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Pixelated icon of a round gray figure wearing a red Santa hat with white trim and a gold pom-pom, set against a solid gray background.

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Pixel-exact
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Perceptual
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Pixelated icon of a round gray figure wearing a red Santa hat with white trim and a gold pom-pom, set against a solid gray background.

Pixelated icon of a round gray figure wearing a red Santa hat with white trim and a gold pom-pom, set against a solid gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, round gray figure with two black square eyes and a subtle smile. The figure wears a red Santa hat with white trim and a small gold pom-pom at the top. The hat has a slightly pixelated texture with red and white pixels. The background is a solid light gray color. The figure's body is partially visible with a black section at the bottom. The image is rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a round gray figure wearing a red Santa hat with white trim and a gold pom-pom, set against a solid gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 094
  • mybuddy3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated gray figure santa hat
  • red white gold hat gray background
  • low-resolution festive icon
  • Santa hat gray figure smile
  • pixelated blocky Santa icon
  • gray figure white trim gold pom-pom
  • festive pixel art icon
  • Santa hat gray background smile

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • round gray figure
  • red Santa hat
  • white trim
  • gold pom-pom
  • black square eyes
  • subtle smile
  • solid gray background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1b/1ba5cbb3676cde380eaf1c53477fc85e4b63ed322605f3f80687644bb74f1521.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
1ba5cbb3676cde38
SHA-256
1ba5cbb3676cde380eaf1c53477fc85e4b63ed322605f3f80687644bb74f1521
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000602

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated icon of a round gray figure wearing a red Santa hat with white trim and a gold pom-pom, set against a solid gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,195 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 662

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • round gray figure (subject, 0.80)
  • santa hat (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • white
  • gold
  • black

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, round gray figure with two black square eyes and a subtle smile. The figure wears a red Santa hat with white trim and a small gold pom-pom at the top. The hat has a slightly pixelated texture with red and white pixels. The background is a solid light gray color. The figure's body is partially visible with a black section at the bottom. The image is rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a round gray figure wearing a red Santa hat with white trim and a gold pom-pom, set against a solid gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 094
  • mybuddy3

Mood

  • neutral
  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated gray figure santa hat
  • red white gold hat gray background
  • low-resolution festive icon
  • Santa hat gray figure smile
  • pixelated blocky Santa icon
  • gray figure white trim gold pom-pom
  • festive pixel art icon
  • Santa hat gray background smile

Objects

  • Santa hat

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • round gray figure
  • Santa hat

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • round gray figure
  • red Santa hat
  • white trim
  • gold pom-pom
  • black square eyes
  • subtle smile
  • solid gray background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:24 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)
Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons (internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Downloadware
Type
safely extracted archived Windows utility icon library
Category
Favorites
Title
094
Archive entry
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Observed
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Rights
publisher-described original utility-bundled icons; research/reference only by default
Slice
desktop utility bundled icon collections
Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F094.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F094.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons