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Pixel art of a snowman skiing with blue outfit and hat, holding ski poles against gray background with white dots.

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Pixel art of a snowman skiing with blue outfit and hat, holding ski poles against gray background with white dots.

Pixel art of a snowman skiing with blue outfit and hat, holding ski poles against gray background with white dots. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nativ…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left figure skis angle left, right figure skis angle right

Animation Summary

  • Two identical snowman figures side-by-side; left figure skis angle left, right figure skis angle right.

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text below figures
  • snow dots scattered background

Dense Caption

Gray background contains scattered white square pixels resembling falling snow. Two identical pixelated figures stand side-by-side; each has round white head with black dot eyes and pink mouth, wearing blue dotted hat with green brim, light blue shirt, dark blue pants, and holding two blue ski poles. Left figure's skis are angled leftward while right figure's skis angle rightward. Below both figures is text 'Ski Buddy' in bold pixelated font with black outline and white fill.

Description

  • Pixel art of a snowman skiing with blue outfit and hat, holding ski poles against gray background with white dots.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 31
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 31
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman skiing blue hat green brim
  • Ski Buddy pixel art
  • two ski poles white square snow gray background
  • blue dotted hat light blue shirt dark blue pants

Visible Text

  • Ski Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ski Buddy text

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • skiing
  • blue dotted hat
  • green brim
  • light blue shirt
  • dark blue pants
  • two ski poles
  • white square snow
  • gray background
  • Ski Buddy text

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
31
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/b9/b9ecd6f7e2529f9c222ed66be7187ef4237ffb6c85914778f5307ec4a56bc438.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:53 UTC
Archive ID
b9ecd6f7e2529f9c
SHA-256
b9ecd6f7e2529f9c222ed66be7187ef4237ffb6c85914778f5307ec4a56bc438
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070059

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art of a snowman skiing with blue outfit and hat, holding ski poles against gray background with white dots.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,698 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 741

Review tags

  • skiing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • wintery (mood, 0.80)
  • ski poles (object, 0.80)
  • skis (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowman figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • skiing

Animation

  • left figure skis angle left, right figure skis angle right

Animation Summary

  • Two identical snowman figures side-by-side; left figure skis angle left, right figure skis angle right.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • blue
  • green
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text below figures
  • snow dots scattered background

Dense Caption

Gray background contains scattered white square pixels resembling falling snow. Two identical pixelated figures stand side-by-side; each has round white head with black dot eyes and pink mouth, wearing blue dotted hat with green brim, light blue shirt, dark blue pants, and holding two blue ski poles. Left figure's skis are angled leftward while right figure's skis angle rightward. Below both figures is text 'Ski Buddy' in bold pixelated font with black outline and white fill.

Description

  • Pixel art of a snowman skiing with blue outfit and hat, holding ski poles against gray background with white dots.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 31
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 31
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • wintery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman skiing blue hat green brim
  • Ski Buddy pixel art
  • two ski poles white square snow gray background
  • blue dotted hat light blue shirt dark blue pants

Objects

  • ski poles
  • skis

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • snowman figure

Visible Text

  • Ski Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ski Buddy text

Wordwall

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  • skiing
  • blue dotted hat
  • green brim
  • light blue shirt
  • dark blue pants
  • two ski poles
  • white square snow
  • gray background
  • Ski Buddy text
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Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
31
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:53 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://www.ballericons.com/icon/31.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140505id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/31.gif