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Red square icon with four identical quadrants displaying 'Merry Christmas' text, green star decorations, and brown border accents.

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Red square icon with four identical quadrants displaying 'Merry Christmas' text, green star decorations, and brown border accents.

Red square icon with four identical quadrants displaying 'Merry Christmas' text, green star decorations, and brown border accents. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical red squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each quadrant contains white pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas'. Green star-shaped pixels are scattered across the background: top-left corner (one), bottom-right corner (one), left edge (two), right edge (three), and center horizontal line (four). Brown decorative border elements form a cross dividing the quadrants, with small brown diamond shapes at each intersection. The entire icon has a thin brown outer border.

Description

  • Red square icon with four identical quadrants displaying 'Merry Christmas' text, green star decorations, and brown border accents.

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
  • 200712220733271852574002

Named Entities

  • Merry Christmas

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • red green brown holiday icon
  • four quadrant merry christmas
  • pixelated merry christmas text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Visually Supported Entities

  • Merry Christmas text

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text
  • 'Merry Christmas'
  • green stars
  • brown borders
  • pixelated font
  • four identical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712220733271852574002
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
726 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/57c0583fff564720ab4e33aa5da7f6499cdfb1b51b1918ec685908eb754b4f73.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
57c0583fff564720
SHA-256
57c0583fff564720ab4e33aa5da7f6499cdfb1b51b1918ec685908eb754b4f73
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073600

OpenAI category scores

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Red square icon with four identical quadrants displaying 'Merry Christmas' text, green star decorations, and brown border accents.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:41 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,369 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 664

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • white
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical red squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each quadrant contains white pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas'. Green star-shaped pixels are scattered across the background: top-left corner (one), bottom-right corner (one), left edge (two), right edge (three), and center horizontal line (four). Brown decorative border elements form a cross dividing the quadrants, with small brown diamond shapes at each intersection. The entire icon has a thin brown outer border.

Description

  • Red square icon with four identical quadrants displaying 'Merry Christmas' text, green star decorations, and brown border accents.

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
  • 200712220733271852574002

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • Merry Christmas

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • red green brown holiday icon
  • four quadrant merry christmas
  • pixelated merry christmas text

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Visually Supported Entities

  • Merry Christmas text

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text
  • 'Merry Christmas'
  • green stars
  • brown borders
  • pixelated font
  • four identical sections
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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
200712220733271852574002
Archive entry
200712220733271852574002.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712220733271852574002.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712220733271852574002.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016