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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and red striped hat, set against a red background with text elements.

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A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and red striped hat, set against a red background with text elements.

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and red striped hat, set against a red background with text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated portrait of a person with curly brown hair and a green and red striped elf hat, wearing a white shirt. The background is solid red. On the right side, black pixelated text reads "SANTA!!!". Below the portrait, black pixelated text reads "I know him" on the left and "Buddy the elf" on the right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and red striped hat, set against a red background with text elements.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Buddy the elf

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com
  • 2007-2016
  • 201012141233591831261890
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Named Entities

  • Buddy the elf

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Buddy the elf Santa
  • elf hat Santa text
  • Buddy the elf I know him
  • Santa text Buddy the elf
  • pixelated Buddy the elf
  • elf hat I know him
  • Santa text I know him
  • Buddy the elf pixelated

Visible Text

  • SANTA!!!
  • I know him
  • Buddy the elf

Visually Supported Entities

  • Buddy the elf

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • curly brown hair
  • green and red striped hat
  • white shirt
  • solid red background
  • SANTA!!! text
  • I know him text
  • Buddy the elf text
  • low-resolution digital
  • retro appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201012141233591831261890
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/ef2890e87476c2a33481a9884a923fbd65b6fb5a5ac9b0d90889eb5d6e95b108.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
ef2890e87476c2a3
SHA-256
ef2890e87476c2a33481a9884a923fbd65b6fb5a5ac9b0d90889eb5d6e95b108
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098517

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and red striped hat, set against a red background with text elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,956 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 733

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • elf hat (object, 0.80)
  • white shirt (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated portrait of a person with curly brown hair and a green and red striped elf hat, wearing a white shirt. The background is solid red. On the right side, black pixelated text reads "SANTA!!!". Below the portrait, black pixelated text reads "I know him" on the left and "Buddy the elf" on the right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a smiling person with curly hair wearing a green and red striped hat, set against a red background with text elements.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Buddy the elf

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com
  • 2007-2016
  • 201012141233591831261890
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • humorous

Named Entities

  • Buddy the elf

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  • Buddy the elf I know him
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  • pixelated Buddy the elf
  • elf hat I know him
  • Santa text I know him
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  • elf hat
  • white shirt

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • SANTA!!!
  • I know him
  • Buddy the elf

Visually Supported Entities

  • Buddy the elf

Wordwall

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  • curly brown hair
  • green and red striped hat
  • white shirt
  • solid red background
  • SANTA!!! text
  • I know him text
  • Buddy the elf text
  • low-resolution digital
  • retro appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
201012141233591831261890
Archive entry
201012141233591831261890.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201012141233591831261890.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201012141233591831261890.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016