A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a Santa-like character with varying candy cane props and text bubbles, all set against a gray background.

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A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a Santa-like character with varying candy cane props and text bubbles, all set against a gray background.

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a Santa-like character with varying candy cane props and text bubbles, all set against a gray background. Animated 96×96 GIF AIM bu…

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Animation

  • candy cane position changes between frames
  • text bubble 'Ho' appears/disappears
  • red sparkles appear near candy canes

Animation Summary

A 11-frame pixel art animation showing a Santa character with varying candy cane props and 'Ho' text bubbles across frames, set against gray background with repeating '_Merry Christmas!' text below each frame.

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • repeating text below frames

Dense Caption

The image displays an animated contact sheet composed of 11 distinct frames arranged in a 4-column by 3-row grid. Each frame features a small pixelated character resembling Santa Claus wearing a red suit with white trim and a matching hat. The character has blue eyes, a yellow beard, and is seated or standing upright. In some frames, the character holds two candy canes forming a heart shape; in others, it holds single candy canes or no props at all. Text bubbles above the character display 'Ho' in several frames. Below each frame, the text '_Merry Christmas!' appears repeatedly across multiple rows. The background is solid gray with visible transparency artifacts around the character edges. Frame-to-frame changes include variations in candy cane positioning (single vs. heart-shaped), presence of 'Ho' bubbles, and occasional pixelated red sparkles near the candy canes. The animation sequence shows a cycle where the character alternates between holding single candy canes, forming a heart shape with two canes, and having no props while maintaining consistent facial features and posture.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a Santa-like character with varying candy cane props and text bubbles, all set against a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Santa Claus","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"red suit, white beard, hat"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • merry christmas theme
  • Santa character design
  • candy cane props

Named Entities

  • {"name":"Santa Claus","basis":"visible"}

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa pixel art candy cane heart
  • Merry Christmas text bubble animation
  • 4x3 contact sheet Santa frames
  • pixel art Ho text bubbles
  • candy cane heart shape animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 11 sampled frames from source animation
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frame order is left-to-right then top-to-bottom

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit holiday-themed cartoon character
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / merry christmas buddy icon

Visible Text

  • Ho
  • _Merry Christmas!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christmas holiday imagery

Wordwall

  • pixel art Santa character
  • red suit with white trim
  • white beard
  • blue eyes
  • Santa hat
  • candy cane heart shape
  • single candy cane
  • 'Ho' text bubble
  • '_Merry Christmas!' text
  • gray background
  • transparency artifacts
  • pixelated red sparkles
  • 4x3 contact sheet grid
  • 11 distinct frames
  • seated character pose
  • heart-shaped candy canes
  • text bubbles above head
  • repeating 'Merry Christmas!' text
  • candy cane fragments
  • frame-to-frame animation changes

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX BadassBuddy GIF Captures

Category
badass buddy icons / merry christmas buddy icon
Era
Early-2000s Mainstream Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 21:40 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
96×96 pixels
File size
11.5 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3f62835a87f4fbee951923c0081ed3409c7d933a9f4b7f75f49a2cb4c5a93dfa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
3f62835a87f4fbee
SHA-256
3f62835a87f4fbee951923c0081ed3409c7d933a9f4b7f75f49a2cb4c5a93dfa
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 09:46 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098304

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913812onnx/unsafe0.098304onnx/nsfw0.059501onnx/nsfl0.038803
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
8
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

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a Santa-like character with varying candy cane props and text bubbles, all set against a gray background.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 01:27 UTC
Run
8
Version
v3
Elapsed
27,851 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,942, response 2,316

Review tags

  • red suit white trim (clothing, 0.98)
  • merry christmas (text, 0.98)
  • blue eyes yellow beard (facial features, 0.97)
  • pixel art animation (style, 0.97)
  • 4x3 contact sheet (layout, 0.96)
  • santa claus (subject, 0.95)
  • gray background transparency (background, 0.93)
  • candy cane heart (object, 0.92)
  • ho text bubble (text, 0.85)

Actions

  • holding candy canes
  • forming heart shape with candy canes
  • text bubble appearing above head

Animation

  • candy cane position changes between frames
  • text bubble 'Ho' appears/disappears
  • red sparkles appear near candy canes

Animation Summary

A 11-frame pixel art animation showing a Santa character with varying candy cane props and 'Ho' text bubbles across frames, set against gray background with repeating '_Merry Christmas!' text below each frame.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • gray
  • yellow

Composition

  • 4x3 grid layout
  • character centered in each frame
  • repeating text below frames

Dense Caption

The image displays an animated contact sheet composed of 11 distinct frames arranged in a 4-column by 3-row grid. Each frame features a small pixelated character resembling Santa Claus wearing a red suit with white trim and a matching hat. The character has blue eyes, a yellow beard, and is seated or standing upright. In some frames, the character holds two candy canes forming a heart shape; in others, it holds single candy canes or no props at all. Text bubbles above the character display 'Ho' in several frames. Below each frame, the text '_Merry Christmas!' appears repeatedly across multiple rows. The background is solid gray with visible transparency artifacts around the character edges. Frame-to-frame changes include variations in candy cane positioning (single vs. heart-shaped), presence of 'Ho' bubbles, and occasional pixelated red sparkles near the candy canes. The animation sequence shows a cycle where the character alternates between holding single candy canes, forming a heart shape with two canes, and having no props while maintaining consistent facial features and posture.

Description

A 4x3 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a Santa-like character with varying candy cane props and text bubbles, all set against a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"Santa Claus","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"red suit, white beard, hat"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • merry christmas theme
  • Santa character design
  • candy cane props

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful
  • holiday-themed

Named Entities

  • {"name":"Santa Claus","basis":"visible"}

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa pixel art candy cane heart
  • Merry Christmas text bubble animation
  • 4x3 contact sheet Santa frames
  • pixel art Ho text bubbles
  • candy cane heart shape animation

Objects

  • candy canes
  • heart-shaped candy cane formation
  • red sparkles

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 11 sampled frames from source animation
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frame order is left-to-right then top-to-bottom

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit holiday-themed cartoon character
  • no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-badassbuddy-gifs | category: badass buddy icons / merry christmas buddy icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • retro digital style

Subjects

  • Santa-like pixel art character

Visible Text

  • Ho
  • _Merry Christmas!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christmas holiday imagery

Wordwall

  • pixel art Santa character
  • red suit with white trim
  • white beard
  • blue eyes
  • Santa hat
  • candy cane heart shape
  • single candy cane
  • 'Ho' text bubble
  • '_Merry Christmas!' text
  • gray background
  • transparency artifacts
  • pixelated red sparkles
  • 4x3 contact sheet grid
  • 11 distinct frames
  • seated character pose
  • heart-shaped candy canes
  • text bubbles above head
  • repeating 'Merry Christmas!' text
  • candy cane fragments
  • frame-to-frame animation changes
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