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A snowman with a green scarf, holly hat, and orange carrot nose stands against a white background.

A snowman with a green scarf, holly hat, and orange carrot nose stands against a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • simple background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated snowman with three black buttons on its torso. It has an orange carrot-shaped nose, two stick arms, and a smiling face with coal eyes and mouth. The snowman wears a green scarf tied in a bow at the neck and a dark top hat adorned with holly leaves and red berries. The background is white with faint circular patterns.

Description

  • A snowman with a green scarf, holly hat, and orange carrot nose stands against a white 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman green scarf holly hat
  • carrot nose stick arms snowman
  • green scarf holly hat smiling snowman

Visually Supported Entities

  • snowman

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • green scarf
  • holly hat
  • carrot nose
  • stick arms
  • coal eyes
  • smiling face
  • three black buttons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081222164241309161964
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dc67008ca52b9ce76c978927b28e7cc6cb30c1278ceb3e088124929fba08b8a5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
dc67008ca52b9ce7
SHA-256
dc67008ca52b9ce76c978927b28e7cc6cb30c1278ceb3e088124929fba08b8a5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092566

OpenAI category scores

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A snowman with a green scarf, holly hat, and orange carrot nose stands against a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,802 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 575

Review tags

  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • buttons (object, 0.80)
  • carrot nose (object, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • stick arms (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black
  • orange
  • red
  • brown

Composition

  • centered subject
  • simple background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated snowman with three black buttons on its torso. It has an orange carrot-shaped nose, two stick arms, and a smiling face with coal eyes and mouth. The snowman wears a green scarf tied in a bow at the neck and a dark top hat adorned with holly leaves and red berries. The background is white with faint circular patterns.

Description

  • A snowman with a green scarf, holly hat, and orange carrot nose stands against a white 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman green scarf holly hat
  • carrot nose stick arms snowman
  • green scarf holly hat smiling snowman

Objects

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • snowman

Visually Supported Entities

  • snowman

Wordwall

  • snowman
  • green scarf
  • holly hat
  • carrot nose
  • stick arms
  • coal eyes
  • smiling face
  • three black buttons
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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
20081222164241309161964
Archive entry
20081222164241309161964.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081222164241309161964.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081222164241309161964.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016