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Pixelated icon shows a snowman with a top hat, red accents, and outstretched arms, flanked by text reading 'Christ' and 'Buddy' on a gray background.

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Pixelated icon shows a snowman with a top hat, red accents, and outstretched arms, flanked by text reading 'Christ' and 'Buddy' on a gray background.

Pixelated icon shows a snowman with a top hat, red accents, and outstretched arms, flanked by text reading 'Christ' and 'Buddy' on a gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered snowman
  • text above and below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top text: 'Christ' in black and white pixelated font with a black underline. Center: Snowman figure with white body, black outline, brown top hat, brown arms, red accents on chest and hands, and checkered pattern on hat. Bottom text: 'Buddy' in black and white pixelated font. Snowman has outstretched arms. All elements are static. Pixelation is consistent across all visual components.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a snowman with a top hat, red accents, and outstretched arms, flanked by text reading 'Christ' and 'Buddy' on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • 27731
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 27731
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 27731

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman top hat red accents
  • Christ Buddy pixel art
  • gray background snowman
  • outstretched arms snowman

Visible Text

  • Christ
  • Buddy

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • top hat
  • red accents
  • outstretched arms
  • gray background
  • pixelated font
  • Christ text
  • Buddy text
  • black outline
  • checkered hat pattern

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
27731
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:38 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d9499322713d8e34091acad2e9baa1caf336534bd1fe19f9b45735205faf895.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Archive ID
3d9499322713d8e3
SHA-256
3d9499322713d8e34091acad2e9baa1caf336534bd1fe19f9b45735205faf895
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 10:52 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022940

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:26 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090001

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon shows a snowman with a top hat, red accents, and outstretched arms, flanked by text reading 'Christ' and 'Buddy' on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,221 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,050, response 766

Review tags

  • outstretched arms (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red accents (object, 0.80)
  • top hat (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • outstretched arms

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • centered snowman
  • text above and below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Gray background. Top text: 'Christ' in black and white pixelated font with a black underline. Center: Snowman figure with white body, black outline, brown top hat, brown arms, red accents on chest and hands, and checkered pattern on hat. Bottom text: 'Buddy' in black and white pixelated font. Snowman has outstretched arms. All elements are static. Pixelation is consistent across all visual components.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a snowman with a top hat, red accents, and outstretched arms, flanked by text reading 'Christ' and 'Buddy' on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • 27731
  • Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 27731
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 27731

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman top hat red accents
  • Christ Buddy pixel art
  • gray background snowman
  • outstretched arms snowman

Objects

  • top hat
  • red accents

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • snowman

Visible Text

  • Christ
  • Buddy

Wordwall

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  • top hat
  • red accents
  • outstretched arms
  • gray background
  • pixelated font
  • Christ text
  • Buddy text
  • black outline
  • checkered hat pattern
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
27731
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://ballericons.com/icon/27731.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010821170257id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/27731.gif