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Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a

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Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a

Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four instances appear static with identical content across observations.

Composition

  • four identical elements
  • two-by-two arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright blue solid background. Four distinct white pixel-art snowflakes each have six arms; the top-left and bottom-right snowflakes are fully visible while the top-right and bottom-left show partial visibility due to cropping. Black pixelated sans-serif text "Merry christmas!" appears below each snowflake, with all letters in lowercase except for the initial capital M and exclamation mark punctuation. The image is a static grid of four identical elements arranged two-by-two without visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a

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
  • 200812041224181538047133

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas snowflake blue background pixel art
  • white snowflake black text blue
  • pixelated merry christmas text six-armed snowflakes
  • blue background white snowflakes merry christmas exclamation mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all four instances appear static with no visible motion changes.
  • quarantined description: Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: static grid
  • quarantined retrieval: white snowflake black text blue grid

Visible Text

  • Merry christmas!

Wordwall

  • white snowflakes
  • blue background
  • black pixel font
  • "Merry christmas!" text
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • pixelated art style
  • exclamation mark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812041224181538047133
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
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
bf6fa27e5318dfd8
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,502 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • snowflake (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four instances appear static with identical content across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical elements
  • two-by-two arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright blue solid background. Four distinct white pixel-art snowflakes each have six arms; the top-left and bottom-right snowflakes are fully visible while the top-right and bottom-left show partial visibility due to cropping. Black pixelated sans-serif text "Merry christmas!" appears below each snowflake, with all letters in lowercase except for the initial capital M and exclamation mark punctuation. The image is a static grid of four identical elements arranged two-by-two without visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a

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
  • 200812041224181538047133

Mood

  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas snowflake blue background pixel art
  • white snowflake black text blue
  • pixelated merry christmas text six-armed snowflakes
  • blue background white snowflakes merry christmas exclamation mark

Objects

  • snowflake

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all four instances appear static with no visible motion changes.
  • quarantined description: Pixelated white snowflake on bright blue background with "Merry christmas!" text in black pixel font, four identical instances arranged in a grid.
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Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • snowflake
  • text

Visible Text

  • Merry christmas!

Wordwall

  • white snowflakes
  • blue background
  • black pixel font
  • "Merry christmas!" text
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • pixelated art style
  • exclamation mark
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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
200812041224181538047133
Archive entry
200812041224181538047133.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#200812041224181538047133.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812041224181538047133.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016