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Red pixelated text 'Merry Christmas' overlaid on white snowflake icons against a light blue background.

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Red pixelated text 'Merry Christmas' overlaid on white snowflake icons against a light blue background.

Red pixelated text 'Merry Christmas' overlaid on white snowflake icons against a light blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • snowflake clarity varies between frames

Animation Summary

  • The snowflake clarity varies between frames while text and background remain static.

Composition

  • four identical
  • text above snowflakes

Dense Caption

Four identical grid layouts of red pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas' positioned above white snowflake shapes. The snowflakes have six arms with varying branch patterns and are set against a solid light blue background. Each layout shows the same arrangement but with slight variations in snowflake clarity across different frames.

Description

  • Red pixelated text 'Merry Christmas' overlaid on white snowflake icons against a light blue background.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712091346481458882019

Mood

  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated merry christmas
  • snowflakes light blue background
  • pixelated holiday text
  • festive digital art

Objects

  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • Christmas

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • 'Merry Christmas'
  • white snowflakes
  • light blue background
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712091346481458882019
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
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/730314444d0a36aa21959a5a6182f6e2bf75d881499c6ca3e3be91857898fd7a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
730314444d0a36aa
SHA-256
730314444d0a36aa21959a5a6182f6e2bf75d881499c6ca3e3be91857898fd7a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077867

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text 'Merry Christmas' overlaid on white snowflake icons against a light blue background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,605 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 620

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • holiday (mood, 0.80)
  • background (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • snowflake clarity varies between frames (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • snowflake clarity varies between frames

Animation Summary

  • The snowflake clarity varies between frames while text and background remain static.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • four identical
  • text above snowflakes

Dense Caption

Four identical grid layouts of red pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas' positioned above white snowflake shapes. The snowflakes have six arms with varying branch patterns and are set against a solid light blue background. Each layout shows the same arrangement but with slight variations in snowflake clarity across different frames.

Description

  • Red pixelated text 'Merry Christmas' overlaid on white snowflake icons against a light blue background.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712091346481458882019

Mood

  • festive
  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated merry christmas
  • snowflakes light blue background
  • pixelated holiday text
  • festive digital art

Objects

  • text
  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • Christmas

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • 'Merry Christmas'
  • white snowflakes
  • light blue background
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • pixelation
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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
200712091346481458882019
Archive entry
200712091346481458882019.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#200712091346481458882019.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712091346481458882019.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016