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Pixelated red Santa icon with white text 'santa is on his way' over light blue background, alternating between solid and pixelated cityscape border.

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Pixelated red Santa icon with white text 'santa is on his way' over light blue background, alternating between solid and pixelated cityscape border.

Pixelated red Santa icon with white text 'santa is on his way' over light blue background, alternating between solid and pixelated cityscape border. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • icon alternates between solid and outlined styles
  • cityscape border alternates between full and partial pixelated states

Animation Summary

The icon alternates between solid red Santa and white-outlined Santa styles, with the cityscape border alternating between full and partial pixelated states.

Composition

  • stacked text layout
  • central icon placement
  • horizontal cityscape divider

Dense Caption

Red Santa icon with white outline appears above black text reading 'santa', followed by stacked black text 'is', 'on', 'his'. Below this, the word 'way' in black text sits atop a red pixelated cityscape border. The top-left and top-right icons show solid red Santa icons; the bottom-left and bottom-right icons display Santa with white outline pixels. All four panels share identical text layout but differ in Santa's icon style (solid vs. outlined) and cityscape border detail.

Description

Pixelated red Santa icon with white text 'santa is on his way' over light blue background, alternating between solid and pixelated cityscape border.

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
  • 200711081313071277258211

Named Entities

  • Santa Claus

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • santa is on his way
  • pixelated santa holiday icon
  • red cityscape text icon
  • animated santa buddy icon

Visible Text

  • santa
  • is
  • on
  • his
  • way

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Claus icon

Wordwall

  • santa
  • is on his way
  • red pixelated cityscape
  • light blue background
  • black text
  • white outline
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711081313071277258211
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/4933c7a6e9138f68bb83ef0f8657939faf353c28cf2417329e614d5fba4d7c3a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
4933c7a6e9138f68
SHA-256
4933c7a6e9138f68bb83ef0f8657939faf353c28cf2417329e614d5fba4d7c3a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095978

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Pixelated red Santa icon with white text 'santa is on his way' over light blue background, alternating between solid and pixelated cityscape border.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,192 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 746

Review tags

  • icon style alternation (action, 0.80)
  • static display (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cityscape border (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • santa claus icon (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • static display
  • icon style alternation

Animation

  • icon alternates between solid and outlined styles
  • cityscape border alternates between full and partial pixelated states

Animation Summary

The icon alternates between solid red Santa and white-outlined Santa styles, with the cityscape border alternating between full and partial pixelated states.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • stacked text layout
  • central icon placement
  • horizontal cityscape divider

Dense Caption

Red Santa icon with white outline appears above black text reading 'santa', followed by stacked black text 'is', 'on', 'his'. Below this, the word 'way' in black text sits atop a red pixelated cityscape border. The top-left and top-right icons show solid red Santa icons; the bottom-left and bottom-right icons display Santa with white outline pixels. All four panels share identical text layout but differ in Santa's icon style (solid vs. outlined) and cityscape border detail.

Description

Pixelated red Santa icon with white text 'santa is on his way' over light blue background, alternating between solid and pixelated cityscape border.

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
  • 200711081313071277258211

Mood

  • festive
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Santa Claus

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • santa is on his way
  • pixelated santa holiday icon
  • red cityscape text icon
  • animated santa buddy icon

Objects

  • cityscape border

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • Santa Claus icon

Visible Text

  • santa
  • is
  • on
  • his
  • way

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa Claus icon

Wordwall

  • santa
  • is on his way
  • red pixelated cityscape
  • light blue background
  • black text
  • white outline
  • pixelated
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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
200711081313071277258211
Archive entry
200711081313071277258211.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711081313071277258211.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711081313071277258211.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016