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Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim stands against light blue background with snowflakes, text "SANTA" below.

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Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim stands against light blue background with snowflakes, text "SANTA" below.

Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim stands against light blue background with snowflakes, text "SANTA" below. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • symmetrical snowflakes on left

Dense Caption

Light blue pixelated background contains two stylized snowflake shapes. Central figure is a pixelated Santa Claus: red hat with white trim, brown eyes, white beard, red coat with black belt and white cuffs, black pants. Figure stands facing left. Below the figure, large gray block letters spell "SANTA" in all caps. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim stands against light blue background with snowflakes, text "SANTA" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Claus pixel art
  • snowflakes light blue background
  • SANTA text block letters
  • red hat white beard Santa

Visible Text

  • SANTA

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Claus

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • red hat
  • white beard
  • snowflakes
  • light blue background
  • gray text
  • block letters
  • pixelated
  • red coat
  • black pants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712232040251152303358
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/8733f5e5472ffeb7833a63057d695ee560fa3ff082a0de02877d3736b69a1008.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
8733f5e5472ffeb7
SHA-256
8733f5e5472ffeb7833a63057d695ee560fa3ff082a0de02877d3736b69a1008
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067059

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim stands against light blue background with snowflakes, text "SANTA" below.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:21 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,804 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 595

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • santa claus (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • red
  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • symmetrical snowflakes on left

Dense Caption

Light blue pixelated background contains two stylized snowflake shapes. Central figure is a pixelated Santa Claus: red hat with white trim, brown eyes, white beard, red coat with black belt and white cuffs, black pants. Figure stands facing left. Below the figure, large gray block letters spell "SANTA" in all caps. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim stands against light blue background with snowflakes, text "SANTA" below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Claus pixel art
  • snowflakes light blue background
  • SANTA text block letters
  • red hat white beard Santa

Objects

  • snowflakes

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • Santa Claus

Visible Text

  • SANTA

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Claus

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • red hat
  • white beard
  • snowflakes
  • light blue background
  • gray text
  • block letters
  • pixelated
  • red coat
  • black pants
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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
200712232040251152303358
Archive entry
200712232040251152303358.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712232040251152303358.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712232040251152303358.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016