Pixel art snowman with top hat and candy cane holding 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text against light blue background with stars and holly.

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Pixel art snowman with top hat and candy cane holding 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text against light blue background with stars and holly.

Pixel art snowman with top hat and candy cane holding 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text against light blue background with stars and holly. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX CoolBudd…

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Animation

  • static/no motion

Animation Summary

Static single-frame pixel art image showing a festive snowman holding a candy cane with 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text below, set against light blue background with stars and holly.

Composition

  • central snowman
  • text below subject
  • stars and holly in corners

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image featuring a snowman as the central subject. The snowman has a gray body, black button eyes, an orange carrot nose, and a smiling mouth made of small black dots. It wears a black top hat with red band and brown twig arms. A red-and-white striped candy cane is held in its right arm. Below the snowman, bold pixelated text reads 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' in alternating red and white letters outlined in black. The background is light blue with two star-like shapes (one white, one blue) and a green holly sprig with red berries in the top-right corner. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on the snowman's body and background. All elements are contained within a square frame with no border or additional context.

Description

  • Pixel art snowman with top hat and candy cane holding 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text against light blue background with stars and holly.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"snowman character","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"standard snowman design with top hat and candy cane"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Christmas theme
  • holiday icon
  • buddy icon format

Mood

  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art snowman candy cane merry christmas icon
  • 8-bit festive snowman with top hat and text

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit holiday-themed cartoon art

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest Christmas/holiday context with 'ico_xmas05' naming convention, likely from MyOldIcons collection of AOL buddy icons.

Visible Text

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christmas holiday imagery

Wordwall

  • pixel art snowman
  • gray snowman body
  • black button eyes
  • orange carrot nose
  • smiling mouth dots
  • black top hat red band
  • brown twig arms
  • red white striped candy cane
  • light blue background
  • white star shape
  • blue star shape
  • green holly sprig
  • red berries
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS text
  • alternating red white letters
  • black outline text
  • 8-bit style rendering
  • visible dithering
  • square frame icon
  • static single-frame image

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
ico_xmas05
Category
icon / christmas / ico xmas05
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:04 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / holidays / christmas
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/16/165a613d191863cf08b8d4a9add48dac936985c59a8fe4de3a6d629f5b133991.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
165a613d191863cf
SHA-256
165a613d191863cf08b8d4a9add48dac936985c59a8fe4de3a6d629f5b133991
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 05:56 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076766

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923234onnx/unsafe0.076766onnx/nsfw0.042053onnx/nsfl0.034713
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 18:31 UTC
Run
26
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixel art snowman with top hat and candy cane holding 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text against light blue background with stars and holly.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 18:31 UTC
Run
26
Version
v3
Elapsed
11,747 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,880, response 987

Review tags

  • merry christmas text (text, 0.98)
  • pixel art (style, 0.97)
  • light blue background (color, 0.96)
  • snowman (subject, 0.95)
  • 8 bit rendering (style, 0.94)
  • top hat (prop, 0.93)
  • candy cane (object, 0.92)
  • holy sprig (object, 0.85)
  • star shapes (symbol, 0.82)

Actions

  • holding candy cane

Animation

  • static/no motion

Animation Summary

Static single-frame pixel art image showing a festive snowman holding a candy cane with 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text below, set against light blue background with stars and holly.

Colors

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

Composition

  • central snowman
  • text below subject
  • stars and holly in corners

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image featuring a snowman as the central subject. The snowman has a gray body, black button eyes, an orange carrot nose, and a smiling mouth made of small black dots. It wears a black top hat with red band and brown twig arms. A red-and-white striped candy cane is held in its right arm. Below the snowman, bold pixelated text reads 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' in alternating red and white letters outlined in black. The background is light blue with two star-like shapes (one white, one blue) and a green holly sprig with red berries in the top-right corner. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on the snowman's body and background. All elements are contained within a square frame with no border or additional context.

Description

  • Pixel art snowman with top hat and candy cane holding 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' text against light blue background with stars and holly.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"snowman character","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"standard snowman design with top hat and candy cane"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • Christmas theme
  • holiday icon
  • buddy icon format

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful
  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art snowman candy cane merry christmas icon
  • 8-bit festive snowman with top hat and text

Objects

  • candy cane
  • star shapes
  • holly sprig with berries

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit holiday-themed cartoon art

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest Christmas/holiday context with 'ico_xmas05' naming convention, likely from MyOldIcons collection of AOL buddy icons.

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • snowman
  • holly sprig

Visible Text

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christmas holiday imagery

Wordwall

  • pixel art snowman
  • gray snowman body
  • black button eyes
  • orange carrot nose
  • smiling mouth dots
  • black top hat red band
  • brown twig arms
  • red white striped candy cane
  • light blue background
  • white star shape
  • blue star shape
  • green holly sprig
  • red berries
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS text
  • alternating red white letters
  • black outline text
  • 8-bit style rendering
  • visible dithering
  • square frame icon
  • static single-frame image
Raw JSON
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  "denseCaption": "Static pixel art image featuring a snowman as the central subject. The snowman has a gray body, black button eyes, an orange carrot nose, and a smiling mouth made of small black dots. It wears a black top hat with red band and brown twig arms. A red-and-white striped candy cane is held in its right arm. Below the snowman, bold pixelated text reads \u0027MERRY CHRISTMAS\u0027 in alternating red and white letters outlined in black. The background is light blue with two star-like shapes (one white, one blue) and a green holly sprig with red berries in the top-right corner. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on the snowman\u0027s body and background. All elements are contained within a square frame with no border or additional context.",
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    "black button eyes",
    "orange carrot nose",
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  ],
  "animation": [
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  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
    "non-authoritative source hints suggest Christmas/holiday context with \u0027ico_xmas05\u0027 naming convention, likely from MyOldIcons collection of AOL buddy icons."
  ],
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  "fandoms": [],
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  "needsManualReview": false,
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    },
    {
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      "evidence": "green holly with red berries in top-right corner"
    },
    {
      "tag": "star shapes",
      "category": "symbol",
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      "evidence": "two star-like pixel patterns on background"
    },
    {
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Full source records (2)

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / christmas / ico xmas05
Alt
ico_xmas05
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:04 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / holidays / christmas
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1103755074_1132614892.gif | tophiannan Meet me under the mistle toe | animated | myoldicons id 203466
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata