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Cyan background with repeated 'ITS SNOWING' text and vertical snowflake border, no visible animation changes.

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Cyan background with repeated 'ITS SNOWING' text and vertical snowflake border, no visible animation changes.

Cyan background with repeated 'ITS SNOWING' text and vertical snowflake border, no visible animation changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical snowflake border
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image displays a cyan background with four identical sections arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each section contains the text "ITS" above "SNOWING" in dark blue pixelated font. A vertical column of white snowflakes runs down the center, flanked by two additional columns of white snowflakes on either side. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Cyan background with repeated 'ITS SNOWING' text and vertical snowflake border, no visible animation changes.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090106144607378478668

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan snowflake text icon
  • ITS SNOWING pixel art
  • winter holiday buddy icon
  • static cyan background snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • ITS
  • SNOWING

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white snowflakes
  • ITS SNOWING text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090106144607378478668
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5e/5ed1fc38ee1f4bd3cd8e79a0cfade88c5105f26b1b4e57c1a41783a9c99d225f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
5ed1fc38ee1f4bd3
SHA-256
5ed1fc38ee1f4bd3cd8e79a0cfade88c5105f26b1b4e57c1a41783a9c99d225f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095525

OpenAI category scores

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Cyan background with repeated 'ITS SNOWING' text and vertical snowflake border, no visible animation changes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,396 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 611

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • wintery (mood, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • vertical snowflake border
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image displays a cyan background with four identical sections arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each section contains the text "ITS" above "SNOWING" in dark blue pixelated font. A vertical column of white snowflakes runs down the center, flanked by two additional columns of white snowflakes on either side. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Cyan background with repeated 'ITS SNOWING' text and vertical snowflake border, no visible animation changes.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090106144607378478668

Mood

  • festive
  • wintery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan snowflake text icon
  • ITS SNOWING pixel art
  • winter holiday buddy icon
  • static cyan background snowflakes

Objects

  • snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • ITS
  • SNOWING

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white snowflakes
  • ITS SNOWING text
  • pixelated 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
20090106144607378478668
Archive entry
20090106144607378478668.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090106144607378478668.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090106144607378478668.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016