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Pixelated Santa Buddy icon with red hat, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above; three views show slight head position differences.

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Pixelated Santa Buddy icon with red hat, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above; three views show slight head position differences.

Pixelated Santa Buddy icon with red hat, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above; three views show slight head position differences. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns left to right

Animation Summary

  • Head turns left to right across three views.

Composition

  • text above character
  • text below character
  • gray corner

Dense Caption

Pixelated Santa Buddy icon features red hat with white trim, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above. The character's head position varies across views: leftmost view shows head turned left, top-right view shows head turned right, bottom-left view shows head turned left. Text below reads 'Santa' with underscore and 'Buddy' in bold. Background is white except for bottom-right corner which is gray. Icon uses 8-bit style with limited color palette.

Description

Pixelated Santa Buddy icon with red hat, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above; three views show slight head position differences.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • Santa Buddy

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Buddy Ho
  • pixelated Santa icon
  • red hat green sack
  • 8-bit Santa Buddy
  • Santa Buddy head turned left
  • Santa Buddy head turned right
  • Santa Buddy underscore
  • Santa Buddy festive humor

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray corner in bottom-right view

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Ho
  • Santa
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Buddy

Wordwall

  • Santa
  • Buddy
  • Ho
  • red hat
  • gray beard
  • red coat
  • green sack
  • underscore
  • bold text
  • white background
  • gray corner
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • head turned left
  • head turned right

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
33853
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c959b937a798b08ed4cd898390a46cdb408443da0028f11af9b616ffeb8d5d56.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 06:09 UTC
Archive ID
c959b937a798b08e
SHA-256
c959b937a798b08ed4cd898390a46cdb408443da0028f11af9b616ffeb8d5d56
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086044

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915209onnx/unsafe0.086044onnx/nsfw0.048550onnx/nsfl0.037494
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated Santa Buddy icon with red hat, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above; three views show slight head position differences.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 819

Review tags

  • head turned left (action, 0.80)
  • head turned right (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • green sack (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • santa buddy (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turned left
  • head turned right

Animation

  • head turns left to right

Animation Summary

  • Head turns left to right across three views.

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text above character
  • text below character
  • gray corner

Dense Caption

Pixelated Santa Buddy icon features red hat with white trim, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above. The character's head position varies across views: leftmost view shows head turned left, top-right view shows head turned right, bottom-left view shows head turned left. Text below reads 'Santa' with underscore and 'Buddy' in bold. Background is white except for bottom-right corner which is gray. Icon uses 8-bit style with limited color palette.

Description

Pixelated Santa Buddy icon with red hat, gray beard, red coat, green sack, and 'Ho' text above; three views show slight head position differences.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal

Metadata Only Entities

  • Santa Buddy

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • festive
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Buddy Ho
  • pixelated Santa icon
  • red hat green sack
  • 8-bit Santa Buddy
  • Santa Buddy head turned left
  • Santa Buddy head turned right
  • Santa Buddy underscore
  • Santa Buddy festive humor

Objects

  • green sack

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray corner in bottom-right view

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • Santa Buddy

Visible Text

  • Ho
  • Santa
  • Buddy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Buddy

Wordwall

  • Santa
  • Buddy
  • Ho
  • red hat
  • gray beard
  • red coat
  • green sack
  • underscore
  • bold text
  • white background
  • gray corner
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • head turned left
  • head turned right
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Full source records (1)

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
33853
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 06:09 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://ballericons.com/icon/33853.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20020610171325id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/33853.gif