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Green square with white border displays 'Merry Christmas! HO HO HO' text and small white snowflake in bottom-right corner.

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Green square with white border displays 'Merry Christmas! HO HO HO' text and small white snowflake in bottom-right corner.

Green square with white border displays 'Merry Christmas! HO HO HO' text and small white snowflake in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between

Composition

  • text centered
  • snowflake bottom-right

Dense Caption

Green square background with white border contains black pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas!' on first line, 'HO HO HO' on second line. Small white pixelated snowflake icon in bottom-right corner. Four identical panels arranged in 2x2 grid. Text and snowflake positions consistent across all panels. Pixelated font style. No visible animation changes between panels.

Description

  • Green square with white border displays 'Merry Christmas! HO HO HO' text and small white snowflake in bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green square merry christmas ho ho ho
  • merry christmas ho ho ho pixelated text
  • green square white border snowflake
  • merry christmas

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes between panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid merry christmas

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas!
  • HO HO HO

Wordwall

  • green square
  • white border
  • black pixelated text
  • Merry Christmas!
  • HO HO HO
  • white snowflake
  • pixelated font
  • consistent text
  • small snowflake

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081129110028109581969
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
405 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/ad75854f543cdf634e8d4257bea7efde9e147222fb3b93156aeb0e959d3cd555.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
ad75854f543cdf63
SHA-256
ad75854f543cdf634e8d4257bea7efde9e147222fb3b93156aeb0e959d3cd555
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109144

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green square with white border displays 'Merry Christmas! HO HO HO' text and small white snowflake in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,181 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 593

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • snowflake (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text centered
  • snowflake bottom-right

Dense Caption

Green square background with white border contains black pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas!' on first line, 'HO HO HO' on second line. Small white pixelated snowflake icon in bottom-right corner. Four identical panels arranged in 2x2 grid. Text and snowflake positions consistent across all panels. Pixelated font style. No visible animation changes between panels.

Description

  • Green square with white border displays 'Merry Christmas! HO HO HO' text and small white snowflake in bottom-right corner.

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

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green square merry christmas ho ho ho
  • merry christmas ho ho ho pixelated text
  • green square white border snowflake
  • merry christmas

Objects

  • snowflake

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes between panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid merry christmas

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas!
  • HO HO HO

Wordwall

  • green square
  • white border
  • black pixelated text
  • Merry Christmas!
  • HO HO HO
  • white snowflake
  • pixelated font
  • consistent text
  • small 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
20081129110028109581969
Archive entry
20081129110028109581969.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081129110028109581969.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081129110028109581969.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016