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Black background with green vertical bar, red and green text, white snowflakes, and a central image of red ornaments on a branch.

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Black background with green vertical bar, red and green text, white snowflakes, and a central image of red ornaments on a branch.

Black background with green vertical bar, red and green text, white snowflakes, and a central image of red ornaments on a branch. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central image with text
  • symmetrical snowflake placement
  • text at top and left

Dense Caption

Black background with a single green vertical bar on the left. Red text 'can't' and green text 'wait' appear at the top. Four white snowflake icons are positioned around the central area. A rectangular image shows red spherical ornaments on a branch with blue text 'Christmas' overlaid on a black bar, and red text 'till' to the left of the image. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with green vertical bar, red and green text, white snowflakes, and a central image of red ornaments on a branch.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812231550321841152820

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowflakes 'can't wait' 'till Christmas'
  • red ornaments green bar 'can't wait' 'till Christmas'
  • pixelated 'can't wait till Christmas' snowflakes
  • green bar red text 'can't wait' 'till Christmas'

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • can't
  • wait
  • till
  • Christmas

Wordwall

  • green vertical bar
  • red 'can't' text
  • green 'wait' text
  • white snowflakes
  • red 'till' text
  • blue 'Christmas' text
  • red ornaments
  • branch
  • pixelated graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812231550321841152820
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4e/4eb43c8a30c84a11957858aa6293489a32b4c9f7db8850cffd6592c4f0679bfc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
4eb43c8a30c84a11
SHA-256
4eb43c8a30c84a11957858aa6293489a32b4c9f7db8850cffd6592c4f0679bfc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 00:30 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000492

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with green vertical bar, red and green text, white snowflakes, and a central image of red ornaments on a branch.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,241 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 856

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • anticipatory (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • branch (subject, 0.80)
  • ornaments (subject, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • red
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • central image with text
  • symmetrical snowflake placement
  • text at top and left

Dense Caption

Black background with a single green vertical bar on the left. Red text 'can't' and green text 'wait' appear at the top. Four white snowflake icons are positioned around the central area. A rectangular image shows red spherical ornaments on a branch with blue text 'Christmas' overlaid on a black bar, and red text 'till' to the left of the image. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with green vertical bar, red and green text, white snowflakes, and a central image of red ornaments on a branch.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812231550321841152820

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • festive
  • anticipatory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowflakes 'can't wait' 'till Christmas'
  • red ornaments green bar 'can't wait' 'till Christmas'
  • pixelated 'can't wait till Christmas' snowflakes
  • green bar red text 'can't wait' 'till Christmas'

Objects

  • snowflakes
  • ornaments
  • branch

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • snowflakes
  • ornaments
  • branch

Visible Text

  • can't
  • wait
  • till
  • Christmas

Wordwall

  • green vertical bar
  • red 'can't' text
  • green 'wait' text
  • white snowflakes
  • red 'till' text
  • blue 'Christmas' text
  • red ornaments
  • branch
  • pixelated graphics
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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
200812231550321841152820
Archive entry
200812231550321841152820.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812231550321841152820.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812231550321841152820.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016