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Red background with green stars and brown lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections

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Red background with green stars and brown lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections

Red background with green stars and brown lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes detected

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Red background with brown grid lines forming four quadrants. Green star shapes scattered across the background. Black pixelated text "Merry Christmas! 08" appears in each quadrant. The text is horizontally centered in each quadrant. The text has a slight pixelated distortion effect. The green stars are small, four-pointed shapes. The grid lines are thin and brown. The background is solid red. The text "Merry Christmas! 08" is repeated four times in the image. The text is in a bold, pixelated font. The text is black. The stars are green. The grid lines are brown. The background is red. The text is repeated four times. The text is in the center of each quadrant. The text is in the same position in each quadrant. The text is the same in each quadrant. The text is in the same font in each quadrant. The text is in the same size in each quadrant. The text is in the same color in each quadrant. The text is in the same style in each quadrant. The text is in the same orientation in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the grid lines in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the stars in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the background in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other text in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other stars in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other grid lines in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other background in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other elements in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other sections in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other parts in each quadrant.

Description

  • Red background with green stars and brown lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections

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: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas 08
  • merry christmas 08 text
  • merry christmas 08 red background
  • merry christmas 08 green stars
  • merry christmas 08 brown lines
  • merry christmas 08 pixelated font
  • merry christmas 08 four quadrants
  • merry christmas 08 repeated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no preprocessed content detected
  • quarantined description: Red background with green stars and brown grid lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: same position relative to other grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: same position relative to grid lines
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  • quarantined retrieval: merry christmas 08 brown grid lines

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas! 08

Wordwall

  • red background
  • green stars
  • brown lines
  • "Merry Christmas! 08" text
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants
  • repeated text
  • small four-pointed stars
  • thin brown lines
  • solid red background
  • black text
  • green stars scattered
  • text horizontally centered
  • text in each quadrant
  • text distortion effect
  • bold font
  • same text in all quadrants
  • same font in all quadrants
  • same size in all quadrants
  • same color in all quadrants
  • same style in all quadrants
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  • same position relative to lines
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  • same position relative to other lines
  • same position relative to other background
  • same position relative to other elements
  • same position relative to other sections
  • same position relative to other parts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812161414321206187590
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4dd51537a51a1b86ebe1de858b010e84f3be7b5dad7925d7663ab3d1f483965b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
4dd51537a51a1b86
SHA-256
4dd51537a51a1b86ebe1de858b010e84f3be7b5dad7925d7663ab3d1f483965b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086660

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with green stars and brown lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,047 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 1,037

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes detected

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Red background with brown grid lines forming four quadrants. Green star shapes scattered across the background. Black pixelated text "Merry Christmas! 08" appears in each quadrant. The text is horizontally centered in each quadrant. The text has a slight pixelated distortion effect. The green stars are small, four-pointed shapes. The grid lines are thin and brown. The background is solid red. The text "Merry Christmas! 08" is repeated four times in the image. The text is in a bold, pixelated font. The text is black. The stars are green. The grid lines are brown. The background is red. The text is repeated four times. The text is in the center of each quadrant. The text is in the same position in each quadrant. The text is the same in each quadrant. The text is in the same font in each quadrant. The text is in the same size in each quadrant. The text is in the same color in each quadrant. The text is in the same style in each quadrant. The text is in the same orientation in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the grid lines in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the stars in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the background in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other text in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other stars in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other grid lines in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other background in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other elements in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other sections in each quadrant. The text is in the same position relative to the other parts in each quadrant.

Description

  • Red background with green stars and brown lines, displaying "Merry Christmas! 08" text in black pixelated font across four repeated sections

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: humor

Mood

  • festive

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  • merry christmas 08 brown lines
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Preprocessing Notes

  • no preprocessed content detected
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  • quarantined wordwall: same position relative to other grid lines
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Style

  • pixelated
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Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas! 08

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  • same position relative to lines
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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
200812161414321206187590
Archive entry
200812161414321206187590.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#200812161414321206187590.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812161414321206187590.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016