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Black background with red star and diamond border, white text "Merry Christmas <3" in four quadrants.

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Black background with red star and diamond border, white text "Merry Christmas <3" in four quadrants.

Black background with red star and diamond border, white text "Merry Christmas <3" in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • repeating border elements
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants display the phrase "Merry Christmas <3" in light gray pixelated font on a black background. Each quadrant is bordered by a repeating pattern of small red stars and dark red diamonds. The top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants each contain the same text layout with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Black background with red star and diamond border, white text "Merry Christmas <3" in four quadrants.

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
  • 200812240941231087926007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Merry Christmas <3
  • red star border
  • pixel art holiday icon
  • four quadrant text icon

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas <3

Wordwall

  • Merry Christmas
  • <3
  • red stars
  • diamond border
  • black background
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812240941231087926007
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d90e722df898b58cbf377f962943900c62541585f4228fb42e271ee24930c8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
6d90e722df898b58
SHA-256
6d90e722df898b58cbf377f962943900c62541585f4228fb42e271ee24930c8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087201

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with red star and diamond border, white text "Merry Christmas <3" in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,307 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • light gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • repeating border elements
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants display the phrase "Merry Christmas <3" in light gray pixelated font on a black background. Each quadrant is bordered by a repeating pattern of small red stars and dark red diamonds. The top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants each contain the same text layout with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Black background with red star and diamond border, white text "Merry Christmas <3" in four quadrants.

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
  • 200812240941231087926007

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Merry Christmas <3
  • red star border
  • pixel art holiday icon
  • four quadrant text icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas <3

Wordwall

  • Merry Christmas
  • <3
  • red stars
  • diamond border
  • black background
  • 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
200812240941231087926007
Archive entry
200812240941231087926007.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812240941231087926007.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812240941231087926007.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016