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A static pixel art image with red text on a dark brown background, surrounded by green leafy borders and small glowing green dots.

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A static pixel art image with red text on a dark brown background, surrounded by green leafy borders and small glowing green dots.

A static pixel art image with red text on a dark brown background, surrounded by green leafy borders and small glowing green dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • bordered text blocks

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the same text: 'merry christmas ho ho ho happy holidays' in red pixelated font. The background is dark brown with a subtle pattern of lighter brown squares. Green leafy borders frame each panel, and small glowing green dots are scattered around the edges. There are no visible animations or changes between panels.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with red text on a dark brown background, surrounded by green leafy borders and small glowing green dots.

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
  • 200812021417191620311564

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas ho ho ho happy holidays
  • red text dark brown background green borders
  • pixel art holiday greeting
  • festive text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid festive text

Visible Text

  • merry
  • christmas
  • ho ho ho
  • happy
  • holidays

Wordwall

  • red text
  • dark brown background
  • green leafy borders
  • glowing green dots
  • merry christmas ho ho ho happy holidays
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812021417191620311564
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
786 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b50d3eee67c6e4178f2daf86378854e3753fc647bd996996c5e2e808c240f8bb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
b50d3eee67c6e417
SHA-256
b50d3eee67c6e4178f2daf86378854e3753fc647bd996996c5e2e808c240f8bb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074338

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with red text on a dark brown background, surrounded by green leafy borders and small glowing green dots.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 647

Review tags

  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark brown
  • green

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • bordered text blocks

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the same text: 'merry christmas ho ho ho happy holidays' in red pixelated font. The background is dark brown with a subtle pattern of lighter brown squares. Green leafy borders frame each panel, and small glowing green dots are scattered around the edges. There are no visible animations or changes between panels.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with red text on a dark brown background, surrounded by green leafy borders and small glowing green dots.

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
  • 200812021417191620311564

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas ho ho ho happy holidays
  • red text dark brown background green borders
  • pixel art holiday greeting
  • festive text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid festive text

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • merry
  • christmas
  • ho ho ho
  • happy
  • holidays

Wordwall

  • red text
  • dark brown background
  • green leafy borders
  • glowing green dots
  • merry christmas ho ho ho happy holidays
  • pixelated font
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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
200812021417191620311564
Archive entry
200812021417191620311564.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812021417191620311564.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812021417191620311564.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016