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Pixelated snowflake icon with 'winter' text on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants.

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Pixelated snowflake icon with 'winter' text on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants.

Pixelated snowflake icon with 'winter' text on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays four identical pixelated white snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each snowflake has six arms and is positioned above the word "winter" rendered in black pixelated font. The phrase "only here for a while" appears in black pixelated text above each snowflake, repeated across all quadrants. Snowflakes have consistent shape with minor variations between positions; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated snowflake icon with 'winter' text on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan snowflake winter text
  • only here for a while snowflake
  • pixelated winter icon
  • cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with repeated patterns
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan background

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • only here for a while
  • winter

Visually Supported Entities

  • winter
  • snowflakes

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated white snowflakes
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • "winter" text
  • "only here for a while" text
  • black pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080328172601150975118
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88d86644c321efc8cfc488cfbe4424b62d801426793e6ff804143ba11de4416d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
88d86644c321efc8
SHA-256
88d86644c321efc8cfc488cfbe4424b62d801426793e6ff804143ba11de4416d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108076

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911170onnx/unsafe0.108076onnx/nsfw0.067545onnx/nsfl0.040531
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated snowflake icon with 'winter' text on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:54 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,112 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 608

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • seasonal (mood, 0.80)
  • transient (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays four identical pixelated white snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each snowflake has six arms and is positioned above the word "winter" rendered in black pixelated font. The phrase "only here for a while" appears in black pixelated text above each snowflake, repeated across all quadrants. Snowflakes have consistent shape with minor variations between positions; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated snowflake icon with 'winter' text on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • seasonal
  • transient

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan snowflake winter text
  • only here for a while snowflake
  • pixelated winter icon
  • cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with repeated patterns
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan background

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • only here for a while
  • winter

Visually Supported Entities

  • winter
  • snowflakes

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated white snowflakes
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • "winter" text
  • "only here for a while" text
  • black 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
20080328172601150975118
Archive entry
20080328172601150975118.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080328172601150975118.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080328172601150975118.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016