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Green background with black 'Merry Christmas' text and red pixelated decorations; two identical horizontal sections separated by a red border.

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Green background with black 'Merry Christmas' text and red pixelated decorations; two identical horizontal sections separated by a red border.

Green background with black 'Merry Christmas' text and red pixelated decorations; two identical horizontal sections separated by a red border. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • two identical horizontal sections
  • text centered
  • decorations above and below text
  • solid red border separating sections

Dense Caption

Green background with black pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas' in two identical horizontal sections. Each section has red pixelated decorations: small star-like shapes above the text and a red border below the text. The top section's decorations include small red star-like shapes above the text and a red border below the text. The bottom section's decorations include small red star-like shapes above the text and a red border below the text. The red border is a solid horizontal line of red pixels separating the two sections. The text is rendered in a pixelated font with black pixels on a green background. The red decorations are small, scattered red pixels forming star-like shapes above the text and a solid red border below the text. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

Green background with black 'Merry Christmas' text and red pixelated decorations; two identical horizontal sections separated by a red border.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • green background merry christmas
  • red decorations merry christmas
  • pixelated merry christmas text
  • retro merry christmas icon
  • two sections merry christmas
  • green black red merry christmas
  • merry christmas holiday icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black text
  • red decorations
  • Merry Christmas
  • pixelated font
  • star-like shapes
  • horizontal border
  • two sections
  • identical sections
  • retro pixel art
  • limited color palette
  • small red pixels
  • solid red border
  • text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812171444451852908998
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/961f26b239f1775a23338ab330bd89d2726cd50386571a7691a8ad252a2b7afd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
961f26b239f1775a
SHA-256
961f26b239f1775a23338ab330bd89d2726cd50386571a7691a8ad252a2b7afd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127843

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with black 'Merry Christmas' text and red pixelated decorations; two identical horizontal sections separated by a red border.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,690 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 814

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • two identical horizontal sections
  • text centered
  • decorations above and below text
  • solid red border separating sections

Dense Caption

Green background with black pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas' in two identical horizontal sections. Each section has red pixelated decorations: small star-like shapes above the text and a red border below the text. The top section's decorations include small red star-like shapes above the text and a red border below the text. The bottom section's decorations include small red star-like shapes above the text and a red border below the text. The red border is a solid horizontal line of red pixels separating the two sections. The text is rendered in a pixelated font with black pixels on a green background. The red decorations are small, scattered red pixels forming star-like shapes above the text and a solid red border below the text. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

Green background with black 'Merry Christmas' text and red pixelated decorations; two identical horizontal sections separated by a red border.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • green background merry christmas
  • red decorations merry christmas
  • pixelated merry christmas text
  • retro merry christmas icon
  • two sections merry christmas
  • green black red merry christmas
  • merry christmas holiday icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

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  • black text
  • red decorations
  • Merry Christmas
  • pixelated font
  • star-like shapes
  • horizontal border
  • two sections
  • identical sections
  • retro pixel art
  • limited color palette
  • small red pixels
  • solid red border
  • text layout
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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
200812171444451852908998
Archive entry
200812171444451852908998.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812171444451852908998.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812171444451852908998.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016