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Green-skinned alien with large white eyes wears a green elf hat and purple outfit, with text overlays changing across frames.

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Green-skinned alien with large white eyes wears a green elf hat and purple outfit, with text overlays changing across frames.

Green-skinned alien with large white eyes wears a green elf hat and purple outfit, with text overlays changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from "Merry Christmas" to "Girls awesome in an elf suit" while the alien remains static.

Composition

  • central subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Green-skinned alien with large white eyes and pointed ears wears a green elf hat with white trim and a purple outfit. The background is purple with faint white patterns. In the top-right frame, black text with white outline reads "Merry Christmas". In the bottom-left frame, black text with white outline reads "Girls awesome in an elf suit". The alien's expression is neutral with a small red mouth. The image is pixelated with a retro digital style.

Description

  • Green-skinned alien with large white eyes wears a green elf hat and purple outfit, with text overlays changing across frames.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810101922451842997454

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green alien elf hat
  • Merry Christmas text
  • Girls awesome in an elf suit
  • pixelated holiday icon
  • elf hat alien
  • purple background alien
  • retro digital text
  • festive alien icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • text in top-right frame is partially cut off

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas
  • Girls awesome in an elf suit

Wordwall

  • green-skinned alien
  • large white eyes
  • pointed ears
  • green elf hat
  • white trim
  • purple outfit
  • purple background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • Girls awesome in an elf suit text
  • small red mouth
  • pixelated
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810101922451842997454
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3fc55f41819ec4256726dcbef1b9323cef6e87a6ff5f8285f40fe59a2100da40.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
3fc55f41819ec425
SHA-256
3fc55f41819ec4256726dcbef1b9323cef6e87a6ff5f8285f40fe59a2100da40
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087046

OpenAI category scores

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Green-skinned alien with large white eyes wears a green elf hat and purple outfit, with text overlays changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,361 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 831

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • alien (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from "Merry Christmas" to "Girls awesome in an elf suit" while the alien remains static.

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • purple
  • red

Composition

  • central subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Green-skinned alien with large white eyes and pointed ears wears a green elf hat with white trim and a purple outfit. The background is purple with faint white patterns. In the top-right frame, black text with white outline reads "Merry Christmas". In the bottom-left frame, black text with white outline reads "Girls awesome in an elf suit". The alien's expression is neutral with a small red mouth. The image is pixelated with a retro digital style.

Description

  • Green-skinned alien with large white eyes wears a green elf hat and purple outfit, with text overlays changing across frames.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810101922451842997454

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Merry Christmas text
  • Girls awesome in an elf suit
  • pixelated holiday icon
  • elf hat alien
  • purple background alien
  • retro digital text
  • festive alien icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • text in top-right frame is partially cut off

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • alien

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas
  • Girls awesome in an elf suit

Wordwall

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  • large white eyes
  • pointed ears
  • green elf hat
  • white trim
  • purple outfit
  • purple background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • Girls awesome in an elf suit text
  • small red mouth
  • pixelated
  • retro digital style
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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
200810101922451842997454
Archive entry
200810101922451842997454.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810101922451842997454.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810101922451842997454.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016