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Pixelated Santa face with red hat, white beard, and smiling expression on solid light blue background.

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Pixelated Santa face with red hat, white beard, and smiling expression on solid light blue background.

Pixelated Santa face with red hat, white beard, and smiling expression on solid light blue background. 48×48 JPG AIM buddy icon from AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • circular face shape
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a round-faced character wearing a red Santa hat with dark brown trim. The figure has a thick white beard covering the lower half of its face, black circular eyes, a small red nose, and a curved black mouth forming a smile. The background is a solid light blue color. The image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa face with red hat, white beard, and smiling expression on solid light blue background.

Metadata Only Entities

  • Jinny Davis
  • JinnyD
  • EPaint
  • AIM
  • Seasonal
  • Holiday
  • Winter
  • Graphic Arts
  • Top Pick
  • FD

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002-2003
  • provenance source-name: AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa pixel art smile
  • red hat white beard blue background
  • 8-bit Santa icon
  • smiling Santa face pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about upload date, author name, and collection context but is not authoritative for visual facts.

Wordwall

  • red hat
  • white beard
  • black eyes
  • red nose
  • smiling mouth
  • light blue background
  • pixelated art
  • round face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons

Source title
Ho Ho Ho
Category
24BIT_ Ho Ho Ho
Era
2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
JPG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3ab9c5aa707b0edd0c11e327a7d269e906b0ee9c86ce420cf30d2f162fb378d2.jpg
Media type
image/jpeg
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Archive ID
3ab9c5aa707b0edd
SHA-256
3ab9c5aa707b0edd0c11e327a7d269e906b0ee9c86ce420cf30d2f162fb378d2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065167

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated Santa face with red hat, white beard, and smiling expression on solid light blue background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,244 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,132, response 553

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • santa hat (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • santa claus figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • light blue
  • brown

Composition

  • centered subject
  • circular face shape
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a round-faced character wearing a red Santa hat with dark brown trim. The figure has a thick white beard covering the lower half of its face, black circular eyes, a small red nose, and a curved black mouth forming a smile. The background is a solid light blue color. The image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa face with red hat, white beard, and smiling expression on solid light blue background.

Metadata Only Entities

  • Jinny Davis
  • JinnyD
  • EPaint
  • AIM
  • Seasonal
  • Holiday
  • Winter
  • Graphic Arts
  • Top Pick
  • FD

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2002-2003
  • provenance source-name: AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa pixel art smile
  • red hat white beard blue background
  • 8-bit Santa icon
  • smiling Santa face pixelated

Objects

  • Santa hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about upload date, author name, and collection context but is not authoritative for visual facts.

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • Santa Claus figure

Wordwall

  • red hat
  • white beard
  • black eyes
  • red nose
  • smiling mouth
  • light blue background
  • pixelated art
  • round face
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Full source records (1)

AOL File Library AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons (internet-archive-aol-file-library-member-created-buddy-icons)

Kind
local-directory
Era
2002-2003 AOL Member-Created Library
Type
exact ZIP64 range extraction of the named AIM Member-Created Buddy Icons library with paired AOL info.txt metadata
Category
24BIT_ Ho Ho Ho
Title
Ho Ho Ho
Alt
Author: Jinny Davis; Uploaded By: JinnyD; Date: 11/15/2002; Keywords: Davis, JinnyD, EPaint, AIM, Seasonal, Santa, Character, Holiday, Winter, AIM, Icon, WWW, Webart, Graphic Arts, Top Pick, FD; Download Count: 345; A smiling Santa face. May also be used in E-mail or as a small web graphic.
Archive entry
24BIT_ Ho Ho Ho/hohoho1.jpg
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Rights
member-created artwork under item-specific uploader distribution notices; research/reference only by default
Slice
AOL-hosted member artwork for personal AIM identity, including holidays, flowers, animals, fantasy, flags, places, food, and expressive graphics

Original: https://archive.org/download/aolfile-12000/12000.zip#24BIT_%20Ho%20Ho%20Ho%2Fhohoho1.jpg Download: https://archive.org/download/aolfile-12000/12000.zip#24BIT_%20Ho%20Ho%20Ho%2Fhohoho1.jpg Page: https://archive.org/details/aolfile-12000