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Blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading 'winter love <3' in four positions.

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Blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading 'winter love <3' in four positions.

Blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading 'winter love <3' in four positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical text-snowflake groups
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • scattered snowflakes

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with multiple white pixelated snowflakes scattered across it. Four identical groups of text appear: each group contains the words "winter" on the first line, "love" on the second line, and ")<3" (a heart symbol) on the third line. The text is rendered in black, using a blocky, pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics. Snowflakes are positioned around each text group, with some overlapping or adjacent to the text elements.

Description

  • Blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading 'winter love <3' in four positions.

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
  • 2008121912245656387205

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • winter love snowflake icon
  • blue background pixelated text
  • four identical winter love groups
  • <3 heart symbol blue snowflakes

Visible Text

  • winter
  • love
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snowflakes
  • black text
  • winter love <3
  • pixelated font
  • four identical groups

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008121912245656387205
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
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/67f6729a428884143b7d66a08101cda1d7be61da64756cebecc5a460bb4138cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
67f6729a42888414
SHA-256
67f6729a428884143b7d66a08101cda1d7be61da64756cebecc5a460bb4138cf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086631

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading 'winter love <3' in four positions.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,844 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • festive (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical text-snowflake groups
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • scattered snowflakes

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with multiple white pixelated snowflakes scattered across it. Four identical groups of text appear: each group contains the words "winter" on the first line, "love" on the second line, and ")<3" (a heart symbol) on the third line. The text is rendered in black, using a blocky, pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics. Snowflakes are positioned around each text group, with some overlapping or adjacent to the text elements.

Description

  • Blue background with white snowflakes and black text reading 'winter love <3' in four positions.

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
  • 2008121912245656387205

Mood

  • cheerful
  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • winter love snowflake icon
  • blue background pixelated text
  • four identical winter love groups
  • <3 heart symbol blue snowflakes

Objects

  • snowflakes
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • repetitive layout

Subjects

  • snowflakes
  • text

Visible Text

  • winter
  • love
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snowflakes
  • black text
  • winter love <3
  • pixelated font
  • four identical groups
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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
2008121912245656387205
Archive entry
2008121912245656387205.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#2008121912245656387205.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008121912245656387205.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016