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Pixelated snowman icon with red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and black eyes, set against a blue sky background.

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Pixelated snowman icon with red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and black eyes, set against a blue sky background.

Pixelated snowman icon with red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and black eyes, set against a blue sky background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered snowman
  • red background on right
  • blue sky on left
  • vertical orientation

Dense Caption

The icon depicts a pixelated snowman with a red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and two black eyes. The snowman's body is composed of light blue and white pixels, with a red background on the right side. The left side features a blue sky with white cloud-like patterns. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts typical of low-resolution digital art. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated snowman icon with red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and black eyes, set against a blue sky background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: franksicons
  • provenance collection-attribute: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman pixel art
  • red hat snowman
  • carrot nose snowman
  • blue sky snowman
  • pixelated holiday icon
  • festive snowman icon
  • low-resolution snowman
  • blocky snowman

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • red hat
  • carrot nose
  • black eyes
  • blue sky
  • pixelated
  • white face
  • light blue body
  • red background
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711281046331430695995
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/6a/6ab54430823593f95b46ba5c05ba7239009fedc82c9c4279c7b3b3e035e4375a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
6ab54430823593f9
SHA-256
6ab54430823593f95b46ba5c05ba7239009fedc82c9c4279c7b3b3e035e4375a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078156

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated snowman icon with red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and black eyes, set against a blue sky background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,549 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 736

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • orange
  • black
  • light blue
  • blue

Composition

  • centered snowman
  • red background on right
  • blue sky on left
  • vertical orientation

Dense Caption

The icon depicts a pixelated snowman with a red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and two black eyes. The snowman's body is composed of light blue and white pixels, with a red background on the right side. The left side features a blue sky with white cloud-like patterns. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts typical of low-resolution digital art. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated snowman icon with red hat, white face, orange carrot nose, and black eyes, set against a blue sky background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: franksicons
  • provenance collection-attribute: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • cheerful
  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red hat snowman
  • carrot nose snowman
  • blue sky snowman
  • pixelated holiday icon
  • festive snowman icon
  • low-resolution snowman
  • blocky snowman

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • snowman

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • red hat
  • carrot nose
  • black eyes
  • blue sky
  • pixelated
  • white face
  • light blue body
  • red background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
53
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200711281046331430695995
Archive entry
200711281046331430695995.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711281046331430695995.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711281046331430695995.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016