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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with animated snowflake borders, showing repeated phrases 'i love the snow <3' in black font.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with animated snowflake borders, showing repeated phrases 'i love the snow <3' in black font.

Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with animated snowflake borders, showing repeated phrases 'i love the snow <3' in black font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-left snowflake shifts position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Top-left snowflake shifts position between frames while other elements remain static.

Composition

  • central vertical snowflake
  • right-edge horizontal snowflake

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains black pixelated text reading 'i love the snow' followed by '<3'. A vertical column of white pixelated snowflakes separates left and right columns, with additional snowflakes along the right edge. Snowflake borders animate: top-left snowflake shifts position between frames while other snowflakes remain static. Text remains unchanged across all visible states.

Description

Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with animated snowflake borders, showing repeated phrases 'i love the snow <3' in black font.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008011813375038013234

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love the snow <3 cyan background
  • snowflakes animated text
  • pixelated 'i love the snow' cyan
  • white snowflakes black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal snowflake row
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical snowflake column
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: right-edge horizontal snowflake row
  • quarantined composition: central vertical snowflake column
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid white snowflakes black text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 'i love the snow' cyan grid
  • quarantined retrieval: snowflakes animated text panels

Visible Text

  • i love the snow <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black text
  • white snowflakes
  • 'i love the snow <3'
  • vertical snowflake
  • horizontal snowflake

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008011813375038013234
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3a30f2d013a6ff4d6de6820d69a7ac72f87648269182fc3a94d4bc9fbc879be.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
a3a30f2d013a6ff4
SHA-256
a3a30f2d013a6ff4d6de6820d69a7ac72f87648269182fc3a94d4bc9fbc879be
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096273

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with animated snowflake borders, showing repeated phrases 'i love the snow <3' in black font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:12 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,835 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 632

Review tags

  • snowflakes animate top left position shift (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • snowflake borders (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • snowflakes animate (top-left position shift)

Animation

  • top-left snowflake shifts position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Top-left snowflake shifts position between frames while other elements remain static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central vertical snowflake
  • right-edge horizontal snowflake

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains black pixelated text reading 'i love the snow' followed by '<3'. A vertical column of white pixelated snowflakes separates left and right columns, with additional snowflakes along the right edge. Snowflake borders animate: top-left snowflake shifts position between frames while other snowflakes remain static. Text remains unchanged across all visible states.

Description

Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with animated snowflake borders, showing repeated phrases 'i love the snow <3' in black font.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008011813375038013234

Mood

  • cheerful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love the snow <3 cyan background
  • snowflakes animated text
  • pixelated 'i love the snow' cyan
  • white snowflakes black text

Objects

  • text
  • snowflake borders

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: vertical snowflake column
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: right-edge horizontal snowflake row
  • quarantined composition: central vertical snowflake column
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid white snowflakes black text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 'i love the snow' cyan grid
  • quarantined retrieval: snowflakes animated text panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • i love the snow <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black text
  • white snowflakes
  • 'i love the snow <3'
  • vertical snowflake
  • horizontal snowflake
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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
2008011813375038013234
Archive entry
2008011813375038013234.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#2008011813375038013234.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008011813375038013234.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016