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A snowman with a black top hat, red band, orange carrot nose, blue checkered scarf, and smiling expression against a light blue background.

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A snowman with a black top hat, red band, orange carrot nose, blue checkered scarf, and smiling expression against a light blue background.

A snowman with a black top hat, red band, orange carrot nose, blue checkered scarf, and smiling expression against a light blue background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text overlay appears in top-left view

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay 'Merry Christmas' appears in the top-left view, then disappears in subsequent views.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • light blue background
  • text overlay in top-left

Dense Caption

The snowman has three stacked snowballs for a body, a black top hat with a red band, an orange carrot nose, black button eyes, a smiling mouth, and a blue checkered scarf. The background is light blue with subtle texture. In the top-left view, green and red text reading 'Merry Christmas' is overlaid on the snowman's hat. The snowman's head is slightly tilted in all views. The right side of the image is grayed out in the bottom-right view.

Description

  • A snowman with a black top hat, red band, orange carrot nose, blue checkered scarf, and smiling expression against a light blue background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081219075653903650101

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman merry christmas
  • merry christmas snowman
  • snowman top hat scarf
  • cartoon snowman blue background
  • merry christmas text overlay
  • snowman carrot nose
  • blue checkered scarf snowman
  • pixelated snowman animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • text overlay is present in one view only

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

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • black top hat
  • red band
  • carrot nose
  • blue checkered scarf
  • smiling mouth
  • light blue background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • grayed-out section

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081219075653903650101
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
50×50 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a750a65b59b5640b93e7b5c23dc72de68696d1308b52e0b5d921a6b6dbdf5d0e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
a750a65b59b5640b
SHA-256
a750a65b59b5640b93e7b5c23dc72de68696d1308b52e0b5d921a6b6dbdf5d0e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082020

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924099onnx/unsafe0.082020onnx/nsfw0.052004onnx/nsfl0.030016
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A snowman with a black top hat, red band, orange carrot nose, blue checkered scarf, and smiling expression against a light blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,711 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 875

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • branch (object, 0.80)
  • carrot nose (object, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • top hat (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • watercolor like (style, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text overlay appears in top-left view

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay 'Merry Christmas' appears in the top-left view, then disappears in subsequent views.

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered subject
  • light blue background
  • text overlay in top-left

Dense Caption

The snowman has three stacked snowballs for a body, a black top hat with a red band, an orange carrot nose, black button eyes, a smiling mouth, and a blue checkered scarf. The background is light blue with subtle texture. In the top-left view, green and red text reading 'Merry Christmas' is overlaid on the snowman's hat. The snowman's head is slightly tilted in all views. The right side of the image is grayed out in the bottom-right view.

Description

  • A snowman with a black top hat, red band, orange carrot nose, blue checkered scarf, and smiling expression against a light blue background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081219075653903650101

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • cheerful
  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman merry christmas
  • merry christmas snowman
  • snowman top hat scarf
  • cartoon snowman blue background
  • merry christmas text overlay
  • snowman carrot nose
  • blue checkered scarf snowman
  • pixelated snowman animation

Objects

  • carrot nose
  • top hat
  • scarf
  • branch

Preprocessing Notes

  • text overlay is present in one view only

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • watercolor-like

Subjects

  • snowman

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • black top hat
  • red band
  • carrot nose
  • blue checkered scarf
  • smiling mouth
  • light blue background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • grayed-out section
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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
20081219075653903650101
Archive entry
20081219075653903650101.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#20081219075653903650101.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081219075653903650101.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016