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Blue background with repeated 'Merry Christmas' text and white star animations.

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Blue background with repeated 'Merry Christmas' text and white star animations.

Blue background with repeated 'Merry Christmas' text and white star animations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • repeated text and star elements

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Six instances of black pixelated text reading "Merry Christmas" arranged in two rows of three. White pixelated stars appear at multiple positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, and bottom-right. Each star has a vertical trail of white dots extending downward from it. All text and star elements are static; no visible animation changes occur across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'Merry Christmas' text and white star animations.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712101445041673189941

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • blue background star animation
  • pixelated merry christmas text
  • white dot trail stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • pixelated font
  • white stars
  • star dot trails
  • six text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712101445041673189941
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
619 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
4fa963c5b75a1e41
SHA-256
4fa963c5b75a1e418781953c09ab6a4b453d82e397472a34f780d42d110be9d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090675

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated 'Merry Christmas' text and white star animations.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:57 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,172, response 643

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • dot trails (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • repeated text and star elements

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Six instances of black pixelated text reading "Merry Christmas" arranged in two rows of three. White pixelated stars appear at multiple positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, and bottom-right. Each star has a vertical trail of white dots extending downward from it. All text and star elements are static; no visible animation changes occur across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'Merry Christmas' text and white star animations.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712101445041673189941

Mood

  • festive
  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • blue background star animation
  • pixelated merry christmas text
  • white dot trail stars

Objects

  • stars
  • dot trails

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • pixelated font
  • white stars
  • star dot trails
  • six text instances
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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
200712101445041673189941
Archive entry
200712101445041673189941.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#200712101445041673189941.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712101445041673189941.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016