creates visible blocky edges with no smooth gradients.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow character with black outline, flat expression, and small rectangular mouth on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): runman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): ricon3
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): ricon3
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): ricon3
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Indie Game Culture
  • provenance cultural-slice: indie-game character buddy icons adjacent to Winamp skin culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: indie-games
  • provenance topic-coverage: indie games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly titled Winamp Skin and Buddy Icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixel art character
  • black outlined yellow figure
  • gray background pixel icon
  • small square top mouth flat expression

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style
  • blocky rendering

Subjects

  • yellow character

Visually Supported Entities

  • yellow character

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • black outline
  • flat mouth
  • small top square
  • gray background
  • pixelated art
  • no text
  • static image
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons (internet-archive-runman-buddy-icons)

Kind
internet-archive-item
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Indie Game Culture
Type
Internet Archive item explicitly titled Winamp Skin and Buddy Icons
Title
ricon3
Alt
ricon3
Archive entry
ricon3.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Rights
creator-owned game imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
indie-game character buddy icons adjacent to Winamp skin culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/runmanwandn/ricon3.gif#ricon3.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/runmanwandn/ricon3.gif#ricon3.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/runmanwandn