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Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a , surrounded by pink asterisks at corners

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Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a , surrounded by pink asterisks at corners

Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a , surrounded by pink asterisks at corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image with repeated text and elements

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeating text
  • corner and side symbols

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. Black pixelated text reading "let it snow" repeats across the top, middle, and bottom sections in three horizontal rows of six repetitions each. Purple dashed lines form a vertical and horizontal crosshair pattern intersecting near the center. Pink asterisk symbols appear at all four corners and along the midpoints of each side. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a , surrounded by pink asterisks at corners

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
  • 2007121914383564067771

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background let it snow pixel art
  • let it snow asterisk
  • pixelated text red holiday icon
  • repeating "let it snow"

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image
  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a grid, surrounded by pink asterisks at corners.
  • quarantined animationSummary: no animation observed; static image with repeated text and grid elements
  • quarantined wordwall: purple dashed lines forming grid
  • quarantined wordwall: "let it snow" repeated six times per row
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating "let it snow" grid
  • quarantined retrieval: let it snow asterisk grid

Visible Text

  • let it snow

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • "let it snow" repeated six times per
  • purple dashed lines forming
  • pink asterisks at corners and sides

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007121914383564067771
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
477 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a2389e387b39680e82b88eb37a0bf8c198792a9fa06496a967b208b940addae2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
a2389e387b39680e
SHA-256
a2389e387b39680e82b88eb37a0bf8c198792a9fa06496a967b208b940addae2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129514

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a , surrounded by pink asterisks at corners

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:07 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,261 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 643

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image with repeated text and elements

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeating text
  • corner and side symbols

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. Black pixelated text reading "let it snow" repeats across the top, middle, and bottom sections in three horizontal rows of six repetitions each. Purple dashed lines form a vertical and horizontal crosshair pattern intersecting near the center. Pink asterisk symbols appear at all four corners and along the midpoints of each side. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a , surrounded by pink asterisks at corners

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
  • 2007121914383564067771

Mood

  • festive
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background let it snow pixel art
  • let it snow asterisk
  • pixelated text red holiday icon
  • repeating "let it snow"

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image
  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated black text "let it snow" and purple dashed lines forming a grid, surrounded by pink asterisks at corners.
  • quarantined animationSummary: no animation observed; static image with repeated text and grid elements
  • quarantined wordwall: purple dashed lines forming grid
  • quarantined wordwall: "let it snow" repeated six times per row
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating "let it snow" grid
  • quarantined retrieval: let it snow asterisk grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • let it snow

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • "let it snow" repeated six times per
  • purple dashed lines forming
  • pink asterisks at corners and sides
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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
2007121914383564067771
Archive entry
2007121914383564067771.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#2007121914383564067771.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007121914383564067771.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016