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Pixelated snowman icon with black top hat, red scarf, and brown stick arms against light blue background.

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Pixelated snowman icon with black top hat, red scarf, and brown stick arms against light blue background.

Pixelated snowman icon with black top hat, red scarf, and brown stick arms against light blue background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • square frame
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a snowman composed of white circular segments. Snowman wears a dark gray top hat with red band. Face has black dot eyes, orange carrot nose, and black dot mouth. Red scarf tied in a knot around neck. Three black buttons on torso. Brown stick arms extend from sides; right arm holds brown stick. Light blue background with subtle pixelated texture. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated snowman icon with black top hat, red scarf, and brown stick arms against light blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman top hat red scarf
  • pixelated snowman holiday icon
  • cartoon snowman with carrot nose
  • buddy icon snowman stick arms

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • possible dithering

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

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • top hat
  • red scarf
  • carrot nose
  • black buttons
  • stick arms
  • light blue background
  • pixelated
  • white body
  • brown stick

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912051637261227899765
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d4/d429bfd5035fa097ca3b973efef08f3cc3806f811452421b302292e714a65790.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
d429bfd5035fa097
SHA-256
d429bfd5035fa097ca3b973efef08f3cc3806f811452421b302292e714a65790
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087438

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated snowman icon with black top hat, red scarf, and brown stick arms against light blue background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,906 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 753

Review tags

  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • buttons (object, 0.80)
  • carrot nose (object, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • stick (object, 0.80)
  • stick arms (object, 0.80)
  • top hat (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered subject
  • square frame
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a snowman composed of white circular segments. Snowman wears a dark gray top hat with red band. Face has black dot eyes, orange carrot nose, and black dot mouth. Red scarf tied in a knot around neck. Three black buttons on torso. Brown stick arms extend from sides; right arm holds brown stick. Light blue background with subtle pixelated texture. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated snowman icon with black top hat, red scarf, and brown stick arms against light blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman top hat red scarf
  • pixelated snowman holiday icon
  • cartoon snowman with carrot nose
  • buddy icon snowman stick arms

Objects

  • top hat
  • scarf
  • carrot nose
  • buttons
  • stick arms
  • stick

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • possible dithering

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • snowman

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • top hat
  • red scarf
  • carrot nose
  • black buttons
  • stick arms
  • light blue background
  • pixelated
  • white body
  • brown stick
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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
200912051637261227899765
Archive entry
200912051637261227899765.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912051637261227899765.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912051637261227899765.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016