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Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols

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Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols

Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Animation Summary

Four identical red squares with green borders and "Merry Christmas" text; top-right frame has heart symbol, bottom-right frame has plus sign at bottom-right corners.

Composition

  • centered text
  • corner symbols

Dense Caption

Four identical red squares with thin green borders arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square contains white pixelated text reading "Merry Christmas." Top-right frame shows a small solid green heart symbol at bottom-right corner; bottom-left frame has no corner symbol; bottom-right frame displays a small green plus sign at bottom-right corner. All squares share identical background, border style, and text layout. Text is rendered in blocky pixelated font with visible dithering. Corners of the grid have partial green lines extending from borders.

Description

  • Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols

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
  • 200712191805351302112837

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas icon
  • red square green border
  • heart plus sign animation
  • merry christmas

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected; consistent pixel dimensions across frames
  • quarantined description: Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols across four frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid merry christmas

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • red square
  • green border
  • white pixelated text
  • "Merry Christmas"
  • top-right heart symbol
  • bottom-right plus sign
  • arrangement
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712191805351302112837
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
965 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/58/588bec67947a27fc926433477eb2842dfc53f8592009040aa2bfd7bcc36e8b93.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
588bec67947a27fc
SHA-256
588bec67947a27fc926433477eb2842dfc53f8592009040aa2bfd7bcc36e8b93
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093947

OpenAI category scores

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Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:11 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,334 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 638

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static animation (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

Four identical red squares with green borders and "Merry Christmas" text; top-right frame has heart symbol, bottom-right frame has plus sign at bottom-right corners.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • corner symbols

Dense Caption

Four identical red squares with thin green borders arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square contains white pixelated text reading "Merry Christmas." Top-right frame shows a small solid green heart symbol at bottom-right corner; bottom-left frame has no corner symbol; bottom-right frame displays a small green plus sign at bottom-right corner. All squares share identical background, border style, and text layout. Text is rendered in blocky pixelated font with visible dithering. Corners of the grid have partial green lines extending from borders.

Description

  • Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols

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
  • 200712191805351302112837

Mood

  • festive
  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas icon
  • red square green border
  • heart plus sign animation
  • merry christmas

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected; consistent pixel dimensions across frames
  • quarantined description: Red square icon with green border displaying "Merry Christmas" text and changing corner symbols across four frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid merry christmas

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static animation

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • red square
  • green border
  • white pixelated text
  • "Merry Christmas"
  • top-right heart symbol
  • bottom-right plus sign
  • arrangement
  • blocky font
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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
200712191805351302112837
Archive entry
200712191805351302112837.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712191805351302112837.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712191805351302112837.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016