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A green background with yellow pixelated text and a small image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green hat and white shirt.

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A green background with yellow pixelated text and a small image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green hat and white shirt.

A green background with yellow pixelated text and a small image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green hat and white shirt. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: small image of person
  • right: text blocks

Dense Caption

The image features a green background with yellow pixelated text. On the left side, there is a small rectangular image of a smiling person with curly brown hair, wearing a green hat with an orange stripe and a white shirt. The text on the right side reads "Santa... I know him" at the top, "Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color..?" in the middle, and "I like Smiling It's my Favorite..!" at the bottom. The text is in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A green background with yellow pixelated text and a small image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green hat and white shirt.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Buddy the elf

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Buddy the elf Santa I know him
  • Santa I know him Buddy the elf
  • Buddy the elf Smiling Favorite
  • Santa I know him Smiling Favorite
  • Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color
  • Santa I know him what's your Fav Color
  • Buddy the elf I like Smiling
  • Santa I know him I like Smiling

Visible Text

  • Santa...
  • I know him
  • Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color..?
  • I like Smiling It's my Favorite..!

Wordwall

  • green background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • smiling person
  • curly brown hair
  • green hat with orange stripe
  • white shirt
  • Santa... I know him
  • Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color..?
  • I like Smiling It's my Favorite..!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081118134625534777733
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
735b11d311614bcc
SHA-256
735b11d311614bcc85fdd2992f6bf84fb0c9e5ddf75d977e232b6e9a9c917f09
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122593

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A green background with yellow pixelated text and a small image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green hat and white shirt.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,959 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 778

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • green hat (object, 0.80)
  • white shirt (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • left: small image of person
  • right: text blocks

Dense Caption

The image features a green background with yellow pixelated text. On the left side, there is a small rectangular image of a smiling person with curly brown hair, wearing a green hat with an orange stripe and a white shirt. The text on the right side reads "Santa... I know him" at the top, "Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color..?" in the middle, and "I like Smiling It's my Favorite..!" at the bottom. The text is in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A green background with yellow pixelated text and a small image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green hat and white shirt.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Buddy the elf

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Buddy the elf Santa I know him
  • Santa I know him Buddy the elf
  • Buddy the elf Smiling Favorite
  • Santa I know him Smiling Favorite
  • Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color
  • Santa I know him what's your Fav Color
  • Buddy the elf I like Smiling
  • Santa I know him I like Smiling

Objects

  • green hat
  • white shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Santa...
  • I know him
  • Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color..?
  • I like Smiling It's my Favorite..!

Wordwall

  • green background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • smiling person
  • curly brown hair
  • green hat with orange stripe
  • white shirt
  • Santa... I know him
  • Buddy the elf what's your Fav Color..?
  • I like Smiling It's my Favorite..!
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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
20081118134625534777733
Archive entry
20081118134625534777733.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081118134625534777733.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081118134625534777733.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016