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Blue background with repeated black text 'let it snow' and '<3' symbols, white pixelated dots scattered across the image.

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Blue background with repeated black text 'let it snow' and '<3' symbols, white pixelated dots scattered across the image.

Blue background with repeated black text 'let it snow' and '<3' symbols, white pixelated dots scattered across the image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • centered '<3' symbols
  • scattered dots

Dense Caption

The icon features a solid blue background. Overlaid are multiple rows of black text reading 'let it snow', each row containing three instances of this phrase separated by spaces. Below these rows, two '<3' symbols appear in black. White pixelated dots resembling falling snow are scattered across the entire image, with higher density near the center and lower density at the edges.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated black text 'let it snow' and '<3' symbols, white pixelated dots scattered across the image.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712111553071225821865

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background let it snow
  • let it snow text icon
  • <3 symbols blue background
  • pixelated dots let it snow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Visible Text

  • let it snow
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black text 'let it snow'
  • '<3' symbols
  • white pixelated dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712111553071225821865
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
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/6573150d51e7c011f0f70f72670cf8926a84bc74e398ebbf61042fce637ae745.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
6573150d51e7c011
SHA-256
6573150d51e7c011f0f70f72670cf8926a84bc74e398ebbf61042fce637ae745
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131901

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated black text 'let it snow' and '<3' symbols, white pixelated dots scattered across the image.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:14 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,018 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text
  • centered '<3' symbols
  • scattered dots

Dense Caption

The icon features a solid blue background. Overlaid are multiple rows of black text reading 'let it snow', each row containing three instances of this phrase separated by spaces. Below these rows, two '<3' symbols appear in black. White pixelated dots resembling falling snow are scattered across the entire image, with higher density near the center and lower density at the edges.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated black text 'let it snow' and '<3' symbols, white pixelated dots scattered across the image.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712111553071225821865

Mood

  • festive
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background let it snow
  • let it snow text icon
  • <3 symbols blue background
  • pixelated dots let it snow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • let it snow
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black text 'let it snow'
  • '<3' symbols
  • white pixelated dots
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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
200712111553071225821865
Archive entry
200712111553071225821865.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#200712111553071225821865.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712111553071225821865.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016