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Red background with green star shapes and black text reading "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in four quadrants.

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Red background with green star shapes and black text reading "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in four quadrants.

Red background with green star shapes and black text reading "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • repeated text sections
  • star decorations

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background patterned with small brown diamond shapes. Four identical sections contain the text "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in bold, blocky, pixelated black letters; each section is positioned in one of the four quadrants (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). Green star-shaped pixels are scattered across the red background and partially overlap with the text. The image has a static appearance with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with green star shapes and black text reading "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in four quadrants.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712231104062019401657

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas red green stars
  • pixel art merry christmas text
  • four quadrant holiday icon
  • red background green star text

Visible Text

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wordwall

  • red background
  • green stars
  • black text
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS!
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated letters
  • brown diamond pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712231104062019401657
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
3a0ae82167578824
SHA-256
3a0ae82167578824c0c8542ae3a82c51e835d7522f8df8d92c9934d766b62c9e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080091

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with green star shapes and black text reading "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,028 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 643

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • repeated text sections
  • star decorations

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background patterned with small brown diamond shapes. Four identical sections contain the text "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in bold, blocky, pixelated black letters; each section is positioned in one of the four quadrants (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). Green star-shaped pixels are scattered across the red background and partially overlap with the text. The image has a static appearance with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with green star shapes and black text reading "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" in four quadrants.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712231104062019401657

Mood

  • festive
  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas red green stars
  • pixel art merry christmas text
  • four quadrant holiday icon
  • red background green star text

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wordwall

  • red background
  • green stars
  • black text
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS!
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated letters
  • brown diamond pattern
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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
200712231104062019401657
Archive entry
200712231104062019401657.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712231104062019401657.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712231104062019401657.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016