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Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'

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Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'

Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes: 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'
  • 'ho' text color shifts from red to green
  • all other elements static

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change : 'ho' appears in red then green, followed by 'MERRY' and 'XMAS' in matching colors

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated Santa Claus figure wears red coat with white fur trim and matching hat, has pink cheeks, white beard, and black eyes. Left hand holds dark green mitt; right arm waves in all frames. Text overlays change: top-left frame shows 'ho' in red on black background, top-right shows 'ho' in green on black background, bottom-left shows 'MERRY' in red on black background, bottom-right shows 'XMAS' in green on black background. All four frames share identical Santa pose and background.

Description

  • Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081208162214219047537
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Santa Claus

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa waving with mitt
  • text changes from ho to merry xmas
  • pixelated Santa holiday text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS' across four frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change across four frames: 'ho' appears in red then green, followed by 'MERRY' and 'XMAS' in matching colors.

Visible Text

  • ho
  • MERRY
  • XMAS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Claus figure

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • red coat
  • white trim
  • green mitt
  • pink cheeks
  • white beard
  • black eyes
  • text changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081208162214219047537
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45db34447fef969d45015cdde552341ee4054d09c7a9d0e09e7eeba1e7be0293.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
45db34447fef969d
SHA-256
45db34447fef969d45015cdde552341ee4054d09c7a9d0e09e7eeba1e7be0293
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.129512

OpenAI category scores

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Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,088 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 724

Review tags

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  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • dark green mitt (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • santa claus figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving
  • holding

Animation

  • text changes: 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'
  • 'ho' text color shifts from red to green
  • all other elements static

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change : 'ho' appears in red then green, followed by 'MERRY' and 'XMAS' in matching colors

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • green
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated Santa Claus figure wears red coat with white fur trim and matching hat, has pink cheeks, white beard, and black eyes. Left hand holds dark green mitt; right arm waves in all frames. Text overlays change: top-left frame shows 'ho' in red on black background, top-right shows 'ho' in green on black background, bottom-left shows 'MERRY' in red on black background, bottom-right shows 'XMAS' in green on black background. All four frames share identical Santa pose and background.

Description

  • Santa Claus figure in red suit with white trim waves while holding a dark green mitt, text changes from 'ho' to 'MERRY XMAS'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081208162214219047537
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • Santa Claus

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa waving with mitt
  • text changes from ho to merry xmas
  • pixelated Santa holiday text

Objects

  • dark green mitt

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change across four frames: 'ho' appears in red then green, followed by 'MERRY' and 'XMAS' in matching colors.

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • Santa Claus figure

Visible Text

  • ho
  • MERRY
  • XMAS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Claus figure

Wordwall

  • Santa Claus
  • red coat
  • white trim
  • green mitt
  • pink cheeks
  • white beard
  • black eyes
  • text changes
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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
20081208162214219047537
Archive entry
20081208162214219047537.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#20081208162214219047537.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081208162214219047537.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016