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Pixelated green text 'merry christmas' with Santa sleigh and reindeer animations on black background.

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Pixelated green text 'merry christmas' with Santa sleigh and reindeer animations on black background.

Pixelated green text 'merry christmas' with Santa sleigh and reindeer animations on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

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Animation Summary

The animation changes the number of reindeer per sleigh from four to three between frames while maintaining consistent text and background elements.

Composition

  • two horizontal
  • centered text
  • symmetrical borders

Dense Caption

Black background features two horizontal rows of pixel art. Top row shows white Santa sleighs pulled by four reindeer; bottom row shows sleighs with three reindeer. Green pixel text reads 'merry christmas' in both rows, with the second instance having a partial 'christmas' spelling. White cityscape-like borders appear above and below the main content. The animation changes the number of reindeer per sleigh from four to three between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated green text 'merry christmas' with Santa sleigh and reindeer animations on black background.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712011928451664037090

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • sleigh reindeer green text
  • pixel art holiday animation
  • green text black background sleigh

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • sleigh
  • reindeer
  • green text
  • black background
  • pixel art
  • cityscape border
  • merry christmas
  • partial 'christmas' spelling

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712011928451664037090
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af637097c68767022fb28679c9c52d4811fe57c0de9259443f3e11c7f12a8634.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
af637097c6876702
SHA-256
af637097c68767022fb28679c9c52d4811fe57c0de9259443f3e11c7f12a8634
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077809

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green text 'merry christmas' with Santa sleigh and reindeer animations on black background.

Reviewed
July 29, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
54
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 621

Review tags

  • sleigh pulls reindeer (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • cityscape border (object, 0.80)
  • sleigh (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • cityscape (subject, 0.80)
  • reindeer (subject, 0.80)
  • santa sleigh (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sleigh pulls reindeer

Animation Summary

The animation changes the number of reindeer per sleigh from four to three between frames while maintaining consistent text and background elements.

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • two horizontal
  • centered text
  • symmetrical borders

Dense Caption

Black background features two horizontal rows of pixel art. Top row shows white Santa sleighs pulled by four reindeer; bottom row shows sleighs with three reindeer. Green pixel text reads 'merry christmas' in both rows, with the second instance having a partial 'christmas' spelling. White cityscape-like borders appear above and below the main content. The animation changes the number of reindeer per sleigh from four to three between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated green text 'merry christmas' with Santa sleigh and reindeer animations on black background.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712011928451664037090

Mood

  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • sleigh reindeer green text
  • pixel art holiday animation
  • green text black background sleigh

Objects

  • sleigh
  • reindeer
  • text
  • cityscape border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two horizontal rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • Santa sleigh
  • reindeer
  • cityscape

Visible Text

  • merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • sleigh
  • reindeer
  • green text
  • black background
  • pixel art
  • cityscape border
  • merry christmas
  • partial 'christmas' spelling
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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
200712011928451664037090
Archive entry
200712011928451664037090.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200712011928451664037090.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712011928451664037090.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016