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Pixelated Santa Claus image with red background and green text reading 'Merry Christmas dudes :)'.

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Pixelated Santa Claus image with red background and green text reading 'Merry Christmas dudes :)'.

Pixelated Santa Claus image with red background and green text reading 'Merry Christmas dudes :)'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image throughout all observations.

Composition

  • left: Santa portrait
  • right: solid red background with text

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated depiction of Santa Claus on the left side, showing his white beard, red hat, and red clothing. The right portion has a solid bright red background. Green pixelated text appears in three sections: 'Merry' at top-right, 'Christmas' at bottom-left, and 'dudes :)' at bottom-right. All text uses blocky 8-bit style characters. Santa's expression is smiling with closed eyes. The image has low-resolution digital rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa Claus image with red background and green text reading 'Merry Christmas dudes :)'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712061309441417953742

Named Entities

  • Santa Claus

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Claus pixel art
  • Merry Christmas dudes
  • red background green text
  • 8-bit Santa icon
  • Christmas holiday icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image.

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • dudes :)

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • pixelated
  • red background
  • green text
  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • dudes :)
  • smiling face
  • closed eyes
  • white beard
  • red hat
  • red clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712061309441417953742
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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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/03/03d23dd5592234c142fa02ce2778e279738109ebfbc3e2f819261d8512a83c33.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
03d23dd5592234c1
SHA-256
03d23dd5592234c142fa02ce2778e279738109ebfbc3e2f819261d8512a83c33
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 23:40 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000067

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001248

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.277559

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated Santa Claus image with red background and green text reading 'Merry Christmas dudes :)'.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:37 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,609 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 568

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • santa claus (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image throughout all observations.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • left: Santa portrait
  • right: solid red background with text

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated depiction of Santa Claus on the left side, showing his white beard, red hat, and red clothing. The right portion has a solid bright red background. Green pixelated text appears in three sections: 'Merry' at top-right, 'Christmas' at bottom-left, and 'dudes :)' at bottom-right. All text uses blocky 8-bit style characters. Santa's expression is smiling with closed eyes. The image has low-resolution digital rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated Santa Claus image with red background and green text reading 'Merry Christmas dudes :)'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712061309441417953742

Mood

  • festive
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • Santa Claus

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa Claus pixel art
  • Merry Christmas dudes
  • red background green text
  • 8-bit Santa icon
  • Christmas holiday icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static image.

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • Santa Claus

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • dudes :)

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • pixelated
  • red background
  • green text
  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • dudes :)
  • smiling face
  • closed eyes
  • white beard
  • red hat
  • red clothing
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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
200712061309441417953742
Archive entry
200712061309441417953742.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712061309441417953742.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712061309441417953742.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016