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Static pixel art image with blue background and white snow-like dots, displaying text "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas" in black blocky font.

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Static pixel art image with blue background and white snow-like dots, displaying text "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas" in black blocky font.

Static pixel art image with blue background and white snow-like dots, displaying text "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas" in black blocky font. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • three-line layout
  • scattered background elements

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated background contains scattered white square pixels resembling falling snow. Three lines of black blocky text: first line reads "Ho Ho Ho", second line reads "Merry", third line reads "Christmas" with the 'i' and part of 's' showing as grayed-out or corrupted pixels. Text is centered horizontally, each word on its own line. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Static pixel art image with blue background and white snow-like dots, displaying text "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas" in black blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712081334582032920476

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ho ho ho merry christmas pixel art
  • blue background snow text
  • christmas holiday icon
  • pixelated retro digital text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text 'Christmas' has visible pixel corruption on the 'i' and part of 's'

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Visible Text

  • Ho Ho Ho
  • Merry
  • Christmas

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snow dots
  • black blocky text
  • Ho Ho Ho
  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712081334582032920476
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
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/8557c0bc68895119a5dab09d95e619db7b6b2005e2afb9263efdbda58d23e00c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
8557c0bc68895119
SHA-256
8557c0bc68895119a5dab09d95e619db7b6b2005e2afb9263efdbda58d23e00c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
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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Static pixel art image with blue background and white snow-like dots, displaying text "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas" in black blocky font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:20 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 704

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text
  • three-line layout
  • scattered background elements

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated background contains scattered white square pixels resembling falling snow. Three lines of black blocky text: first line reads "Ho Ho Ho", second line reads "Merry", third line reads "Christmas" with the 'i' and part of 's' showing as grayed-out or corrupted pixels. Text is centered horizontally, each word on its own line. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Static pixel art image with blue background and white snow-like dots, displaying text "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas" in black blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712081334582032920476

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • festive
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ho ho ho merry christmas pixel art
  • blue background snow text
  • christmas holiday icon
  • pixelated retro digital text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text 'Christmas' has visible pixel corruption on the 'i' and part of 's'

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • retro digital

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  • Ho Ho Ho
  • Merry
  • Christmas

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snow dots
  • black blocky text
  • Ho Ho Ho
  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • retro digital
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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
200712081334582032920476
Archive entry
200712081334582032920476.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#200712081334582032920476.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712081334582032920476.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016