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Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a , showing progressive animation frames with added details

Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a , showing progressive animation frames with added details. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 0: basic gingerbread man/snowman outline
  • frame 1: adding buttons/accessories to gingerbread man, snowman gains arms/nose/mouth
  • frame 2: final details on both characters

Animation Summary

  • Progressive animation showing gingerbread man gaining buttons and accents, snowman gaining arms/nose/mouth/scarf/hat

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • progressive detail addition

Dense Caption

Top row: leftmost gingerbread man has brown body, red nose, black eyes/mouth; middle gingerbread man adds purple button above green button; rightmost gingerbread man adds white circular accents on arms/legs and two green square accents on torso. Bottom row: leftmost snowman is outline with three circles; middle snowman gains brown twig arms, black dot buttons, orange carrot nose, and smiling mouth; rightmost snowman adds red knit hat and red scarf over the middle snowman's features.

Description

  • Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a , showing progressive animation frames with added details

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20081220065022712268861
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gingerbread man with green button
  • snowman with red scarf
  • holiday-themed pixel art icons
  • animated gingerbread man snowman set

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a 2x3 grid, showing progressive animation frames with added details.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Progressive animation showing gingerbread man gaining buttons and accents, snowman gaining arms/nose/mouth/scarf/hat across three frames.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Visually Supported Entities

  • gingerbread man
  • snowman

Wordwall

  • gingerbread man
  • snowman
  • brown body
  • red nose
  • black eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • purple button
  • green button
  • white circular accents
  • green square accents
  • outline snowman
  • twigs arms
  • carrot nose
  • scarf
  • hat

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081220065022712268861
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/64787e310a3cfa2aaa1627df83587327cdbf48250f72d7d002becf9317106960.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
64787e310a3cfa2a
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086460

OpenAI category scores

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Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a , showing progressive animation frames with added details

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,063 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 827

Review tags

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  • adding buttons (action, 0.80)
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  • carrot (object, 0.80)
  • circular accents (object, 0.80)
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  • scarf (object, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • gingerbread man (subject, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • adding buttons
  • adding accessories

Animation

  • frame 0: basic gingerbread man/snowman outline
  • frame 1: adding buttons/accessories to gingerbread man, snowman gains arms/nose/mouth
  • frame 2: final details on both characters

Animation Summary

  • Progressive animation showing gingerbread man gaining buttons and accents, snowman gaining arms/nose/mouth/scarf/hat

Colors

  • brown
  • red
  • black
  • purple
  • green
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • progressive detail addition

Dense Caption

Top row: leftmost gingerbread man has brown body, red nose, black eyes/mouth; middle gingerbread man adds purple button above green button; rightmost gingerbread man adds white circular accents on arms/legs and two green square accents on torso. Bottom row: leftmost snowman is outline with three circles; middle snowman gains brown twig arms, black dot buttons, orange carrot nose, and smiling mouth; rightmost snowman adds red knit hat and red scarf over the middle snowman's features.

Description

  • Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a , showing progressive animation frames with added details

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20081220065022712268861
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • cheerful
  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gingerbread man with green button
  • snowman with red scarf
  • holiday-themed pixel art icons
  • animated gingerbread man snowman set

Objects

  • buttons
  • scarf
  • hat
  • twigs
  • carrot
  • circular accents
  • square accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Three gingerbread men and three snowmen icons in a 2x3 grid, showing progressive animation frames with added details.
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  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoonish
  • simplified shapes

Subjects

  • gingerbread man
  • snowman

Visually Supported Entities

  • gingerbread man
  • snowman

Wordwall

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  • snowman
  • brown body
  • red nose
  • black eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • purple button
  • green button
  • white circular accents
  • green square accents
  • outline snowman
  • twigs arms
  • carrot nose
  • scarf
  • hat
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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
20081220065022712268861
Archive entry
20081220065022712268861.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081220065022712268861.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081220065022712268861.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016