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Pixel art of a small creature with large green eyes and brown body curled inside an eggshell, set against light gray background.

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Pixel art of a small creature with large green eyes and brown body curled inside an eggshell, set against light gray background.

Pixel art of a small creature with large green eyes and brown body curled inside an eggshell, set against light gray background. 64×64 PNG AIM buddy icon from PixelJoint Video Gam…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • creature centered in shell opening
  • shell occupies most of frame

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art icon featuring a small creature emerging from a cracked white eggshell. The creature has a dark brown head with two large circular green eyes (each with black pupils), multiple thin brown antennae-like protrusions on its head, and a segmented brown body that curves into the shell's opening. The eggshell is outlined in dark brown pixels with visible cracks radiating from the top center. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation is evident throughout the image.

Description

  • Pixel art of a small creature with large green eyes and brown body curled inside an eggshell, set against light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art
  • provenance collection-attribute: forum-avatars

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
  • 2014
  • Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
  • eggling1png2

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cracked eggshell creature green eyes brown antennae pixel art
  • small creature emerging from eggshell light gray background
  • green-eyed brown creature pixel art eggshell

Visually Supported Entities

  • eggling

Wordwall

  • eggshell
  • cracked
  • green eyes
  • brown antennae
  • segmented body
  • light gray background
  • pixel art

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July 8, 2026

PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section

Source title
Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
Category
pixelart / 2014 / video games / video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
Era
Late-2000s Pixel Art / Forum Avatar Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 19:14 UTC

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PNG
Dimensions
64×64 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/07/079c2659c6bb9ecc6cc40cf4b0a60ac9881b911bfdf71974295ddf313307b41a.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
079c2659c6bb9ecc
SHA-256
079c2659c6bb9ecc6cc40cf4b0a60ac9881b911bfdf71974295ddf313307b41a
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115256

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Pixel art of a small creature with large green eyes and brown body curled inside an eggshell, set against light gray background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:24 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,369 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,039, response 612

Review tags

  • emerging from eggshell (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • curious (mood, 0.80)
  • innocent (mood, 0.80)
  • antennae (object, 0.80)
  • eyes (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • eggshell (subject, 0.80)
  • small creature (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • emerging from eggshell

Colors

  • brown
  • green
  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • creature centered in shell opening
  • shell occupies most of frame

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art icon featuring a small creature emerging from a cracked white eggshell. The creature has a dark brown head with two large circular green eyes (each with black pupils), multiple thin brown antennae-like protrusions on its head, and a segmented brown body that curves into the shell's opening. The eggshell is outlined in dark brown pixels with visible cracks radiating from the top center. The background is solid light gray. Pixelation is evident throughout the image.

Description

  • Pixel art of a small creature with large green eyes and brown body curled inside an eggshell, set against light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art
  • provenance collection-attribute: forum-avatars

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
  • 2014
  • Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
  • eggling1png2

Mood

  • innocent
  • curious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cracked eggshell creature green eyes brown antennae pixel art
  • small creature emerging from eggshell light gray background
  • green-eyed brown creature pixel art eggshell

Objects

  • antennae
  • eyes

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • small creature
  • eggshell

Visually Supported Entities

  • eggling

Wordwall

  • eggshell
  • cracked
  • green eyes
  • brown antennae
  • segmented body
  • light gray background
  • pixel art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:57 UTC
Run
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Version
v3
Elapsed
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Error
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Full source records (1)
PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section (pixeljoint-video-game-aim-icons-cross-section)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Late-2000s Pixel Art / Forum Avatar Gallery
Type
live pixel-art gallery cross-section
Category
pixelart / 2014 / video games / video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
Title
Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
Alt
Eggling icon/pixelart
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
Rights
mixed creator and fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
video-game pixel-art icons overlapping AIM buddy icons, messenger icons, and forum avatars
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