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Black background with cyan dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text 'merry' and 'x-mas' in white pixelated font.

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Black background with cyan dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text 'merry' and 'x-mas' in white pixelated font.

Black background with cyan dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text 'merry' and 'x-mas' in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • bordered frame
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background bordered by cyan dashed lines forming a grid. Cyan asterisk shapes decorate the corners and midpoints of each side. Within the grid, four cells contain repeating text: two rows display 'merry' (with an extra 'r') followed by 'x-mas', all in white pixelated font. The layout is symmetrical with identical content across both columns.

Description

  • Black background with cyan dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text 'merry' and 'x-mas' in white pixelated font.

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
  • 200712081454491959481241

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry x-mas cyan border
  • pixelated holiday text
  • cyan asterisk border black background
  • repeating merry x-mas text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four cells
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: text-centered cells
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated holiday text grid

Visible Text

  • merry
  • x-mas

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan dotted border
  • cyan asterisk accents
  • white pixelated text
  • 'merry'
  • 'x-mas'
  • symmetrical
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712081454491959481241
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
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7b78be52451352848e9e25d2c50d16eeb3923803353047472e3f43035da2cf32.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
7b78be5245135284
SHA-256
7b78be52451352848e9e25d2c50d16eeb3923803353047472e3f43035da2cf32
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
1072
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084238

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with cyan dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text 'merry' and 'x-mas' in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:22 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,695 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • bordered frame
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background bordered by cyan dashed lines forming a grid. Cyan asterisk shapes decorate the corners and midpoints of each side. Within the grid, four cells contain repeating text: two rows display 'merry' (with an extra 'r') followed by 'x-mas', all in white pixelated font. The layout is symmetrical with identical content across both columns.

Description

  • Black background with cyan dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text 'merry' and 'x-mas' in white pixelated font.

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
  • 200712081454491959481241

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry x-mas cyan border
  • pixelated holiday text
  • cyan asterisk border black background
  • repeating merry x-mas text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four cells
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: text-centered cells
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated holiday text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • based
  • repetitive text layout

Visible Text

  • merry
  • x-mas

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan dotted border
  • cyan asterisk accents
  • white pixelated text
  • 'merry'
  • 'x-mas'
  • symmetrical
  • four
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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
200712081454491959481241
Archive entry
200712081454491959481241.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#200712081454491959481241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712081454491959481241.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016