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A person wearing a red and white Santa hat and gray jacket with a brown strap, standing next to a white background with red text reading 'merry christmas'.

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A person wearing a red and white Santa hat and gray jacket with a brown strap, standing next to a white background with red text reading 'merry christmas'.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: person with outdoor background
  • right side: white background with text

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a red and white Santa hat with a white trim and black brim, a gray jacket with a visible brown strap across the chest, and dark hair. The background on the left side features a blurred outdoor scene with vertical structures and light blue sky. On the right side, there is a white background with red pixelated text reading 'merry' on the top line and 'christmas' on the bottom line. The text is in lowercase letters with a slightly distorted, blocky appearance. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated quality.

Description

A person wearing a red and white Santa hat and gray jacket with a brown strap, standing next to a white background with red text reading 'merry christmas'.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa hat merry christmas
  • gray jacket brown strap
  • pixelated red text
  • outdoor background white background
  • merry christmas text
  • low-resolution holiday image
  • person Santa hat
  • red white gray brown colors

Visible Text

  • merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • Santa hat
  • red and white
  • gray jacket
  • brown strap
  • outdoor background
  • white background
  • red text
  • merry
  • christmas
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text
  • lowercase
  • blurred
  • vertical structures
  • light blue sky
  • dark hair
  • person

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812181445471641465159
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812181445531443569080
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/4062996dbb755bcd2ac684c89c715bd04e39aa6a0d1edc148339e6c1442ec755.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
4062996dbb755bcd
SHA-256
4062996dbb755bcd2ac684c89c715bd04e39aa6a0d1edc148339e6c1442ec755
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093955

OpenAI category scores

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A person wearing a red and white Santa hat and gray jacket with a brown strap, standing next to a white background with red text reading 'merry christmas'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,909 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,190, response 794

Review tags

  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • brown strap (object, 0.80)
  • gray jacket (object, 0.80)
  • light blue sky (object, 0.80)
  • red text (object, 0.80)
  • santa hat (object, 0.80)
  • vertical structures (object, 0.80)
  • white background (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

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

Composition

  • left side: person with outdoor background
  • right side: white background with text

Dense Caption

The image shows a person wearing a red and white Santa hat with a white trim and black brim, a gray jacket with a visible brown strap across the chest, and dark hair. The background on the left side features a blurred outdoor scene with vertical structures and light blue sky. On the right side, there is a white background with red pixelated text reading 'merry' on the top line and 'christmas' on the bottom line. The text is in lowercase letters with a slightly distorted, blocky appearance. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated quality.

Description

A person wearing a red and white Santa hat and gray jacket with a brown strap, standing next to a white background with red text reading 'merry christmas'.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • festive
  • holiday

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  • pixelated red text
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  • merry christmas text
  • low-resolution holiday image
  • person Santa hat
  • red white gray brown colors

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  • gray jacket
  • brown strap
  • vertical structures
  • light blue sky
  • white background
  • red text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

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  • gray jacket
  • brown strap
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  • white background
  • red text
  • merry
  • christmas
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text
  • lowercase
  • blurred
  • vertical structures
  • light blue sky
  • dark hair
  • person
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Full source records (2)

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
200812181445471641465159
Archive entry
200812181445471641465159.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812181445471641465159.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812181445471641465159.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200812181445531443569080
Archive entry
200812181445531443569080.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812181445531443569080.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812181445531443569080.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016