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Blue background with white snowflake and dotted line border, four instances of the word 'winter' in black pixelated text.

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Blue background with white snowflake and dotted line border, four instances of the word 'winter' in black pixelated text.

Blue background with white snowflake and dotted line border, four instances of the word 'winter' in black pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four quadrants with text
  • bordered frame

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White snowflakes at all four corners and center top/bottom/left/right positions. Dotted white lines form a square border around the perimeter. Four identical black pixelated words 'winter' positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. Snowflakes are 4-petaled with central dots. Border consists of short horizontal/vertical dotted segments connecting corner snowflakes.

Description

  • Blue background with white snowflake and dotted line border, four instances of the word 'winter' in black pixelated text.

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
  • 200802161241421670760621

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • winter snowflake blue border
  • pixel art winter text four quadrants
  • blue background white snowflakes dotted border
  • four 'winter' texts pixelated

Visible Text

  • winter

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snowflakes
  • dotted white border
  • four 'winter' texts
  • pixelated text
  • solid blue field

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802161241421670760621
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
388 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
8e288eb69d58eabf
SHA-256
8e288eb69d58eabf962a2e939af3c2ad28d0dd8897b47adb25888dddcea15375
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097656

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white snowflake and dotted line border, four instances of the word 'winter' in black pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 22:47 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,966 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 636

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • seasonal (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four quadrants with text
  • bordered frame

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White snowflakes at all four corners and center top/bottom/left/right positions. Dotted white lines form a square border around the perimeter. Four identical black pixelated words 'winter' positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. Snowflakes are 4-petaled with central dots. Border consists of short horizontal/vertical dotted segments connecting corner snowflakes.

Description

  • Blue background with white snowflake and dotted line border, four instances of the word 'winter' in black pixelated text.

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
  • 200802161241421670760621

Mood

  • festive
  • seasonal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • winter snowflake blue border
  • pixel art winter text four quadrants
  • blue background white snowflakes dotted border
  • four 'winter' texts pixelated

Objects

  • snowflakes
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • snowflakes
  • text

Visible Text

  • winter

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white snowflakes
  • dotted white border
  • four 'winter' texts
  • pixelated text
  • solid blue field
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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
200802161241421670760621
Archive entry
200802161241421670760621.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802161241421670760621.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802161241421670760621.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016