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Pixelated blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" repeated twice, each followed by exclamation marks and smiley faces.

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Pixelated blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" repeated twice, each followed by exclamation marks and smiley faces.

Pixelated blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" repeated twice, each followed by exclamation marks and smiley faces. Animated 48×48 GI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical text blocks
  • snowflakes behind text
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated blue background with white snowflakes. Two identical text blocks are present: each reads "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" in black pixelated font, followed by ten exclamation marks and a sequence of smiley faces ":)" repeated five times. The snowflakes are positioned behind the text blocks. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" repeated twice, each followed by exclamation marks and smiley faces.

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 topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • christmas is coming snowflakes
  • pixelated holiday text
  • blue background smiley faces
  • exclamation marks snowflakes

Visible Text

  • CHRISTMAS IS COMING
  • !!!!!!!!!!
  • :) :) :) :) :)

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snowflakes
  • black text
  • CHRISTMAS IS COMING
  • exclamation marks
  • smiley faces
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081130084048132599702
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45a972f8f6f64ff9974334c5adb63d18f6075eaa9d53afa135f32da0a413e444.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
45a972f8f6f64ff9
SHA-256
45a972f8f6f64ff9974334c5adb63d18f6075eaa9d53afa135f32da0a413e444
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122833

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" repeated twice, each followed by exclamation marks and smiley faces.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,849 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 627

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • holiday themed (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • two identical text blocks
  • snowflakes behind text
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated blue background with white snowflakes. Two identical text blocks are present: each reads "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" in black pixelated font, followed by ten exclamation marks and a sequence of smiley faces ":)" repeated five times. The snowflakes are positioned behind the text blocks. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading "CHRISTMAS IS COMING" repeated twice, each followed by exclamation marks and smiley faces.

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 topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • christmas is coming snowflakes
  • pixelated holiday text
  • blue background smiley faces
  • exclamation marks snowflakes

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • holiday-themed

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • CHRISTMAS IS COMING
  • !!!!!!!!!!
  • :) :) :) :) :)

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snowflakes
  • black text
  • CHRISTMAS IS COMING
  • exclamation marks
  • smiley faces
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • static image
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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
20081130084048132599702
Archive entry
20081130084048132599702.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081130084048132599702.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081130084048132599702.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016