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Blue background with white dots, displaying four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Happy Winter" above "~Apple~" in black font.

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Blue background with white dots, displaying four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Happy Winter" above "~Apple~" in black font.

Blue background with white dots, displaying four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Happy Winter" above "~Apple~" in black font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations show identical static text blocks.

Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Blue background with white dot pattern. Four identical pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains "Happy Winter" in large black font above "~Apple~" in smaller black font. Text has slight pixelation and blurring. All four blocks are visually identical with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots, displaying four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Happy Winter" above "~Apple~" in black font.

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
  • 200811101424231000172070
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue dot background happy winter apple
  • pixelated happy winter apple text
  • blue dot background
  • text-based buddy icon happy winter apple

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue dot background

Visible Text

  • Happy Winter
  • ~Apple~

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dot pattern
  • pixelated text
  • Happy Winter
  • ~Apple~
  • identical blocks
  • black font
  • dot pattern background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811101424231000172070
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/431b9e12e40157e62f502bb7173e0c755c9207d57eb242c15715a00ab795607e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
431b9e12e40157e6
SHA-256
431b9e12e40157e62f502bb7173e0c755c9207d57eb242c15715a00ab795607e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086377

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with white dots, displaying four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Happy Winter" above "~Apple~" in black font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,086 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations show identical static text blocks.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Blue background with white dot pattern. Four identical pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains "Happy Winter" in large black font above "~Apple~" in smaller black font. Text has slight pixelation and blurring. All four blocks are visually identical with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots, displaying four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Happy Winter" above "~Apple~" in black font.

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
  • 200811101424231000172070
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue dot background happy winter apple
  • pixelated happy winter apple text
  • blue dot background
  • text-based buddy icon happy winter apple

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue dot background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Happy Winter
  • ~Apple~

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dot pattern
  • pixelated text
  • Happy Winter
  • ~Apple~
  • identical blocks
  • black font
  • dot pattern background
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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
200811101424231000172070
Archive entry
200811101424231000172070.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811101424231000172070.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811101424231000172070.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016