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Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim, holding green object, smiling, with 'Ho Ho Ho!' text in red blocks below.

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Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim, holding green object, smiling, with 'Ho Ho Ho!' text in red blocks below.

Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim, holding green object, smiling, with 'Ho Ho Ho!' text in red blocks below. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text below

Dense Caption

Pixelated Santa Claus figure with red hat and white trim, white beard, red suit with white trim, holding dark green object in left hand, smiling with visible teeth, pink cheeks, black eyes, red rectangular blocks with black text 'Ho Ho Ho!' below, white background, 8-bit style, static image, no visible motion changes.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim, holding green object, smiling, with 'Ho Ho Ho!' text in red blocks below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200812181808171238921782

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Claus pixel art
  • Ho Ho Ho text
  • red hat green object
  • 8-bit Santa

Visible Text

  • Ho Ho Ho!

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • red hat
  • white beard
  • red suit
  • green object
  • smiling
  • pink cheeks
  • black eyes
  • Ho Ho Ho!
  • red blocks
  • 8-bit style
  • white background
  • static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812181808171238921782
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4aa2b6352689783b5acc04d9d8446741446d671bbe65931520be64ad613be641.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
4aa2b6352689783b
SHA-256
4aa2b6352689783b5acc04d9d8446741446d671bbe65931520be64ad613be641
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100485

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim, holding green object, smiling, with 'Ho Ho Ho!' text in red blocks below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 616

Review tags

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  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding
  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • green
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text below

Dense Caption

Pixelated Santa Claus figure with red hat and white trim, white beard, red suit with white trim, holding dark green object in left hand, smiling with visible teeth, pink cheeks, black eyes, red rectangular blocks with black text 'Ho Ho Ho!' below, white background, 8-bit style, static image, no visible motion changes.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim, holding green object, smiling, with 'Ho Ho Ho!' text in red blocks below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200812181808171238921782

Mood

  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Claus pixel art
  • Ho Ho Ho text
  • red hat green object
  • 8-bit Santa

Objects

  • green object

Style

  • 8-bit
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • Santa Claus

Visible Text

  • Ho Ho Ho!

Wordwall

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  • red hat
  • white beard
  • red suit
  • green object
  • smiling
  • pink cheeks
  • black eyes
  • Ho Ho Ho!
  • red blocks
  • 8-bit style
  • white background
  • static
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200812181808171238921782
Archive entry
200812181808171238921782.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812181808171238921782.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812181808171238921782.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016